Title: Lean On Me
Author: Candy Crum
Genre: YA Romance
Release: March 16, 2014
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Synopsis:
Sixteen year old Bri comes from a wealthy family, allowing her an expensive pass into the popular crowd, though it never much mattered to her. She's on the basketball team and track and is the top in both.
Bri has everything a girl could want, but she longs for loving and emotionally available parents. She longs for a traditional family instead of the one she was gifted - cold and very distant.
Bri's parents pressure her to be the best at everything instead of just being the best that she can be. As a result of trying for the perfect life for her parents, Bri finds herself in an abusive relationship and pressured into doing what a lot of teenagers are pressured into doing.
When Bri becomes pregnant, her entire world is turned upside down and she has no idea who she can trust anymore. Bri struggles to find a place in this world for herself and for her baby - the baby that she is desperate to have and watch grow. Along the way, Bri is given an opportunity to completely change her life and the life of her child - but it may hinder the life of another... binding him to a future he was never meant to have, just for her. Bri is forced to grow and grow stronger as she fights for her baby and learns how to be a good mother - and remain a pure soul.
Author: Candy Crum
Genre: YA Romance
Release: March 16, 2014
Goodreads
Synopsis:
Sixteen year old Bri comes from a wealthy family, allowing her an expensive pass into the popular crowd, though it never much mattered to her. She's on the basketball team and track and is the top in both.
Bri has everything a girl could want, but she longs for loving and emotionally available parents. She longs for a traditional family instead of the one she was gifted - cold and very distant.
Bri's parents pressure her to be the best at everything instead of just being the best that she can be. As a result of trying for the perfect life for her parents, Bri finds herself in an abusive relationship and pressured into doing what a lot of teenagers are pressured into doing.
When Bri becomes pregnant, her entire world is turned upside down and she has no idea who she can trust anymore. Bri struggles to find a place in this world for herself and for her baby - the baby that she is desperate to have and watch grow. Along the way, Bri is given an opportunity to completely change her life and the life of her child - but it may hinder the life of another... binding him to a future he was never meant to have, just for her. Bri is forced to grow and grow stronger as she fights for her baby and learns how to be a good mother - and remain a pure soul.
~Author Bio~
Candy Crum lives in Indiana and is the Author of “The Eternal Series” and other short stories. She published her first novel, The Eternal Gift, in May of 2011 and has been publishing ever since. Candy is an avid lover of the paranormal genre, stemming from years of reading the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice when she was a teenager. Later, she developed a deep love of the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead and the House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, furthering her love of the genre and pushing her to really push to finish and publish her novel. Since then, Candy has released three other books in The Eternal Series and will release another later in 2014. Now, Candy is trying her hand at more contemporary pieces of work, like that of Lean on Me and other books she will release in 2014. Some of Candy’s interests include the usual reading and writing, music (of most types), movies (action and comedy or any combination of the two), cartoons (she loves to say that her children watch cartoons because she does), and drawing. She loves talking with her fans and loves reading the reviews that her fans are kind enough to leave for her. Always feel free to find Candy on Facebook and send her a message.
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An uplifting story about a young teenage girl, who is to become a mother, fighting for her and her little girl and having to go down an extremely tough road to do so.
I enjoyed this story, it was a perfect read for a rainy day and a story that made me smile and lift my spirits up.
Bri was a wonderful character. Despite getting pregnant at such a young age, she was mature, realistic, strong and loving and reading the story you knew that no matter how young she was, she would be a great mother and she deserved to get a happy ending.
Matt was also wonderful. A little older than Bri, he was a knight in shining armour for her and was so responsible and supportive of Bri. As was his lovely family.
The plot surprised me, when I read the blurb for the book I didn't expect so much drama, especially in the form of Mike. But it definitely kept me hooked and wanting to keep on reading to find out what would happen next and if he was going to go after Bri.
It was unrealistic but I'm a firm believer that books are there as an escape and sometimes we want to read a story that's unrealistic and would only happen in a fairytale. And because I still really enjoyed reading this book it didn't bother me that it wouldn't ever happen in real life.
Overall a quick, easy, and in the end happy read which is exactly what I was looking for.
Reviewed by Bethany
I enjoyed this story, it was a perfect read for a rainy day and a story that made me smile and lift my spirits up.
Bri was a wonderful character. Despite getting pregnant at such a young age, she was mature, realistic, strong and loving and reading the story you knew that no matter how young she was, she would be a great mother and she deserved to get a happy ending.
Matt was also wonderful. A little older than Bri, he was a knight in shining armour for her and was so responsible and supportive of Bri. As was his lovely family.
The plot surprised me, when I read the blurb for the book I didn't expect so much drama, especially in the form of Mike. But it definitely kept me hooked and wanting to keep on reading to find out what would happen next and if he was going to go after Bri.
It was unrealistic but I'm a firm believer that books are there as an escape and sometimes we want to read a story that's unrealistic and would only happen in a fairytale. And because I still really enjoyed reading this book it didn't bother me that it wouldn't ever happen in real life.
Overall a quick, easy, and in the end happy read which is exactly what I was looking for.
Reviewed by Bethany