By: Laura Silverman
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: May 2, 2017
Rating: 4/5 stars
"However, as strong as my desire is to look like I belong, my desire to not make a fool myself is even stronger."
The quote above speaks to me on a very deep and emotional level.
Girl Out of Water is the story of a young girl named Anise Sawyer who would love nothing more than to surf every day of every minute of her life. And living in Santa Cruz, CA, she has a better change of making that a dream a reality. She has a great group of friends, and this summer is going to be the best summer of her life. She's going to spend it surfing with her friends before some of them go away to college. Leaving her hometown is a concept she just doesn't understand. Why would you want to leave your home when everything you need is there?
But when her aunt suffers an accident Anise has to leave her hometown and friends and fly to Nebraska with her father in order to care of her aunt and younger cousins. While she is extremely unhappy to be leaving home she loves her family and would do anything for them.
She fears that her friends will soon forget about her and she finds herself pulling back the more time she spends in Nebraska. And to make matters more complicated there is Lincoln. He is a cute black, one-armed skater boy who is ridiculously charming and has a big taste for live and adventure.
Anise struggles with being forgotten as well as forgetting. Her mind is set on never leaving Santa Cruz. Will anything or anyone change her mind?
This story was so delightful! I throughly enjoyed being in this world. I loved the characters in this book. It had everything I could ever want in a contemporary story. There was strong family ties. Cute boys. The beach. And kissing.
Silverman did a great job creating the perfect summer read!
She fears that her friends will soon forget about her and she finds herself pulling back the more time she spends in Nebraska. And to make matters more complicated there is Lincoln. He is a cute black, one-armed skater boy who is ridiculously charming and has a big taste for live and adventure.
Anise struggles with being forgotten as well as forgetting. Her mind is set on never leaving Santa Cruz. Will anything or anyone change her mind?
This story was so delightful! I throughly enjoyed being in this world. I loved the characters in this book. It had everything I could ever want in a contemporary story. There was strong family ties. Cute boys. The beach. And kissing.
Silverman did a great job creating the perfect summer read!
Here are just some reasons why I loved Girl Out of Water Here and some examples of the diversity that made this story so amazing:
- Anise dealt with anxiety when meeting new people. It was written so well and I related to it so much. I deal with anxiety when I meet a large group of people and it can be overwhelming. Having a character go through anxiety made me feel like I wasn't alone.
- Lincoln, the love interest was not only a black guy, but he was a one-armed skater. The point of the story was not that he was a person of color or that he had a disability. IT WAS PERFECT. Our world is diverse and therefor we should have diversity in the stories we read and write.
- I also really loved that Anise was tall. Anise is 5'10 just like me! I always find that descriptions of girls in contemporary stories are words like "small, petite, or he towered over me, ect." All the tall boys are given to short girls in YA contemporary but Anise and I are here to take them back! (This is from my reading experience. If you have an recs of tall girls in YA that aren't the butt of the joke or where their height is used as an insecurity PLEASE let me know!)
Fans of Sarah Dessen be sure to pick this book up for the summer!
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Thank you to the Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
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