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No Perfect Places

By: Steven Salvatore
Narrated by: Kirt Graves, Rachel Jacobs
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Bloomsbury presents No Perfect Places by Steven Salvatore, read by Kirt Graves and Rachel Jacobs.

From lauded author Steven Salvatore comes a moving YA novel about twins whose incarcerated father dies and leaves behind a life-changing secret, perfect for fans of I’ll Give You the Sun and Euphoria.

When their father went to prison last year for embezzlement, twins Alex and Olly Brucke lost everything: their house, their college funds, most of their friends, and even their mother, who’s so focused on making ends meet that she’s never around anymore. The only thing they can count on lately is each other.

But after their father dies unexpectedly in prison, the twins start to fracture. Alex is spiraling, skipping classes to spend all of her time drunk or high. And Olly is struggling with a secret his dad ordered him to keep: they have a secret half-brother named Tyler.

When Tyler shows up in their lakeside town for the summer, hoping to get to know his siblings, Olly hides the truth from Alex. But as Alex and Tyler start to form a friendship, the lies become harder to juggle. If they can’t confront their father’s past and fix their relationship, Olly and Alex each risk losing two siblings forever.

No Perfect Places is a thought-provoking novel about grief, family secrets, and figuring out how to belong against the odds.©2023 Steven Salvatore (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Death & Dying Difficult Situations Family Family & Relationships LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction
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If you were a fan of "And They Lived..." and you were looking forward to "When Life Gives You Lemons" may I now introduce you to the crown jewel that resides in between those beautiful gems.

Let me start by saying that I have read all three of these books that take place in the universe that Steven Salvatore has created. "And They Lived..." was a brilliant opening salvo in this loosely linked series of books. His most recent work "When Love Gives You Lemons" is a fun and lovely tale which will warm your soul. However this book, is unlike anything Steven has ever published.

If his other books gave you bits and pieces of who Steven is, and what he has been through...then this book? This is a crystal clear window into his soul. It is him laying bare his heart to his readers in an attempt to get you all to think. To think about love, betrayal, trauma, grief, forgiveness, and the flaws of being human. And the glistening sheen of frosting on this multi-layered cake is a love between two people that is so pure, it makes you forget about everything else awful in the world.

Olly and Alex, twins, two very different sides of the same coin, lead you on a journey of how to recover from the worst things that could happen to young people. Betrayal from people you love, the loss of people you love, and above all, how to recover from that. How to continue to live with it all, to love again, to trust again, to forgive again.

This book may not have the traditional happy ending that some people crave. But I think it does something more important that he slightly missed out on in his previous work. They may not get "and they lived happily ever after" but what they do get; "and they lived". That is the most important thing to take away from this, life goes on, people are flawed, but you must not under any circumstance, let the world take away your humanity and your capacity to love.

It saddens me to see not as many people have engaged with this book, I hope they do, I hope you see this review and give this story a chance. Because it's honestly Steven's best work. Out of any of the books of his that I've read, nothing comes close to this. A complete masterpiece and I am so grateful to Steven for being so open and exposed with us readers about his own trauma.

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