Title: Paper Planes and Other Things We Lost
Authors: Michele G. Miller & Mindy Hayes
Source: eARC from the authors for review
Est Release Date: June 2016
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On June 18, 1993, Flight 397 crashed off the coast of Long Island. But this
story isn’t about the crash. Not completely.
This is a story about two high school seniors living very different lives,
who share one connection: they both lost parents on that fateful flight.
Slowly, letters bridge the gap between California and Pennsylvania as Ruby
Kaminski and Brett Pratt find a way to remember the past while looking toward
the future.
This is a story about hope, paper planes, and the other things they lost.
My take...
I haven’t told her there’s this girl in California who makes me feel the
same things she does using only words.
**
This book brought back sooo many memories for me and me Jr High days. I had
a pen pal that to this day I am still friends with. I still talk to him
regularly and share in the joys of his life, wife and child. So, when reading
this book, my emotions were overwhelmed in such an amazing way. As you get
older you tend to put memories of the past to the side in favor of the new ones
that are happening right in front of you. But when a certain song plays, or you
happen to read a book that has some similar events to your past, it brings it
all flooding back. Don't you just love that feeling? Especially when it is such
a wonderful memory?
**
It’s one thing for him to miss her. It’s another when he becomes his
heartache and falls into a black hole I can’t save him from.
**
As for this book, I couldn't get enough of it. It was so quirky and fun, so
beautiful and tragic. At just the right times it would have me smiling after
reading a scene that brought tears to my eyes. Just when you thought you knew
where the book was headed, it would cut you off and send you in a whole new
direction. It keeps you on your toes, that’s for sure.
I hope when you read this book you fall in love with Brett and Ruby just as
quickly and just as hard as I did. Both are characters that I can promise will
stay with you even after the book is over and done. They become a part of you
after you read all they have gone through and all they are going through. There
is so much to love about them both. When they write to each other you feel the
chemistry radiating off their letters. You notice the first signs of love long
before they do. Ah!! I am just so giddy about this book!!!
PAPER PLANES AND OTHER THINGS WE LOST is one of those crazy, beautiful
tales you don’t want to let go of even after you laid it down. It will call to
you. It will bring your mind wondering back to the story and the characters,
time and time again, wishing you hadn’t finished it so quickly. Definitely one
of my most favorite reads of 2016. 5 Stars!
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