Taking Chances eBook Deanna Frances
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Sydney Baker harbors a painful secret, and it’s not just physical scars she keeps hidden. Just when her world begins to crumble, Sydney receives some startling news. Her grandmother’s farm is now hers to own. She coaxes her family to pack up their city life and move to a small town outside of Chicago.
A new home and a new school could mean an end to the terrors that plague Sydney’s life, but will it really be the safe haven she hoped for?
On the first day of her junior year, Sydney meets Spencer Stevenson, another student who has family issues of his own. As they each take solace in their growing relationship, old threats emerge to tear them apart. To her horror, Sydney realizes that even though she and her family have moved to a new town, her family life itself will never change.
Taking Chances eBook Deanna Frances
The idea is good but the plot is lacking. It doesn't flow well and the characters are not well developed. It is one of those books where the characters are saying "I love you" and it feels like they just met. Also, the protagonist is supposed to be 17 but the way it is written it seems like she is 13. As much as she has gone through in her life, her character should be more mature.Product details
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Taking Chances eBook Deanna Frances Reviews
Taking Chances is a great first book by Deanna Frances. While it deals with some sensitive issues that teens may face, it approaches them in an open, sensitive way.
While I read this kindle book by borrowing it through a lending site, I will continue to look for more by this promising author.
Taking Chances is the first novel by young author Deanna Frances about 17 year-old Sydney Baker's struggle for freedom from an abusive step-father and quest for a protective, cherished romance with high school sweetheart Spencer who, with his own struggle, seeks freedom from the grief of losing his family to an accident.
I met the very affable Ms. Frances at the June 2013 Chicago LitFest and had the pleasure of speaking with her about Taking Chances and her aspirations. Having experienced high school myself back in the Stone Age and having raised a daughter and son through their own high school years, I couldn't help but wonder what kind experience Taking Chances might render.
So I bought it and I'm happy to tell prospective readers that this short, first novel works from beginning to end. Further, I believe it is especially well suited for the teen-young adult audience.
Frances is in charge of her story throughout, although there is some occasional and forgivable untidiness. For example, on page 92 of the print edition, Sydney drops off a couple of friends for homecoming dress shopping an her way to work and this event has no apparent resolution of follow-through so what happens to her friends and why?
These minor distractions notwithstanding, Ms. Frances does remarkably well with both word craft and story craft. Her prose is transparent, speaking in a high school students voice but without the jargon. Further, she keeps characters and action threads moving and intersecting smoothly. I found myself engrossed in Sydney's experience while the pages kept turning.
She also handles the particular challenge for fiction writers of grafting music into the characters' experience in meaningful ways for the reader. Hence, Taking Chances by Céline Dion is the connective theme for Sydney and Spencer as they endure their respective challenges and find a hope-filled future; Ms. Frances enables the song to resonate the emotional tone and tenor throughout the novel.
In closing, I give Ms. Frances much credit for telling an engaging story of teenagers battered and wounded by life's realistic and some times tragic risks of the heart, Taking Chances on hope and love to claim comfort and freedom.
I hope we see more fiction from Ms. Frances.
The idea is good but the plot is lacking. It doesn't flow well and the characters are not well developed. It is one of those books where the characters are saying "I love you" and it feels like they just met. Also, the protagonist is supposed to be 17 but the way it is written it seems like she is 13. As much as she has gone through in her life, her character should be more mature.
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