Random Review ~~ The Mason List by SD Hendrickson #FiveBlushReview #LateToTheParty
The Mason List
2015 Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist: Best Debut Author for The Mason List
An epic love. An epic hate. An epic story that would last a lifetime.
Today, 8:15 p.m.
I hurt. I hurt so deeply, I felt the pain searing in my bones and jabbing like a hot poker into my heart. I knew nothing would make it better as the memories pulled from the crevices of my mind, detailing the bad and the ugly, filling my thoughts with regret as I slipped into the darkness. . .
When I was eight, my mother was dying of cancer, my father lost his job, and the bank kicked us out of our house. I was forced to move to the strange town of Arlis, Texas where my father and I slept in our car in the hospital parking lot. Desperate and hopeless, we lived on fumes of our former life.
Then one night, everything changed forever. A knock on the car window brought a family into my life that I only wanted to shut out. I hated charity and I hated the Masons. Well, except one. He made it impossible to hate him.
Jess Mason had the biggest blue eyes and ornery smile of any boy I had ever seen. He was a ray of sunshine in my dark world. A boy full of adventure, dragging me across the meadow of Sprayberry Ranch; a beautiful Texas paradise full of horses and tree houses that got us into more trouble than anyone ever imagined.
Jess was my everything as a kid until we grew up and the rules changed. Instead of living happily ever after with a boy full of love. . . I destroyed it.
– Alex Tanner
Author Note: The Mason List is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of Alex Tanner from the age of six to twenty-six. The novel crosses the genres of Young Adult and New Adult. The Mason List is a standalone, 118,940 word, full-length novel.
LOUISA’S 5 BLUSH REVIEW
I am always late to the party!
I have had this book on my kindle for January 14th, 2015 – 4 days after it was released and my TBR list is beyond ridiculous. Someone mentioned this book in one of my many book groups, and I found the time and THANK GOD I did.
This book is such a beautiful story. It’s angsty; it’s heart breaking and heart warming all at the same time.
Alex’s life is falling apart, and only Jess can make her smile again. Even at the young age of 8, he’s the light in her dark.
This continues through their lives. Jess’s family has saved her and her family time and time again. But is she worthy of his friendship and love?
“Sometimes all we have is faith and hope, and you just have to trust it.”
This story is told in past and present; it keeps you guessing as to what’s going on in Jess & Alex’s current life. And not until the end do you feel it all fill your heart and soul. This book will give you a book hangover like no other. You need to soak it all in and let it resonate into your soul and take root.
I haven’t had a book make me feel this way in a while. A gut wrenching sob came out of me, more than once. A book that had me crying one moment and smiling like an idiot the next.
To believe this was a debut novel is outstanding. I look forward to going back and reading other books by this author.
Get The Mason List and savor every word.
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