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I’m from Nowhere
A few weeks into her sophomore year at Ventura High School in California, everything is about to change for Wren Verlaine. It's always been just Wren and her mother, Hannah, but when Hannah receives a reporting assignment that sends her to Greenland for six months, Wren is shipped off to Hardwick Hall, an old, prestigious boarding school back East.
For every ice queen like her suitemate Honor, who looks right through Wren like she doesn't exist, there's also a rower with adorably crinkly eyes (that would be Nick) or a friendly and funny fellow musician (like Chazzy). But just as Wren finally starts to settle in at Hardwick, clues begin appearing about the one secret her mother has ever kept from her—the identity of her father—and what Wren ultimately discovers threatens to turn her and her new world upside down.
For every ice queen like her suitemate Honor, who looks right through Wren like she doesn't exist, there's also a rower with adorably crinkly eyes (that would be Nick) or a friendly and funny fellow musician (like Chazzy). But just as Wren finally starts to settle in at Hardwick, clues begin appearing about the one secret her mother has ever kept from her—the identity of her father—and what Wren ultimately discovers threatens to turn her and her new world upside down.
291 pages, Hardcover
First published January 26, 2016
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Suzanne Myers
2 books14 followersSuzanne Myers was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She is a graduate of Princeton University and USC Film School. Her feature film Alchemy won the SXSW film festival. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two sons, and two dogs.
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May 22, 2016
SPOILERS GALORE
Seriously, did anyone over the age of 12 not figure out who her father was about 100 pages before she did? This girl was no Nancy Drew; I'm not sure she's even Harriett the Spy. The author made it so obvious that if Wren had rubbed her brain cells together instead of chasing after Red Herring from Scooby Doo, she would have found Daddy Dearest much sooner.
The other problem I had was with the number of implausible events that had to come together to make this story. Her mom is a Ventura stringer for the LA Times, she's not even a regular journalist for them. She mostly reports the local football scores. Her one big story was about the impact and aftermath of a local mudslide that wiped out some homes and killed a few people. She's not even a scientific journalist but somehow she, of all the available writers in the country, gets chosen to spend 6 months in Greenland on a study.
Then she calls up the guy she dated at prep school (and later committed parenthood without his awareness) out of the blue and asks him to help get her daughter into their alma mater. No contact for 15 years and a waiting list to get into the uber-school but he gets Wren in (where the sudden vacancy just happens to make Wren and his daughter Honor roomies so the sparks can fly).
I didn't really get why Honor suddenly decided to tank her horse show. She's in the finals of a national competition at Madison Square Garden and she sneaks away to get hammered with a guy in his 20's. Wren et. al. show up to drag her puking passed out ass to the show and toss her onto her horse to save the day. Apparently she's a phenomenal rider, because, despite a BAC that would earn her a DUI and a night in the slammer, she finishes third.
Wren's mother is a selfish moron. She's going off to an assignment where she could die and she makes no provisions for her daughter other than potentially dooming Wren to the life she despised on Butt Crack Island. She got out of Dodge and never looked back, but, if she became a Popsicle, her daughter was going to be condemned to live in that hell hole and never escape. She's going to be gone for 6 months and she didn't even make plans for paying next semester's tuition (not that they ever explained how she came up with the swag to get Wren registered in the first place). Not exactly a Mother of the Year candidate...
Neutral:
Her newly discovered Dad was pretty blase about getting informed he had another child; he announces it to the world at a party and pretty much writes her a blank check to keep her enrolled. There was literally no drama; it was like "Oh, you're my kid, here's next semester's tuition."
On the positive side:
I love a good villain and Great-Aunt Helen was an absolute harpy. You can see why Wren's mom fled for her life. Helen lives in this old house on a tiny New England island with only 40 students in their school. She offers Wren grapefruit and black coffee for breakfast and pontificates about her mother's "inappropriate choices." Needless to say, Wren is more than a little pissed off at her Mom for potentially condemning her to live with this old battle-axe, but she also understands why Mom fled to California before letting the family know she was pregnant. Raising a kid on your own was preferable to the condemnation of the locals for committing parenthood (a quick wedding that neither wanted would have been arranged to save face with their contemporaries).
