MixedI almost DNF this book at 50%. ... I can't say I enjoyed it. ... It's heartbreaking. It's traumatic over and over and over again. ... would I recommend it? I don't know.
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Releasing 10 (2025)
Others: Mixed He was her anchor. She was his storm. Together, they were everything—and it still wasn't enough. From Chloe Walsh, the international bestselling author of the viral Boys of Tommen series, comes a devastatingly raw, achingly beautiful love story that will rip your heart out and patch it back together. Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she carries her burdens and her trauma on her own. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life… Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far beyond his years. A young man with a sharp mind and a firm code of ethics, he sees something in Lizzie Young that he can't resist. He wants to be her everything and shoulder her burden. And Lizzie wants that too. Lizzie and Hugh's bond seems unbreakable — their chemistry is electric, their love is potent, and their connection is soul deep – but even the truest love can be shaken by forces beyond control.
- ISBN:
- 9781464248528
- Length:
- 767 pages
Genres: romance, young adult
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