ISBN: 9781848450950
Publisher: Mira Ink
Pages: 336
‘If
she’d waited less than two weeks, she’d be June who died in June. But I guess
my sister didn’t consider that.’
Harper Scott’s older sister has always been the perfect one so when June takes her own life a week before her high school graduation, sixteen-year-old Harper is devastated. Everyone’s sorry, but no one can explain why.
When her divorcing parents decide to split her sister’s ashes into his-and-her urns, Harper takes matters into her own hands. She’ll steal the ashes and drive cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going, California.
Enter Jake Tolan. He’s a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession and nothing in common with Harper’s sister. But Jake had a connection with June, and when he insists on joining them, Harper’s just desperate enough to let him. With his alternately charming and infuriating demeanour and his belief that music can see you through anything, he might be exactly what she needs.
Except June wasn’t the only one hiding something. Jake’s keeping a secret that has the power to turn Harper’s life upside down again.
Harper Scott’s older sister has always been the perfect one so when June takes her own life a week before her high school graduation, sixteen-year-old Harper is devastated. Everyone’s sorry, but no one can explain why.
When her divorcing parents decide to split her sister’s ashes into his-and-her urns, Harper takes matters into her own hands. She’ll steal the ashes and drive cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going, California.
Enter Jake Tolan. He’s a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession and nothing in common with Harper’s sister. But Jake had a connection with June, and when he insists on joining them, Harper’s just desperate enough to let him. With his alternately charming and infuriating demeanour and his belief that music can see you through anything, he might be exactly what she needs.
Except June wasn’t the only one hiding something. Jake’s keeping a secret that has the power to turn Harper’s life upside down again.
I
received Saving June by Hannah Harrington from Mira Ink for review. I really
enjoyed reading Saving June, even though it wasn’t what I had initially expected.
From the blurb, I had expected it to be quite raw, edgy and controversial, but
it was actually fairly tame compared to some other YA books within the same
genre, (such as Entangled & Torn by Cat Clarke and Before I Fall by Lauren
Oliver). My favourite character was Harper because of her brutal honesty, wit
and sarcasm which made what potentially could have been a very morbid,
depressing book into an essential, summery read for all ages! I really like the
cover of Saving June as it not only portrays an actual event within the book
but, it also represents Harper’s ongoing concealment of her feelings towards
both her sister and her sister’s death.
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