The necklace turned out to be a bit of a red herring; not meaning what either Honor or Wren assumed. But the explanation made sense.
Seriously, did anyone over the age of 12 not figure out who her father was about 100 pages before she did? This girl was no Nancy Drew; I'm not sure she's even Harriett the Spy. The author made it so obvious that if Wren had rubbed her brain cells together instead of chasing after Red Herring from Scooby Doo, she would have found Daddy Dearest much sooner.
The other problem I had was with the number of implausible events that had to come together to make this story. Her mom is a Ventura stringer for the LA Times, she's not even a regular journalist for them. She mostly reports the local football scores. Her one big story was about the impact and aftermath of a local mudslide that wiped out some homes and killed a few people. She's not even a scientific journalist but somehow she, of all the available writers in the country, gets chosen to spend 6 months in Greenland on a study.
Then she calls up the guy she dated at prep school (and later committed parenthood without his awareness) out of the blue and asks him to help get her daughter into their alma mater. No contact for 15 years and a waiting list to get into the uber-school but he gets Wren in (where the sudden vacancy just happens to make Wren and his daughter Honor roomies so the sparks can fly).
I didn't really get why Honor suddenly decided to tank her horse show. She's in the finals of a national competition at Madison Square Garden and she sneaks away to get hammered with a guy in his 20's. Wren et. al. show up to drag her puking passed out ass to the show and toss her onto her horse to save the day. Apparently she's a phenomenal rider, because, despite a BAC that would earn her a DUI and a night in the slammer, she finishes third.
Wren's mother is a selfish moron. She's going off to an assignment where she could die and she makes no provisions for her daughter other than potentially dooming Wren to the life she despised on Butt Crack Island. She got out of Dodge and never looked back, but, if she became a Popsicle, her daughter was going to be condemned to live in that hell hole and never escape. She's going to be gone for 6 months and she didn't even make plans for paying next semester's tuition (not that they ever explained how she came up with the swag to get Wren registered in the first place). Not exactly a Mother of the Year candidate...
Neutral:
Her newly discovered Dad was pretty blase about getting informed he had another child; he announces it to the world at a party and pretty much writes her a blank check to keep her enrolled. There was literally no drama; it was like "Oh, you're my kid, here's next semester's tuition."
On the positive side:
I love a good villain and Great-Aunt Helen was an absolute harpy. You can see why Wren's mom fled for her life. Helen lives in this old house on a tiny New England island with only 40 students in their school. She offers Wren grapefruit and black coffee for breakfast and pontificates about her mother's "inappropriate choices." Needless to say, Wren is more than a little pissed off at her Mom for potentially condemning her to live with this old battle-axe, but she also understands why Mom fled to California before letting the family know she was pregnant. Raising a kid on your own was preferable to the condemnation of the locals for committing parenthood (a quick wedding that neither wanted would have been arranged to save face with their contemporaries).
The necklace turned out to be a bit of a red herring; not meaning what either Honor or Wren assumed. But the explanation made sense.
November 6, 2016
In the book I'm from Nowhere, there's a girl named Wren and her mother named Hanna. There life is pretty normal, Hanna's a journalist, Wren goes to high school, and they lived in California their whole life. Wren though has a had something missing her whole life, a father. Hanna knows who he is, but Wren doesn't. One day Hanna just tells Wren she's putting her at a boarding school on the east coast and that's that. With no questions asked, Wren goes to the same boarding school Hanna went, and Hanna goes to Greenland for a job offer. Wren gets there and meets her roommates, Eloise, India, and Honor. Everyone likes her, expect Honor. It's the second week of school and a guy comes up to her and asked if she'd like to go to a open mic night somewhere. Wren agrees and that's how she meets her best friend Chazzy. It's been a few months now and Honor still isn't warming up to Wren, her mom hasn't contacted her, and she still doesn't know who her father is. That is until one day Wren gets a call saying something happened to her mother while she was in Greenland. Hearing that made Wren worried sick. So while Wren was waiting for an update on her mother, she looks through her mothers old yearbook from the school. While looking through the yearbook she gets a major clue as to who her father is. I'm not going to spoil the rest of the book for you. Lets just say at the end of it, Wren is happy.
