Tully

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Summary: Tully - an inspiration
Review: Tully is my favourite book of all time, I have read it 4 times now and it still makes me cry. It is a very powerful book that will affect you for several days after you've read it. The story line is simple and easy to follow - it's about three girls (Tully, Jennifer and Julie), their friendship and how this affects their lives. The events which ocurr and the way the girls deal with them are what makes the book so special and thought provoking. If you have to buy one book in life - buy Tully, you won't regret it!

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Summary: My favorite book ...period
Review: This book has gotten me through the roughest times of teenage life and young adulthood. It is the most touching novel I have ever read...period. I cannot recommend any other books more except maybe Nick Bantock's Trilogy. This makes an excellent gift for any young woman struggling with beginning her own life.

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Summary: I don't have to read another book
Review: Great book! Tully was such a real person, you could especially feel all of the teenage angst! This was written in a great voice. I could really sense how emotionally confused she was. I'd give this book to anyone that likes to read!

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Summary: My FAVORITE book
Review: I absolutely love Tully. I could not put it down. When my aunt gave it to me to read, I dind't think I would like it, but once I started, it was impossible to stop. It's one of those books that when you get to the end, you're truly sad because you can't read on.

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Summary: Who can't relate?
Review: This books is simply one of the best books l have ever read. Anyone who reads this will l'm sure be able to relate to some part of Tully's life. As soon as l picked it up l counldn't put it down, it made me laugh and cry and everyone sould read it.

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Summary: Tully close to home
Review: Tully....what can I say. Tully is me! I could not put her down. She was bought up by a hatefull mother, bitter and twisted, no wonder she won't let anyone in her heart and her thoughts. Two men enter her life and she has to decide between them both. A tragedy with one of her two closest friends changes her life forever.......

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Summary: simply one of the best
Review: I have read this book so many times I have lost count. Yet every time I am still carried away by the life of Tully Makker. I believe there is a part of every one in her, I know there is of me.

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Summary: AN excellent read!
Review: Tully was an amazing book. I read it non-stop then gave it to a friend. She read it in 3 days, and then she gave it to a friend who read it in 3 days. It is now four months since I gave the book to a friend and I still don't have it back, everyone wants to read it. I am probably one of the few males who read this book and I encourage more to read it. If the cover wasn't so ugly it would probably sell more copies. Overall I found the book to be captivating.

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Summary: "Love is a laugh. Seriously."
Review: Tully is a fantastic, brilliant character who contains a little bit of every emotion possible. Because Tully is such an amazing and intricate character, it is easy to draw parallels between yourself and 'Makker'. Because of Tully's forgotten childhood she is constantly being torn between right and wrong. In 'Tully', Simons illustrates just how many life altering decisions a person can make. She weaves a rich tale of the destruction, hatred, and ultimate happiness that love and fate can bring. Simons shows off an extremely impressive writing style that shows how capable she is of describing emotion, by no means a small feat. This book explores true suffering whilst wringing your emotions for every last drop of water they may hold. Within 'Tully', everyone will find a little piece of heaven. Miss Simons...I applaud you. "Here lies a tear from which the glass has cut my heart out and yet i see no blood. I see a tear,disguised as a rain drop which has appeared from the mist of nothing, it cannot be from heaven or hell for they do not recognize me there." - HPCD. Inspired by 'Tully'.

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Summary: A gal's best friend on a rainy day.
Review: I picked up Tully at a book sale on a rainy day off work when I took salvage at my local shopping mall. I am an avid book worm and had come to realise that I couldn't remember the last time I actually sat down to read...and Tully brought me the reminder I needed of why I loved to lose myself in books. I got home from shopping, curled up on the couch with a cup of tea and didn't move for the next 8 hours when incidentally, I was reaching for the Kleenex.

Tully takes you on an emotional rollercoaster of a ride that I think every woman can relate to at some point in her life - an alarmingly unhappy childhood, the loss of a best friend and the heartbreakingly delicacy of being in love with two men at the same time. Beautifully written and pieced together so intricately, I turned the pages and walked beside Tully as she battled with the insanity of trying to decipher life and conquering the lessons that we all have to learn at one point or another.

This debut novel from Paulina Simons had me intrigued from the first line and kept me wrapped around it's little finger right to the closing word. I don't think I have, since reading that book, had my emotions wrung so completely. One minute my insides were screaming for Tully's pain while the next moment saw me positively glowing for the small victories she encountered in her battle to keep her head above water and not drown in the mediocracy of being "that girl" growing up in a small Kansas town. And when it seems that Tully finally has her life on track after such an unforgiving and violent upbringing, Jack comes home and brings with him the unbearable reminder that life was never meant to be easy...

I gave this book to my best friend for Christmas that year and it has a primary position in my personal library for frequent reference. It has been my dream for as long as I can remember to be a writer and although I am only amateur now, I hope that one day I will be able to pen a story that will affect others the way Tully did to me.