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D.N.A.-Nothing Would Ever Be The Same
Debney Nichole Armstrong thought she knew
everything about her family. She knew her dad worked hard at everything,
except building a relationship with his family. She knew her younger
brothers were typical kids, and she knew her mother, for some unknown
reason, disliked her first born and only daughter. What she hadn’t
known… DNA could ruin your life.
On the night before a planned
family vacation, Debney is inexplicably excluded. After a bitter
argument with her mother at being barred from family vacations,
especially one so close to her eighteenth birthday, Debney arranges a
romantic dinner with her long time crush. During the chaos of a
romantic dinner turned teen party, she learns of the death of her
family. Yes, sometimes relationships in families end tragically. People
leave; parents die, and lives change. But does it all have to bring
out the skeletons in the closet?
What she really needed to know was did her mother contribute to the ‘accident’? Who is the man repeatedly mentioned in her mother’s journals? Where were the bodies of her ten year old twin brothers, and who is the father of the child she now carries? No matter what the answers are, Debney knows, nothing will ever be the same.
Truculent and defiant teenagers are not unusual, but ones that have to
face one tragedy after another and deal with the consequences of their
reaction to them are not. In this story, Ey Wade expertly portrays a
young girl, Debney, whose mother fails desperately in the parental love
department. When tragedy strikes, she makes one wrong turn that
changes her life dramatically. An 18-year-old could go down one of two
paths in these circumstances - the road to self-destruction or the
road to self-fulfilment. Debney has to find an inner strength to
choose the right one.
This was beautifully written by Ey, mostly in flashbacks. Debney is a well-conceived character with spunk and intelligence, and despite the disinterest and lack of love from her mother, or maybe because of it, she is a warm and selfless character. Her closest friends, although diverse in character are likable and their mixed ethnicity bonds them tightly. All the characters in this book were well-drawn, the story is nicely paced and the result is a delightful YA novel.
What she really needed to know was did her mother contribute to the ‘accident’? Who is the man repeatedly mentioned in her mother’s journals? Where were the bodies of her ten year old twin brothers, and who is the father of the child she now carries? No matter what the answers are, Debney knows, nothing will ever be the same.
REVIEWS: A delightful YA novel,
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Beeshon -
Truculent and defiant teenagers are not unusual, but ones that have to
face one tragedy after another and deal with the consequences of their
reaction to them are not. In this story, Ey Wade expertly portrays a
young girl, Debney, whose mother fails desperately in the parental love
department. When tragedy strikes, she makes one wrong turn that
changes her life dramatically. An 18-year-old could go down one of two
paths in these circumstances - the road to self-destruction or the
road to self-fulfilment. Debney has to find an inner strength to
choose the right one. This was beautifully written by Ey, mostly in flashbacks. Debney is a well-conceived character with spunk and intelligence, and despite the disinterest and lack of love from her mother, or maybe because of it, she is a warm and selfless character. Her closest friends, although diverse in character are likable and their mixed ethnicity bonds them tightly. All the characters in this book were well-drawn, the story is nicely paced and the result is a delightful YA novel.
