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Save Yourself

Kelly Braffet

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.37 | 4660 Users | 496 Reviews

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Title	:	Save Yourself
Author	:	Kelly Braffet
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 6th 2013 by Crown
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Dark. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Contemporary

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Save Yourself has the narrative flair of Gillian Flynn and Adam Ross, the scruffy appeal of Donald Ray Pollock, and the addictiveness of Breaking Bad.

Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing him to his breaking point.

Meanwhile, Layla's little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. She's become a prime target for her cruel classmates, not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents: Layla's bad-girl rep proves to be too huge a shadow for Verna, so she falls in with her sister's circle of outcasts and misfits whose world is far darker than she ever imagined.

Kelly Braffet's characters, indelibly portrayed and richly varied, are all on their own twisted paths to finding peace. The result is a novel of unnerving power-darkly compelling, addictively written, and shockingly honest.

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ISBN:	0385347340 (ISBN13: 9780385347341)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.37 From 4660 Users | 496 Reviews

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It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want. This book. Once upon a time, Kelly Braffet blew me away with her book Josie and Jack. It had left me tied up in knots and book-hungover for days. Braffet has a way of screwing with your head in the subtlest ways possible. Although some people compare her to Gillian Flynn, the latter author is more direct in screwing with your head. Braffet, on the other hand, does it subtly.

this book surprised me, in a good way. i don't know what i thought it was going to be, but i definitely wasn't expecting what i got. and i like that i can still be surprised by books, this far along in my reading career. it's the story of two brothers, patrick and mike, whose father is in jail after he killed a little boy when he was driving drunk. it's the story of mike's live-in girlfriend caro, whose desperate trapped boredom in her housewife-without-the-ring life leads her into patrick's bed

This could quite possibly inspire a "deliciously melodramatic" shelf, simply so it could be the single (so far) star of the show, or perhaps as Kelly's review suggests, a "psycho goth teen" shelf. I didn't have a whole lot of expectations going in but I was pleasantly surprised by the twists & turns here, particularly those concerning said psycho goth teens.

This book was dark and twisted, the characters broken and flawed. This is the only book Ive ever read where the POV changes from chapter to chapter where Ive equally loved all three narrators (Patrick, Verna, and Caro). Braffet is excellent at writing anti-heroes. Save Yourself made me feel things, and while I've been fortunate enough to not have personal experience with most of the book's subject material, Braffet made it quite easy for me to identify with each character. Caro's monologues in

I read this in one long sitting this afternoon. I am now tired and sad. Save Yourself is one of the saddest books I've ever read - the tragedy comes from the relentlessness of the sorrow. The reader spends time in the heads of three characters - Patrick, Verna, and Caro - and each is drawn with compassion and intelligence. It's about small people in a small town, whose decisions turn everything inside out. It might be more accurate to say that it's everyone's dithering that causes the problems,

I read this in one long sitting this afternoon. I am now tired and sad. Save Yourself is one of the saddest books I've ever read - the tragedy comes from the relentlessness of the sorrow. The reader spends time in the heads of three characters - Patrick, Verna, and Caro - and each is drawn with compassion and intelligence. It's about small people in a small town, whose decisions turn everything inside out. It might be more accurate to say that it's everyone's dithering that causes the problems,

Pure entertainment with no meaty reward. You will learn nothing from this book, about humanity, or yourself, or timespace, or plants, even, you definitely won't learn anything about plants. The writing is perfectly adequate without ever being beautiful. You will continue to turn the pages in a kind of ambivalent horror, wondering what could possibly happen next, and that is the biggest selling point of this book -- its plot darts unpredictably like a frightened or possibly rabid animal, and you