This Is Not a Love Story
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A Harmony Ink Press Young Adult Title When fifteen-year-old Romeo's mother leaves one day and doesn't return, he finds himself homeless and trying to survive on the streets. Mute and terrified, his silence makes him vulnerable, and one night he is beaten by a gang of other kids, only to be rescued by a boy who pledges to take care of him. Julian is barely two years older than Romeo. A runaway from an abusive home, he has had to make some difficult choices and sells himself on the street to survive. Taking care of Romeo changes him, gives him a purpose in life, gives him hope, and he tries to be strong and keep his troubles with drugs behind him. But living as they do is slowly destroying him, and he begins to doubt he can be strong enough. This is the story of their struggle to find a way off the streets and stay together at all costs. But when events threaten to tear them apart, it is Romeo who must find the strength within himself to help Julian (and not let their love story turn into a Shakespearean tragedy).
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1 released bookLove Story Universe is a 3-book series first released in 2014 with contributions by Suki Fleet and Amneris Di Cesare.
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irtózatosan untam, de nagy vonalakban kíváncsi voltam a történetre - ami jó kezekben lehetett volna szívszorítóan fájdalmas is -, úgyhogy átlapoztam, de még így is azt hittem, sosem érek a végére. ha nem lgbt utcagyerekek lett volna a témája, akkor simán félrehajítom.
Barely 3 stars. I'm glad this wasn't my first Suki Fleet novel, because it probably would have been my last. I almost DNF'd, but skimmed my way through the last 50% hoping that it would get better (it didn't). I have no problems reading dark stories, and teenage homelessness is an important issue that shouldn't be ignored. BUT. The novel is unrelentingly bleak, and the plot doesn't really build to anything. Bad things happen, more bad things happen, and then slightly less bad things happen. And then it's over very suddenly, with a time jump that gave me whiplash. I feel like Fleet owed the readers a few glimpses of Julian and Romeo happy together, or building their lives together but we were denied that grace. Also, there was a plot twist at the end that was resolved off the page after a lot of buildup that would have benefited from a few chapters of additional development. It felt like the author hit her word count and then just stopped, with an epilogue tacked on at the end to let us know everything was okay now.I've enjoyed many of Fleet's other books including [b:Foxes 44778912 Foxes Suki Fleet https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1554316819s/44778912.jpg 46229530] and [b:Light Up the Dark 43424860 Light Up the Dark Suki Fleet https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1546289073s/43424860.jpg 53954816], and I was so excited that this book was finally back in print. But sadly it was disappointing.
