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    Tin Lily
    Tin Lily
    Tin Lily
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    Tin Lily

    By Joann Swanson

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    Just because you survive doesn’t mean you’re alive.
    One moment fifteen-year-old Lily Berkenshire is sitting in her bedroom, favorite song blaring through her earbuds, history book open on her lap. The next, her alcoholic father is shooting and killing her mother. Then he’s pointing the gun at Lily and pulling the trigger. Click. He’s out of bullets.
    For now.
    When she moves to Seattle to live with her aunt, Lily retreats into peaceful, dissociative trances to escape the shattered nightmare that is her life. Soon, though, she discovers a beautiful boy who wants to take her out, a therapist who wants to help her heal and new friends who believe she can find wholeness again.
    But her father wants something else entirely. He is hunting her and unless Lily confronts and heals the devastation inside her, she’ll forfeit her life to a father determined to end it.
    From the first shot to the final, terrifying showdown, Tin Lily is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoann Swanson
    Release dateOct 10, 2014
    ISBN9780990345312
    Tin Lily
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    Joann Swanson

    Joann Swanson was born and raised in Ogden, Utah, where she attended old Catholic schools with spooky boiler rooms and even spookier nuns. These things have understandably influenced her dark novels.She now lives in Boise, ID with her husband and three spoiled feline divas. She works full time as an instructional designer, teaches two classes for a university and writes every chance she gets.Besides writing, teaching and designing, Joann is an avid reader of just about every genre (plenty of YA, a smidge of Sci-Fi, buckets of horror, a dash of literary, even some graphic novels).Occasionally Joann and her husband try to remember that work isn't everything and do a big vacation--so far, Victoria and Vancouver BC, Vegas, the Oregon coast and Maui. Someday they hope to go to Sunnydale, CA. Why? Because Hellmouth.Tin Lily is Joann's first novel.

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    • 5/5
      Anything can change in the blink of an eye. In the time it takes you to take in a breath or exhale the one you've been holding, your whole life, your whole world can be knocked off kilter. That's what happens to Lily, one minute everything is fine, good even and the next she's seeing blood splatter on the walls, hearing screaming and running from the man who just murdered her mother, the man who, just minutes ago she called 'Dad'. Lily survived that day but she still lives in fear. Fear that she's the reason her mother died, fear that her father will hurt everyone she loves and then come for her, fear that she's crazy for seeing him everywhere and hearing his voice inside her head. Now living with her aunt, Lily finds it hard to open up, to let anyone get close. She sees visions on a daily basis, her father threatening her, blaming her, haunting her. If Lily can't trust herself how is she suppose to trust others? "Tin Lily" was such a beautiful, heartbreaking story. I was unsure when I first started it, thinking it was meant for a younger audience but I feel like this book is so captivating and mesmerizing that it doesn't matter your age. Whether you're in middle school, highschool or your second year of retirement I promise you that you will fall in love with this book. I know I did and I cannot wait to get my hands on anything else that Joann writes.Until next time, GingerIn compliance with FTC guidelines I am disclosing that this book was given to me for free to review. My review is my honest opinion.
    • 5/5
      Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review. This did not influence my review in any way.I’m crying on the train again and this time its because of a book I’ve never heard of by an author who hasn’t written anything else yet, from a publisher I didn’t even know existed. What I do know is that I can feel this book right there in my chest and today, as soon as I access the Uni Wireless I will be tracking down this book in paperback and paying the ridiculous shipping costs to Australia.Why, you ask? What has this book done for me that others haven’t lately? I wish I had an eloquent thought on that subject but I’m still working through them. Lily Berkenshire is 15 and just this once she doesn’t want to answer the phone when her alcoholic father calls. One moment she’s in her room in her and her mother’s dog food house, listening to her knock off iPod, and the next a shot rings out. Her mother is lying dead on the living room floor and now Lily’s dad is pointing the gun at her and it’s only the lack of bullets that leaves Lily still alive. He promises he’ll come back for her and disappears.Lily is described as tin, because after her father kills her mother she feels hollow inside, like there’s no room for anything. She goes off into her own head for minutes, hours at a time and there’s the bees and she’s not sure if she’s actually seeing her father or imagining it. Despite living with a loving aunt and talking to an understanding (therapist, psychologist?), Lily doesn’t tell of these encounters for fear of being sent away. She finds tethers and small focuses in her world to keep her present, such as the tiny kitten she rescues from a dumpster and Stephen King’s The Stand. I thought Lily was a beautifully crafted character and it pained me to see her struggling her way through this new life, under the weight of things nobody should have to feel.Tin Lily also delves into the history of Lily’s father as she, in this amazing way, tries to understand what made him turn from her loving dad into Hank, two separate identities to her. The aunt she stays with, Hank’s sister, had the same upbringing as Hank but ultimately they chose different paths and different ways to cope with an emotionally and physically abusive father. This ideal was handled well and addressed how our childhood influences our adult lives, but there is always a choice. Margie recognised her problems, saw a therapist, worked through her issues and came out the other side happy and well adjusted, while Hank turned to alcohol and rage. I think people are too quick to blame outside influences, such as childhood trauma, but Tin Lily highlights the factor of choice. There is always a choice.Tin Lily was such a beautiful novel – it was heartbreaking and tragic, but also left me with a feeling of hope. That’s good. I like hope. The only thing I would have liked to see is Lily make some friends as well as or as opposed to a boyfriend type character, though I did like Nick and thought their romance was sweet and realistic. I liked that he became a tether for Lily but also that there were other important tethers in her life too. I can’t wait to have a copy of this for my bookshelf.  

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