I thought this book was really good. I picked up during the summer and put it down because I thought it was boring, but I'm glad I picked it up again because this book was good. What I really liked about the book was the author made the main character go through struggles that took a long time and not just wrote a few chapters and everything turned out fine. I also really liked the main character Wren. I feel like I could connect with her as who we are as people. We both are shy when it comes to something new, but have fun once warmed up. Both of us are close to our mother and I can go on for a few about how we are alike but I'm not going to right now. What I didn't like about the book was how predictable it was sometimes. I understand a lot of books are predictable but this one just didn't have plot twist, and it was easy to figure out what possibly was going to happen next.
I would suggest this book to people who like the books where the main character figures out who they are. Also to the people who like reading about the main character going through something new, or a hard time in their life. I really enjoyed this book and how the characters were fun to read about.
I thought this book was really good. I picked up during the summer and put it down because I thought it was boring, but I'm glad I picked it up again because this book was good. What I really liked about the book was the author made the main character go through struggles that took a long time and not just wrote a few chapters and everything turned out fine. I also really liked the main character Wren. I feel like I could connect with her as who we are as people. We both are shy when it comes to something new, but have fun once warmed up. Both of us are close to our mother and I can go on for a few about how we are alike but I'm not going to right now. What I didn't like about the book was how predictable it was sometimes. I understand a lot of books are predictable but this one just didn't have plot twist, and it was easy to figure out what possibly was going to happen next.
I would suggest this book to people who like the books where the main character figures out who they are. Also to the people who like reading about the main character going through something new, or a hard time in their life. I really enjoyed this book and how the characters were fun to read about.
February 1, 2016
I'm From Nowhere was a cute little book that didn't go too deep into anything but was quick enough to read that you don't feel like it's reaaally missing much. The book is about Wren, who is sent to Hardwick, a boarding school where her mother went, and between making friends and enemies, she learns the truth about her mother's past. There was nothing particularly special about this book - the book was predictable and it didn't really throw any curveballs - but I managed to read it in a few hours. It's the type of book that you can put down for a tea break, but you still want to pick it back up.
I felt a little bit like the characters weren't given much development, they just were. They all served a purpose in the book but there is no background into how they became who they are. Why is Honor so cold? Why is Nick so flirty? How come Chazzy is so eccentric? Rather than really engaging with any of them you just sort of get pulled along for the ride. At the same time, despite this, the characters didn't feel all that flat (aside from Honor and her father, they fell flat for me), so it isn't like I didn't like them.
When I was reading I'm From Nowhere I knew that I wasn't reading anything special - it was clear that this book wasn't going to stick with me and that it would just fade into the pile of books I'll read this year, but I also knew that I was enjoying it, and in the end I think that is what this book gives. A little bit of mindless reading in a sea of hard-hitting contemporary books.
Overall Rating: C
Book released 26th January 2016 by Soho Teen
Book received from the publisher/author in exchange for an honest review
I felt a little bit like the characters weren't given much development, they just were. They all served a purpose in the book but there is no background into how they became who they are. Why is Honor so cold? Why is Nick so flirty? How come Chazzy is so eccentric? Rather than really engaging with any of them you just sort of get pulled along for the ride. At the same time, despite this, the characters didn't feel all that flat (aside from Honor and her father, they fell flat for me), so it isn't like I didn't like them.
When I was reading I'm From Nowhere I knew that I wasn't reading anything special - it was clear that this book wasn't going to stick with me and that it would just fade into the pile of books I'll read this year, but I also knew that I was enjoying it, and in the end I think that is what this book gives. A little bit of mindless reading in a sea of hard-hitting contemporary books.
