Wrong in All the Right Ways
A Novel
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Publisher Description
"Brownlee writes with all the breathless excitement and excruciating longing of a first love, further complicated by the forbidden nature of their romance. . . One of the most believable love triangles on the page in ages."--Entertainment Weekly
An attraction between foster siblings sets fire to forbidden love in this contemporary reimagining of Wuthering Heights.
Emma’s life has always gone according to her very careful plans. But things take a turn toward the unexpected when she falls in love for the first time with the one person in the world who’s off-limits: her new foster brother, the gorgeous and tormented Dylan McAndrews.
Meanwhile, Emma’s AP English class is reading Wuthering Heights, and she’s been assigned to echo Emily Bronte’s style in an epistolary format. With irrepressible feelings and no one to confide in, she’s got a lot to write about. Distraught by the escalating intensity of their mutual attraction, Emma and Dylan try to constrain their romance to the page—for fear of threatening Dylan’s chances at being adopted into a loving home. But the strength of first love is all-consuming, and they soon get enveloped in a passionate, secretive relationship with a very uncertain outcome.
Tiffany Brownlee's Wrong in All the Right Ways marks the exciting debut of a fresh voice in contemporary teen fiction.
Christy Ottaviano Books
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her YA debut, Brownlee models the ill-advised love affair between her protagonist, Emma, and Emma's foster brother, Dylan, after Catherine and Heathcliff's forbidden love in Wuthering Heights. When Emma's parents bring home her new foster sibling, she assumes he will be close in age to her seven-year-old brother, Matthew. But Dylan is Emma's peer, and attraction immediately strikes. The duo's halfhearted attempts to keep apart quickly find them involved in a clandestine romance that could threaten Dylan's adoption. Meanwhile, Emma is reading Wuthering Heights for class and writing letters to Catherine, confessing about her growing feelings and romance with Dylan, the secret they are keeping from her parents, and her attempt to protect this secret by openly dating her new best friend's brother. Soon, Emma is enduring Dylan's Heathcliff-like mood swings, and tragedy looms over them both. Emma's voice is frank and intelligent, though the story's obsession with Dylan can make other characters and aspects of Emma's life seem like filler. For readers looking for star-crossed romance and melodrama, Emma's rocky relationship with Dylan is sure to satisfy. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
17 mag made me read it!
Love the realness of this book, I just couldn’t put down! Thank you seventeen magazine for recommending! #hopelessromantic