Saving Francesca, (Paperback)

from allureofbooks

Melina Marchetta is one of the best consistently amazing authors that I've come across, and Saving Francesca is no exception to this statement! For no reason really, I kept putting off reading it. Then, in a reading trade I made with Ashley at Basically Amazing Books (an "if I read this, then you...

from Ash600

This book is beautiful. I don't ever recall myself describing a book as beautiful, but this one surely fits the adjective to a T. A wonderful coming-of-age story casting the realest characters I've ever read about. It was very hard to be part of that group of people so flawed, so different fro...

from helgagrace

Francesca is accustomed to struggling with her vibrant, overbearing mother, until the day that Mia doesn't get out of bed. To make things worse, Francesca is the only one in her group of friends to begin 11th grade at St. Sebastian's, a formerly all-male school still adjusting to its transition t...

from Nazgullie

I haven't read anything that depicts depression and how it affects the loved ones of the depressed quite this honestly. The story is touching, but not overwhelming, and having dealt with depression myself, and with relatives who have been depressed, I can say that when one person is affected, eve...

from Tatiana_G

Within just a few days (and books) Melina Marchetta has become one of my favorite YA writers. Just like my other favorite author E. Lockhart, she writes about teens and she knows what she is talking about, unlike some YA authors who should not be named. Let's take Saving Francesca. The story is s...