Sam opens her eyes at the wrong time, and she gets a face full of water. “How do you know?” she splutters, because she can’t believe that. He doesn’t live with them because her mom won’t let him. “Sam.” That means don’t even start.
i think the relationship with the mother will be a focal
point throughout this book. already we’re seeing some “cliche” ish things such as sam blaming her mother for her fathers lack of presence in her life. i know this book has some other elements like that such as the crush on climber trainer guy sam develops partly as a result of missing a strong paternal role model in her life. we’ll see how effectively these tropes are leveraged.
