Fade Far Away (An Avon Flare Book)

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Summary: Fade Far Away...
Review: I found Sienna's story fascinating. I started reading and read it straight through in one two-hour sitting. I was caught up in Sienna's emotions, her feelings of being so incredibly close to her father one moment, so dreadfully far the next. Sienna's devotion to her father since childhood grows very strong, her appreciation for his art even stronger. She is an artist herself (although she doesn't think so), and has always been encouraged by her controlling mother and distant father to forget about the details and draw what she feels, and then, just maybe, she might become an artist. But just as she and her father begin to become even the slightest bit close, she learns that he has a brain tumor. She is overcome with many emotions, most centering on her guilt of never really knowing her father, always in his shadow. As soon as Hugh finds that his tumor is malignant, he commisions Sienna to take him to their privately owned island so he can die in peace. On the long journey to Blue Cove Island, Sienna learns many things of her father, ranging from his extramarital affairs to the fact that his first love was painting, not sculpture. Most importantly, Sienna learns that she and her father are similar in many ways. But the vast differences between them that she finds so appalling she must forgive so she can finally let go and love her father for who he is. An excellent read for anyone in the mood for a mature, touching teenage novel.

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Summary: The best book you'll probaly ever read
Review: I picked up this book by chance while wandering around my local library for a good book. Though I enjoy the romance genre more than others, this book touched me so much and had me crying so much from beginning to end. This book is for anyone especially for people who feel that they're parents don't love them cause as you'll read that your parents always love you they just have trouble showing sometimes as the main charcter of this book discovered. Go Pick up this book! Trust me it's amazing!

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Summary: Must-Read for Teens With Terminally-Ill or Suicided Parent
Review: I read this book because my 12-year-old only-child male godchild's father has a brain tumor and I wondered if this book might address any issues that he is facing. It does; in a beautiful and uplifting way that makes its dying father-character's suicide understandable and a kind of affirmation of life. It also treats with unsentimental compassion the mother's denial that the man she has held at the center of her world could be dying.

This story throws together the father and only-daughter characters in the crucible of the father's terminal illness in such a way that they finally connect and she accepts the humanness of her parents while *blossoming out of* her own perfectionism and fear to risk being human herself. Heartwarming. Moving. Courage-inspiring.

I read it straight through in one sitting. Compellingly written!

I was moved to tears toward the end, not by sadness but because I identify with the courage and vulnerability it takes to be human and to accept the limitations and recognize the oh-so-human, flawed love that we earthlings bring to our life-journeys.

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Summary: Must Read Novel for Teens
Review: This has got to be the best book I've ever read. It's really deep, and sometimes depressing. I feel for Sienna. It's one of the only books I was ever really in to. Great great great book. I love it.