Skin Hunger
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Ava should be living her dream as the drummer for Escaping Indigo. The problem is, she’s secretly in love with her bandmate, Tuck. But he’s fallen for someone else. Being a drummer is still the best, but for Ava, every day is also a reminder of what she can’t have.
With her grandmother moving into assisted living, Ava figures it’s a good time to head home and help out. And if it lets her get some distance from Tuck and his girlfriend, all the better. But Ava hasn’t visited her family in years, and home isn’t really home anymore. Instead, it’s the place she’s been running from, full of memories of everything her parents wanted for her—and everything she didn’t want for herself.
But on the airplane, Ava meets Cara, and the two women feel an immediate connection. And when they bump into each other a second time, it seems like fate. Cara offers Ava something she’s never had—someone to love who loves her back. But to be with Cara, Ava may have to change her whole life around, and that’s something she’s not sure she’s ready for.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This note-perfect sequel to Escaping Indigo builds on the first book's strengths and delivers on all its promises. Drummer Ava is on a plane flying toward her grandmother, who needs help moving into an assisted living facility, and away from everything she loves her home, her successful musical career, and her best friend and fellow bandmate, Tuck when she meets Cara, a kindly dancer who just might upend everything. Ava relatably struggles with a sense of validation for her identity in several directions; she doesn't feel she's "bi enough"; she's not very close with her well-meaning, conventional family; and she can't share her feelings for Tuck without risking the loss of their relationship and perhaps even wrecking the band. The opportunity for romantic happiness with Cara, and for a relationship that's more than a gratifying one-night stand, forces Ava to confront her doubts and insecurities and find the true value of the life she has. Lang's novel is gentle and tenderly crafted, with earned happiness in an ending that's carefully designed to fit these characters and their lives.
