Some Mistakes Were Made
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Publisher Description
Sarah Dessen meets Adam Silvera in the debut YA romance everyone is talking about!
“A breathtaking tour de force of angst and longing. Heartbreaking, painfully romantic, and deeply human.” —STEPHANIE GARBER, #1 bestselling author of Caraval
“A novel you can make yourself at home in, with characters so real it feels like you’ve known them for ages.” —JENNA EVANS WELCH, bestselling author of Love & Gelato
“This book comes with its own aching heartbeat. Be forewarned, it’s stronger than it looks.” —STACEY LEE, award-winning author of The Downstairs Girl
Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when a rash decision throws Ellis’s life—and her relationship with Easton—into chaos, she’s forced to move halfway across the country, far from everything she’s ever known.
Now Ellis hasn’t spoken to Easton in a year, and maybe it’s better that way; maybe eventually the Easton-shaped hole in her heart will heal.
But when Easton’s mom invites her home for a visit, Ellis finds herself tangled up in the web of heartache, betrayal, and anger she left behind . . . and with the boy she never stopped loving.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Using an intimate first-person narrative and alternating between the past and present, Dwyer celebrates found family in this emotionally layered and strikingly romantic debut. With her father in and out of jail and her mother often disappearing without notice, Ellis Truman spent most of her Indiana childhood with classmate Easton Albrey and his family. After taking Ellis, then 11, under their wing, the Albreys—which include Easton's mother, father, and brothers Dixon and Tucker—essentially raise her as their own. When she's 15, Ellis realizes that she's fallen in love with Easton, but following an incident, Ellis, now 18, is living with her aunt in California. Though she and Easton haven't spoken since she left, Tucker encourages Ellis to accompany him home for their mother's 50th birthday. Ellis's melancholy present, juxtaposed with scenes from her joyful past, provide insight into her struggles navigating conflicting loyalties to her biological family and the Albreys. The narrative's alternating timelines and the slowly unfolding mystery behind Ellis and Easton's fallout introduces intrigue and palpable tension between intricately characterized, presumably all white, characters. Ages 14–up.