Overall Rating: C
Book released 26th January 2016 by Soho Teen
Book received from the publisher/author in exchange for an honest review
January 10, 2016
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My first impression of this book...
I could not wait to read this book. It has just about everything I love in a YA book. Girls with cool names...Wren, Honor, India. Mean girls...Honor. Horses...Jasper, Rainmaker, and Sparkle Plenty...just to name a few. Girls who haven't ever known a father...Wren. A mom with a secret...Hannah...Wren's mom. All of these people are tossed together at a private elite boarding school on the east coast...Hardwick Hall. Wren is there because her mother is on assignment in Greenland.
What was going through my head as I read this book...
This book was so much fun to read! This author knows how to pull her readers in to a unique kind of story. Honor is the best mean girl ever. She hates despises and ignores Wren for no apparent reason...it's so juicy. Wren doesn't really fit in and Honor totally ignores her other than to occasionally give her a scathing look.
My most memorable characters/situations...
I loved when Wren learned to ride. I pretty much just liked Wren. She has to handle leaving California to live among strangers without her mom and without knowing who her father is. I don't think she had much self confidence. It was nice to see Wren grow.
My thoughts upon completing this book...
I am not totally sure I liked the ending. It might have been a bit too simplified.
My thoughts for potential readers...
This was a fun book...not really preachy...just really interesting. Readers who enjoy books filled with angst, fun and reawakenings should like this one.
My first impression of this book...
I could not wait to read this book. It has just about everything I love in a YA book. Girls with cool names...Wren, Honor, India. Mean girls...Honor. Horses...Jasper, Rainmaker, and Sparkle Plenty...just to name a few. Girls who haven't ever known a father...Wren. A mom with a secret...Hannah...Wren's mom. All of these people are tossed together at a private elite boarding school on the east coast...Hardwick Hall. Wren is there because her mother is on assignment in Greenland.
What was going through my head as I read this book...
This book was so much fun to read! This author knows how to pull her readers in to a unique kind of story. Honor is the best mean girl ever. She hates despises and ignores Wren for no apparent reason...it's so juicy. Wren doesn't really fit in and Honor totally ignores her other than to occasionally give her a scathing look.
My most memorable characters/situations...
I loved when Wren learned to ride. I pretty much just liked Wren. She has to handle leaving California to live among strangers without her mom and without knowing who her father is. I don't think she had much self confidence. It was nice to see Wren grow.
My thoughts upon completing this book...
I am not totally sure I liked the ending. It might have been a bit too simplified.
My thoughts for potential readers...
This was a fun book...not really preachy...just really interesting. Readers who enjoy books filled with angst, fun and reawakenings should like this one.
February 16, 2016
3.5. Kind of obvious where it's going, and once it gets there it meanders for a while tying up loose ends, but entertaining.
June 22, 2023
she doesn’t even play the guitar smh
September 29, 2020
It was just super disappointing. Went in thinking it would be a nice light mystery twisty summer read, but there were so many annoying things about this book and I didn’t realize it until I was in too deep to stop.
Here are some of the aforementioned annoying things:
-HONOR — obviously Wren is obsessed with her but she writes to her audience as if she isn’t. You honestly can’t turn a page in this book without hearing about something that Honor did or didn’t do and how it affects Wren’s life.
- She kisses Chazzy but can’t figure out if she actually likes him or not throughout the book while pining after Nick the whole time (at one point she lets him put his hand on her leg under the lunch table for an entire conversation with the girl he’s currently dating sitting across from them.) And she likes Nick why?
-Her mom won’t give her a clue of who her dad is throughout the entire book and maintains this constant aura of mystery around him and claims it’s due to her need of privacy (which makes you think she was possibly a victim of abuse, but in the end you find out she wasn’t)—meanwhile it’s crystal clear who Wren’s father is from the moment we find out that Honor has a matching charm necklace to Wren’s—and then when she wakes up from her coma and discovers that Wren has gone to Honor’s home for Thanksgiving, she immediately blurts it out to Honor’s dad that he’s Wren’s father, and then says she’s happy that Wren finally knows who her father is (why not just tell her in the first place?!?!?!!!!) That was the most infuriating part I think (why keep the identity of the father of your child a secret if you’re just goons be happy when she finds out in the end—or for that matter, why not just reveal the identity in the first place? It just fuels the kid to find out the identity even more out of curiosity)
-What was Taubin’s story about Hannah in school? Why was she so hurt by her years later? We never find out and I feel like that was just a loose end that needed to be tied up.
