Only the Pretty Lies

By: Rebekah Crane

Narrated by: Madeline Lake

A young love story about breaking painful legacies by the author of The Upside of Falling Down.

Convention doesn’t carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn’t in Amoris Westmore’s family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Why should she?

Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris’s first crush, and their last goodbye still stings. But Jamison stirs more than bittersweet memories. One of the few Black students in Alder Creek, Jamison sees Amoris’s idyllic town through different eyes. He encourages Amoris to look a little closer, too. When Jamison discovers a racist mural at Alder Creek High, Amoris’s worldview is turned upside down.

Now Amoris must decide where she stands and whom she stands by, threatening her love for the boy who stole her heart years ago. Maybe Alder Creek isn’t the town Amoris thinks it is. She’s certainly no longer the girl she used to be.

©2021 by Rebekah Crane. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

slowly drew me in

I almost didn't continue listening to this book as it seemed to be a slow start. But as the true messages of the book began to reveal themselves, I became very invested in the journey. I wish this could become required reading for our youth as it see's their challenges and offers them insight into the perspective of others while identifying with the journey of others.

Thought provoking

Thought provoking and eye opening - would recommend to any one who wants to understand others whose life experiences are different than our own.