Series or stand alone: stand alone
Genre: young adult, fiction
Copyright: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 278
Tagline: I don’t believe anything good can come from this.
Blurb: Riley Rose, atheist and all-round rebel, has been tricked by her father and his irritating new girlfriend into spending her summer at Spirit Ranch Holiday Camp.
There Riley meets Dylan Luck, recent paraplegic and fellow misfit-on-a-mission, and together they turn the camp upside down. Truths are told, secrets revealed and Riley’s dreaded week away turns out to have life-changing significance...
First line: I am the maniac behind the wheel of a stolen dune buggy.
Reason for reading: To challenge myself. I don’t do religion and this is set in a Christian camp.
Cover: I like both UK and Australian covers. The US cover really irritates me because Riley is supposed to be overweight and this cover does not depict that at all.
Aus vs US vs UK
Verdict: good.
This surprised me as I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. It was a very enjoyable read and not at preachy like I feared.
Further thoughts can be found at my journal.
Currently reading: Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver.