#BLOGTOUR #REVIEW – What Beauty There is by Cory Anderson @coryanderswrites @The_WriteReads @penguinplatform #WhatBeautyThereIs #prdgreads #TheWriteReads

Today is my stop on the blog tour for What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson, thank you to Dave at The Write Reads for organising it and inviting me to take part, thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 368

Synopsis: When everything you love is in danger, how long can you keep running to survive?

Life can be brutal
Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.

Jack knew it
Jack Dahl has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he’d die for. Their mother is gone, and their funds are quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. 

So did I
Ava lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. 

Did I feel the flutter of wings when Jack and I met? Did I sense the coming tornado?
But now Ava wants to break the rules – to let Jack in and open her heart. Then she discovers that Jack and her father are stalking the same money, and suddenly Ava is faced with a terrible choice: remain silent or speak out and help the brothers survive.

Looking back, I think I did . . .

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: this book was utterly heartbreaking but so, so good.

Jack come home one day to find his mum hanging from the ceiling fan in her bedroom, instead of calling the police he gets her down and buries her in the garden.

Now he has his little brother to look after, they’re on their own. Their dad is in prison…they have no money and only enough food in the house to last a couple of days, if that! – he tries to find a job but given who his dad is no one trusts him.

When the police come knocking Jack decides it’s time to leave, it’s only a matter of time before child services get involved and he can’t lose his brother, he’s the only person he has left.

What follows is a real eye opening journey where with the help of his new friend Ava, Jack does everything in his power to keep his brother safe, even putting his own life at risk several times.

This book is definitely not for the faint hearted, but it’a a powerful one that will stay with me for a long time.

🐧❤️