Comeback
By Vicki Grant
3.5/5
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Vicki Grant
VICKI GRANT left her career in advertising and television to write her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. She has written many books for young readers, including Not Suitable for Family Viewing, winner of the Red Maple Award, Quid Pro Quo, winner of the Author Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction, Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret, Pig Boy and B Negative. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Web: vickigrant.com Twitter: @VickiGrantYA Instagram: @vicki_grantya
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Vicki Grant pulls off a neat trick in this novel. She tells quite a sophisticated and provocative story, keeps it believably ambiguous and messy, moves it along at a dramatic pace, and does all of this with language and structure that make it accessible to readers with a variety of reading levels.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Canadian author Vicki Grant‘s latest novel from the Orca Soundings imprint fast establishes a problem for protagonist Ria Patterson: her parents are divorcing and Ria’s life is going in the exact opposite of a direction she’d choose for herself. Her rich investmant-banker dad has been kicked out and her mom won’t take any of his money. Ria’s mom insists on living on cheap frozen pizzas and when the final bomb drops — Ria, her little brother Elliott, and her mom will all be moving to another town to start a new life — Ria can’t help but freak out. She is in no way ready to leave her ritzy neighborhood, her bffs, or her hot boyfriend Colin for, well, anything.Ria’s priorities change quickly, though, when her dad goes missing in a plane crash. She’s sure her dad is still alive, but family friends are already talking about him like he’s gone for good. Dead. And the media has started circling in. Soon Ria is confronted with rumors that her father wasn’t the person she thought he was, and it affected almost everyone in town, including Colin. Alone and scared, Ria knows she has to do something to take matters into her own hands. She just doesn’t know how.With twists and turns around ever corner, COMEBACK is a great pick for reluctant teen readers. Considering its short length, Vicki Grant does a fabulous job of capturing Ria’s voice straight away, developing real, relateable characters, and pacing an unexpected thrill-ride. I’m looking forward to seeing what Ms. Grant is working on next!
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To me, this book "come back" is better than the other one that i read, "house party." I say that because this one focus more on the characters emotion. The other book did too, but in my opinion, the other one didn't seem as touching. It's another one of those books that has scenarios of what can or is happening to certain teens now a days. Overall, this is a great book and i would recommand it to people who like to read a shorter book that has not as much pages.