-We never find out why Honor wrote Wren off when she first started school (there was so much antagonism between then from the beginning for no reason)
-HONOR. SO. MUCH. TALKING. ABOUT. HONOR.
Here are some of the aforementioned annoying things:
-HONOR — obviously Wren is obsessed with her but she writes to her audience as if she isn’t. You honestly can’t turn a page in this book without hearing about something that Honor did or didn’t do and how it affects Wren’s life.
- She kisses Chazzy but can’t figure out if she actually likes him or not throughout the book while pining after Nick the whole time (at one point she lets him put his hand on her leg under the lunch table for an entire conversation with the girl he’s currently dating sitting across from them.) And she likes Nick why?
-Her mom won’t give her a clue of who her dad is throughout the entire book and maintains this constant aura of mystery around him and claims it’s due to her need of privacy (which makes you think she was possibly a victim of abuse, but in the end you find out she wasn’t)—meanwhile it’s crystal clear who Wren’s father is from the moment we find out that Honor has a matching charm necklace to Wren’s—and then when she wakes up from her coma and discovers that Wren has gone to Honor’s home for Thanksgiving, she immediately blurts it out to Honor’s dad that he’s Wren’s father, and then says she’s happy that Wren finally knows who her father is (why not just tell her in the first place?!?!?!!!!) That was the most infuriating part I think (why keep the identity of the father of your child a secret if you’re just goons be happy when she finds out in the end—or for that matter, why not just reveal the identity in the first place? It just fuels the kid to find out the identity even more out of curiosity)
-What was Taubin’s story about Hannah in school? Why was she so hurt by her years later? We never find out and I feel like that was just a loose end that needed to be tied up.
-We never find out why Honor wrote Wren off when she first started school (there was so much antagonism between then from the beginning for no reason)
-HONOR. SO. MUCH. TALKING. ABOUT. HONOR.
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July 4, 2018
Quick, easy, and brainless. Starts off a little rough, but evens out. Some inconsistencies, implausibilities and and a big convenient deux ex machina moment, but overall I have wasted my time on worse. Lots of horse details and music references and predictable, but still interesting, landscape/weather moments. I thought the bits about the actual educational style and set-up and expectations of the students were the most interesting. The Nick bit was uncomfortable, not entirely necessary, and not confronted well enough to justify keeping it in, imo.
Nicely wrapped up in the end, but I would like to know what happened between Hannah, Taubin and Ed Gibson. And what is Gigi's story? THOSE seem like stories worth investigating. In an adult novel. Retrospectively. Especially from Taubin's and Gigi's POVs. How did they get where they are?
Nicely wrapped up in the end, but I would like to know what happened between Hannah, Taubin and Ed Gibson. And what is Gigi's story? THOSE seem like stories worth investigating. In an adult novel. Retrospectively. Especially from Taubin's and Gigi's POVs. How did they get where they are?
November 1, 2018
Wren’s journalist mother gets a once in a life opportunity to report on a story in Greenland for 6 months, but as a result, Wren has to go to Hardwick Hall – a boarding school on the east coast (very far away from her home in Ventura, CA) where her mom was once a student. Wren takes the opportunity to try and learn more about her mom’s mysterious past and starts investigating possible leads on the father whose identity has been kept a secret all of this time. Along the way she makes some good friends through her musical talents, and is able to explore a newfound interest in horses and riding. Readers will be eager to learn more about Wren as she makes her realistic journey to self-discovery.
