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"You can't battle someone who's lost everything."
Tijan seems to have a type when it comes to her characters. Another girl who's "dead inside" and has a vice to avoid her feelings. The vice in this case being Ryan.
There's always some sort of family drama, mostly with the parents neglecting their daughter, which in turn makes the heroine cold and unnecessarily harsh.
Another recurring factor with her heroines is that they're always trying to be very deep and philosophical. Case in point; Mac kept g ...more
Tijan seems to have a type when it comes to her characters. Another girl who's "dead inside" and has a vice to avoid her feelings. The vice in this case being Ryan.
There's always some sort of family drama, mostly with the parents neglecting their daughter, which in turn makes the heroine cold and unnecessarily harsh.
Another recurring factor with her heroines is that they're always trying to be very deep and philosophical. Case in point; Mac kept g ...more
Ryan's Bed by Tijan is stunning. It's gripping, real, and raw. The depiction of loss and the effects it has on both an individual and the family are meticulous, as are how those in the friends and acquaintance circle may react. And in true Tijan fashion, she also manages to entertain the reader. She had me by the feels, and heart and head. I don't really know how to describe the book without giving too much away, but I have to give her kudos for managing the teen drama as well the hard hitting e
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Ryan's Bed was a really great book and the last line is really intense. Tijan has a wonderful ability to create stories with deep characters that are going through some heavy things. Mackenzie Malcolm's life just traumatically changed when she found her twin sister Willow's body after she killed herself. She met Ryan and Peach Jensen that day and her parents took her and her younger brother Robbie to stay the night. Mackenzie ends up crawling into Ryan's bed that night accidentally and it really
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The story was heartbreaking, the horrible loss, loneliness and pain of losing the person you shared the womb with. The slow painful process of recovery from that loss. This was a truly amazing book, kudos to Tijan for her ability to understand the experiences. This book could help people who are considering taking their lives to understand the pain they leave behind
The story was heartbreaking, the horrible loss, loneliness and pain of losing the person you shared the womb with. The slow painful process of recovery from that loss. This was a truly amazing book, kudos to Tijan for her ability to understand the experiences. This book could help people who are considering taking their lives to understand the pain they leave behind
This book affected me so deeply! The last line though! OMG!
Dec 18, 2017
rmnt
marked it as to-read
Jun 16, 2020
Ro
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