The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young
Young Adult/Coming of Age.
Format– Kindle/Paperback/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Blurb >>>>>>>
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Impossible Vastness of Us and the On Dublin Street series comes a heartfelt and beautiful new young adult fiction novel, set in Scotland, about daring to dream and embracing who you are.
I am Comet Caldwell.
And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name.
People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she’ll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky.
But Comet has never wanted to be the centre of attention. She can’t wait to graduate from high school in Edinburgh and leave to attend university somewhere far, far away.
When new student Tobias King blazes in from America and shakes up the school, Comet thinks she’s got the bad boy figured out. Until they’re thrown together for a class assignment and begin to form an unlikely connection.
Once there was a cold man in a dark hole, And he offered a boy a choice. “I’ll destroy your pain in exchange for your soul, Or live your days down here with no voice.”
MY REVIEW >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
First time read of anything by Samantha Young, and what an introduction, It had all the feels, the angst, the drama, the love. I don’t often read young adult they have to be something special for me to do so and this was very special. I won’t give too much away as I feel you need no spoilers. If you are of an age that teenage angst is long gone, cast your minds back to when you were, then embrace this book for that alone. Times do change at an alarmingly fast pace, but one thing will never change No man’s land of the teenage years.
This is an amazing coming of age book. That took me back to time of when I was a school girl years ago. ( to many to count ) The social levels of school, the clicks the bad boys and girls, the bullies. The good teachers. the bad teachers who scared you for life.
Comet I loved, her inner dialogue was superb, awkwardness, never quite fitting in. Tobias I loved, but Stevie my heart broke for over and over again. When walking this path called life, people are judgmental, harsh unforgiving monsters when we reach the teen stage of life, with the mind set that no one before them will ever understand what it’s like to be a teenager, this mentality is and always will be a social etiquette of living, my teenage years were horrific. I survived them, and now watching my own children going through them is unbelievable. This beautiful story of a young girls coming into her own was like a rose bud slowly blossoming, she was her own person, introverted yes but individual and I love that in a person regardless of age. I loved the fact that she dressed how she wanted. My heart broke for her over her parents treatment of her, especially her mother. She was as individual as you can get, yet at the same time she wasn’t. We all judge someone wrongly, by the company they keep, how true is that still today, yet they are just like you and me they’re the same have you ever given someone the benefit of doubt. No, then maybe this book will make you understand better, Never judge a book by it’s cover, people are often the way they are because of circumstances does it make them bad, no just misunderstood and left to fester, because they have been judge tried and punished not only by their peers but by their Elders and betters, The saying people in glass houses shouldn’t through stones rings loud in this book. Tobias a tortured soul full of pain and anger. Screaming out for help, gets it from the most unlikeliest one, Comet. The only reason I have given this a 4 star instead of 5 is I now prefer duel ‘POV’ I would have loved to have seen his words and Most definitely Stevie’s, even though I knew in my heart how he would end, I prayed that it didn’t that some where he would be rescued. The trials of teenage living should never be dismissed as foible, they do suffer from angst, self degradation, bullying, not fitting in, Invisible to all. Their pain is real to dismiss a teenager trying to reach out to you is as bad as you can get. They can fall in love deeply, they can hurt, even the biggest bully is deep inside hurting. Go in blind reading this book take it slow and savor the story for what it is a painful, joy filled, happy, angry entrance in to a teenagers life and her coming of age. Magical book.
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