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November 23, 2025Lol. I thought this was a different book with the same exact title when I checked it out. Got a few chapters in and kept thinking, "This is wildly juvenile writing compared to the literary fiction I was expecting." I couldn't remember anything about the book I intended to read, though, because I put it on my to read list months or years ago. Eventually, after the 8th or 9th horse girl scene, I came to my senses.
March 15, 2020
I may not have connected to the book as one Should. But I Love the Fact that My Older Sister Olivia got me this Book. She may not get it....or me. She is trying. & its a 1st. So Yes!! I Like this Book. Not the snow or Honor (who I love & strongly dislike) who is more of a Sister then I have. Which is Four not counting Cousins.
April 20, 2018
This was a cute, light read. Very likeable characters made up for obvious plot holes and implausibilities.
September 8, 2019
Good story. A little slow in a few parts. Not believable, fairy tale resolution, but it's fiction, right?
February 8, 2020
I loved it even though I had solved the mystery 6 chapters before the main character. The characters were multi-faceted and the boarding school was everything I dream of in a boarding school.
February 22, 2022
Cute. A little predictable, but readable.
Rating: pg: a little language.
Rating: pg: a little language.
September 8, 2022
Me esperaba algo más original , pero el setting está bien , el personaje principal es interesante y tiene algunos toques modernos.
October 19, 2022
Feels unfinished.
April 2, 2016
Mom, aka Hannah, has always refused to tell Wren who her father is. It's really the only sticking point between them. Wren is just a few weeks into her sophomore year at Ventura High in California when Hannah drops a bomb. She finally has a really good assignment as a newspaper reporter, but it's six months long and will mean she's in Greenland on the ice and Wren can't stay in California.
By the following Monday, a dazed Wren is flying to NYC. She'll take a train to Connecticut where she'll be picked up and driven to Hardwick Hall, the private school Hannah attended as a teen. While Wren wonders just how Mom managed to get her in so fast, other questions and concerns soon push that one to the background. She's sharing a suite with three other girls and icy blonde, Honor, the queen of the school, looks right through her, but Wren senses there's more going on than meets the eye where they're concerned. Classes are hard and the mysteries compound. Why do she and Honor have similar antique jewelry? Which guy, Nick (an athlete) or Chazzy (a funny musician) is she more attracted to? What does the mysterious message in her Hannah's yearbook mean?
When tragedy hits, it's the catalyst that unlocks all her mysteries and, as they get solved, Wren discovers the girl who was hidden inside her. This is a very well done combination coming-of-age, mystery and romance. It kept me up until I finished it. Teens with convoluted family histories or secrets as well as those liking a good mystery will enjoy it a lot.
By the following Monday, a dazed Wren is flying to NYC. She'll take a train to Connecticut where she'll be picked up and driven to Hardwick Hall, the private school Hannah attended as a teen. While Wren wonders just how Mom managed to get her in so fast, other questions and concerns soon push that one to the background. She's sharing a suite with three other girls and icy blonde, Honor, the queen of the school, looks right through her, but Wren senses there's more going on than meets the eye where they're concerned. Classes are hard and the mysteries compound. Why do she and Honor have similar antique jewelry? Which guy, Nick (an athlete) or Chazzy (a funny musician) is she more attracted to? What does the mysterious message in her Hannah's yearbook mean?
When tragedy hits, it's the catalyst that unlocks all her mysteries and, as they get solved, Wren discovers the girl who was hidden inside her. This is a very well done combination coming-of-age, mystery and romance. It kept me up until I finished it. Teens with convoluted family histories or secrets as well as those liking a good mystery will enjoy it a lot.
June 10, 2016
A nice addition to the hallowed tradition of prep school novels, Myers gets her protagonist, Wren Verlaine, from the beaches of California to Hardwick by shipping off her single-mother for an extended stay on the ice fields of Greenland. If this sounds like the novelist has taken the least interesting of the potential story lines then you should go back to the haunting The White Darkness, the 2008 Printz winner from Geraldine McCaughrean. But as readers of Prep, A Separate Peace or The Starboard Sea know, there's nothing quite like a boarding school to shove those inconvenient parents off to the side and get down to the real business of life: dealing with the mean girls, falling in love, getting into an Ivy League school. Actually, the latter of these is not a concern of this particular novel, but that leaves plenty of room for plotting. The fact that her mother attended Hardwick becomes essential to the story, most particularly Wren's life-long search for her mysterious, never-been-revealed father. While the reader may be onto the answer before Wren hears the song, that hardly detracts from the pleasure of joining her on her discoveries.
