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| ISBN: | 0755393031 (ISBN13: 9780755393039) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Tanya Byrne
Kindle Edition | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.94 | 1813 Users | 258 Reviews
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They say I'm evil. The police. The newspapers. The girls from school who shake their heads on the six o’clock news and say they always knew there was something not quite right about me. And everyone believes it. Including you. But you don't know. You don't know who I used to be. Who I could have been. Awaiting trial at Archway Young Offenders Institution, Emily Koll is going to tell her side of the story for the first time. Heart-Shaped Bruise is a compulsive and moving novel about infamy, identity and how far a person might go to seek revenge.
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| Title | : | Heart-Shaped Bruise |
| Author | : | Tanya Byrne |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 2012 by Headline |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Mystery. Contemporary. Crime. Fiction. Thriller |
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Heart-Shaped Bruise is one of those novels that, although received a lot of press and internet buzz when it was first published (in early 2012), I knew next to nothing about. I knew that my fellow book bloggers raved about it. I knew many of them named it as one of their favourite books of 2012, which is high praise coming from people who often read 100 or 200 books per year. And I knew that reviewers called it 'compulsive', 'gripping' and 'compelling'. I finally decided to pick it up, afterI adore teen thrillers particularly those that deal with mental health, a subject that is close to my heart, so I was really eager to read Heart-Shaped Bruise and had high expectations from the beginning. I was only a few pages in when I actually said out loud to myself THIS is going to be a good book. And Im pleased to say that my early judgement was spot on.Tanya Byrne, wow, I cannot believe that this is her debut novel. This is one of the most well written books that Ive read this year. From
I almost didn't finish this book, it just didn't grab me even though it had great reviews. It is written from the perspective of Emily whose father is a criminal and was stabbed by Juliet in self defence. Juliet goes on a witness protection programme and becomes Nancy, Emily becomes Rose and befriends Nancy so that she can get revenge. I found it confusing and didn't connect to characters.
It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out, like if you cut me open, all you would find would be smoke. No heart. No bones. There was nothing left, just the anger. It followed me everywhere. It sat on my bed and watched me sleep and when I had to eat, it looked at me across the table. Heart-Shaped Bruise sure did one thing right, and that's anger.Have you ever felt so angry that you wanted to burn something?If
I love thrillers, in case you haven't noticed, and I'm also a fan of Sophie Hannah and YA novels. Due to this, I simply had to get my hands on Heart-Shaped Bruise. I mean, did you read the synopsis? Its pretty awesome. Now done, Im not sure if you can call this a thriller, because it doesnt really have a plot. I mean, it does...kind of, but its never fully embraced.Heart-Shaped Bruise has two stories that it presents to the reader, the before and the after. Before is when Emily Koll is on the
'There's more than one side to a story, and this is mine...I'll be me and you be the stranger on the bus.'Eighteen-year-old Emily Koll has written her story in a notebook, which we are immediately told was found in one of the rooms when the psychiatric unit of Archway Young Offenders Institution was closed. The story Emily has to tell is bursting out of her, weighing heavily on her, and there is a real immediacy about the fact that she has to get it out of her, onto paper, as if to a stranger:'I
I picked this book up off the library shelf, sat down in the conveniently placed chair and devoured it in three hours flat. If that doesn't convince you that you must read it as soon as humanly possible, then I don't know what will.Some people will think they've read this book before - a first person account of a criminal awaiting trial, but you haven't read it. You haven't read it at all. Emily is an incredible narrator. She will make you laugh. She will make you gasp (with horror). And, most
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