Pub. Date: First published, June 12th 2012;
Paperback pub. June 4th, 2013
Publisher: Atria Books
Hardcover/Paperback/ebook
272 pages
I expected Between You
and Me to be a fairly light, summer beach read. It’s not. While there is
some humor, the novel and the characters in the novel are not happy. This is a
heart wrenching, haunting story that I found powerful and engrossing.
Growing up, cousins Kelsey and Logan Wade were thick as
thieves. Fifteen years later, Logan has done the adult thing. Done with college
and stuck in an uninspiring job, she’s bored. The last thing Logan expects on
her 27th birthday is a call from Kelsey’s mom asking her to LA to
visit the recently dumped, and now uber famous, Kelsey. Dropping everything,
Logan’s curiosity and need to get out of her tedium, sets an entire train of
events in motion. With Logan by her side, Kelsey takes control of her life and
career, going for what she wants, and doing what she wants, for the first time.
But, when her choices send her life spiraling out of control, the girls have to
stick together, or allow Kelsey’s parents to tear them apart, again.
Kelsey Wade is more exposed than a Kardashian. Add in an
eventual meltdown and the worst mom/dadager in the world, Between You and Me makes you feel like you’re watching an episode
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