April 11, 2016
2.5/5 stars. This book is a good book, but there isn't really much substance to it. Like, the only character you really get to know is Wren and the other characters are just there to move the story along. Some parts of the story feel kind of odd and like they should have been edited out. Like, the whole Nick storyline. There wasn't really a point to it. The same with the Stone Cove Island chapter. And then you have the elements of music and horseback riding and roommates. It felt like too much. I wished we could have learned what really happened between Ms. Taubin and Hannah's mom, but that wasn't cleared up. The biggest OMG moment was learning who Hannah's father was. There wasn't much more to him, other than "well, I have another daughter and everything is hunky-dory." Overall, this is not a book about a girl finding out who she is, this is a story about a young girl uncovering secrets from her mom's life. In the end, you still don't really get to know Hannah Verlaine. Or Wren for that matter.
FTC: I won this book from Goodreads Giveaways, but the review is strictly my own!
FTC: I won this book from Goodreads Giveaways, but the review is strictly my own!
August 28, 2016
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Wren was having the time of her life with her fun single mother in California. She loved the beach and playing her guitar. The only dark cloud was the identity of her father, whom her mother would never talk about. Wren's mother decides to go on an extended work assignment in another country and while there, she has decided to send Wren to a boarding school. While there, Wren is able to dig into her mother's past and learn more about her family and the secrets surrounding them. She makes new friends, enemies, and love interests. This book is modeled after a quintessential coming of age novel.
So...I was totally bored by this novel. The romantic entanglements were boring, the mystery surrounding the girl's father was obvious from the beginning. The emphasis placed on the horse competition seemed irrelevant to the plot and could have been left out.
Wren was having the time of her life with her fun single mother in California. She loved the beach and playing her guitar. The only dark cloud was the identity of her father, whom her mother would never talk about. Wren's mother decides to go on an extended work assignment in another country and while there, she has decided to send Wren to a boarding school. While there, Wren is able to dig into her mother's past and learn more about her family and the secrets surrounding them. She makes new friends, enemies, and love interests. This book is modeled after a quintessential coming of age novel.
So...I was totally bored by this novel. The romantic entanglements were boring, the mystery surrounding the girl's father was obvious from the beginning. The emphasis placed on the horse competition seemed irrelevant to the plot and could have been left out.
April 5, 2017
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Wren's mother is going to Iceland for a work assign so Wren find herself at a prestigious east coast boarding school. Wren tries to make friends, find a romance all while trying to overcomer the mystery of the father she never met.
The book just felt so flat. Wren and her classmates just feel very two dimensional with even their problems appearing to be only on the surface. The school and it's drama feel generic and there was nothing to connect with.
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Wren's mother is going to Iceland for a work assign so Wren find herself at a prestigious east coast boarding school. Wren tries to make friends, find a romance all while trying to overcomer the mystery of the father she never met.
The book just felt so flat. Wren and her classmates just feel very two dimensional with even their problems appearing to be only on the surface. The school and it's drama feel generic and there was nothing to connect with.
April 14, 2016
This book was 200% better than its opening suggests. When I read the first page I didn't think I would like the style it was written in, but it actually was a really great book. The story line was solid and it was entertaining. It made my morning and afternoon commute painless because I could pass the time with reading. I would recommend it.
June 13, 2016
Overall, I'm from Nowhere was a decent book. I think that the answer to who Wren's father was turned out to be pretty conspicuous.Some parts felt as if they where thrown in and didn't need to be. Although, I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a quick read, boarding schools, horses,music, and a little romance.
November 20, 2015
This was just so cliched...
December 14, 2016
Readable. But the characterizations are shallow and the plot is predictable.
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