Sunday, March 8, 2020









Finding Frances


by Kelly Vincent


 


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GENRE: Contemporary YA


 


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BLURB:


 


Retta Brooks thinks her life is on track after convincing her overprotective mom to stop home-schooling her and allow her go to Buckley High. She comes home from a night out with friends to find that her whole world has changed, and she has extremely hard decisions to make. Not to mention finding the answers to questions some people would rather she not know. Is she strong enough for what lies ahead?







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EXCERPT:
 

I Googled everything I knew about the crash. I had the rough date, so I searched for news records of wrecks then. But there were tons, and the old newspaper records required payment. I found a few sites that would let me search accident reports by state, which made me realize I didn’t even know for certain where the crash had happened.

 

I did know that right after it happened, Mom had moved us to Buckley and rented this house. I’d been born in Lincoln, Nebraska, so maybe it had happened in Nebraska. Yet I’d always assumed we had already been living somewhere in Iowa. Maybe it was Mom’s family who was from Nebraska. But where else in Iowa had we lived? Des Moines, since that was the newspaper I’d found?

 

Also, it occurred to me that it was weird we didn’t have much money. If all those people had died, surely Mom inherited money or got insurance money. It made no sense.

 

Googling everybody who had died brought up records of long-dead people with similar names and nothing more. What if it was all made up? What if those weren’t their names at all? What if I was adopted—or worse, kidnapped? That would be crazy. But it also would explain why Mom was so paranoid.

 

Could that really be it?




REVIEW
I must say that I really enjoyed the main character Retta. She was amazing. She faced so many challenges in her young life. She dealt with many things in her life that made her only stronger.  A lot of struggles and secrets that she overcame and survived from. I thought the story was full of mystery and intrigue that held me captivated throughout the story. The storyline was fresh and different, which sometimes is hard to come up with. Then add in the amazing Retta and you get one amazing story. This is a new author for me and I for one must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this story. it was clever and well planned out. Amazing... I highly recommend this one!





AUTHOR Bio and Links:
 
Kelly Vincent wrangles data weekdays and spends the rest of her time playing with words. She grew up in Oklahoma but has moved around quite a bit, with Glasgow, Scotland being her favorite stop. She now lives near Seattle with three cats who definitely help her write her stories. She’s also working toward the Red Earth Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Oklahoma City University.
 
Website: www.kellyvincent.net
Blog: www.kellyvincent.net/blog
Twitter and Instagram: @kvbooks
 
Buy Links:
 
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Finding-Frances-Kelly-Vincent/dp/1509229035/
 
 
Also available on Apple Books. Will be on Kobo and Google soon.
 
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