This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
FaithWords (April 16, 2009)
by
Anne Dayton & May Vanderbilt
MY REVIEW:
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is another installment of The Miracle Girls series. As principal character, Christine delivers a huge dose of teenage angst. Not only is she still grieving her mother’s untimely death in an automobile accident but she is forced to deal with her father’s frequent absence and his new fiance and her daughter. In addition, the dynamics in Christine’s closely knit group of friends is changing as they each find a boyfriend.
Throughout the book, Christine’s primary goal is to stop her father’s wedding but everything she tries seems to backfire. Her first taste of romance is sweet but disappointing and her resistance to her friends’ attempts to share the gospel only makes her more miserable.
At first I was not sure how the title had any relevance to the content of the book but quickly realized that it applied on at least three different aspects of the plot. I don’t want to give away more so I won’t elaborate. Read Breaking Up Is Hard To Do for yourself to see if you agree.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
ANNE DAYTON graduated from Princeton University and is earning her master’s degree in English literature at New York University. She works for a New York publishing company and lives in Brooklyn.
MAY VANDERBILT graduated from Baylor University and went on to earn a master’s degree in fiction from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in San Francisco, where she writes about food, fashion, and nightlife in the Bay Area.
Together, the two women are the authors of Miracle Girls
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Ana, Christine, Riley, and Zoe have grown closer than ever over the past few months, but summer is over and it’s time to put their friendship to the test.
It’s been a little over a year since Christine Lee’s mom passed away in a tragic car accident. Now her dad is engaged to Candace–“The Bimbo”–and Christine couldn’t be less thrilled. When her attitude starts to take a toll on her schoolwork, the administration forces her to attend counseling sessions. At least she gets to skip gym class!
But with her father’s wedding inching closer, Christine is growing even more bitter. To make matters worse, the Miracle Girls are beginning to drift apart. Christine’s anger and the pressures of high school threaten to break the girls up when they need each other the most. Will they find a way to join together to help Christine come to terms with her mother’s death . . . and her father’s remarriage?
If you would like to read the first chapter of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, go HERE
Visit Ann and May at their website.
