Blog Tour: What Beauty There Is

I was thrilled to be asked to take part in another excellent blog tour hosted by Dave over at The Write Reads. The biggest thank you to Dave for organising another brilliant tour, and for Penguin for providing an eARC of What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson. This book covers a lot of heavy topics so definitely look into those before picking it up. There are a lot of trigger warnings listed on The StoryGraph for this one.

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The Blurb:
When everything you love is in danger, how long can you keep running to
survive?

Life can be brutal
Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.

Jack knew it
Jack Dahl has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he’d die for.
Their mother is gone, and their funds are quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a
choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father
to prison.

So did I
Ava lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father, a merciless
man, has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one.

Did I feel the flutter of wings when Jack and I met? Did I sense the coming
tornado?
But now Ava wants to break the rules – to let Jack in and open her heart. Then she
discovers that Jack and her father are stalking the same money, and suddenly Ava
is faced with a terrible choice: remain silent or speak out and help the brothers
survive.

Looking back, I think I did . . .

The Characters:
This book follows brothers Jack and Matty, whose father is in prison and whose mother is gone. The brothers are having to fend for themselves in scary and difficult situations, which I was never sure how they would turn out. Jack will do anything to keep his younger brother Matty safe, including things which result in getting himself injured. There are people out to hurt them, but there is someone who will try and help them in any way that she can: Ava. Throughout the book we know that there are secrets that Jack and Ava are keeping from each other, and from Matty, but they all believe that they are keeping them to keep everyone safe. The characters in this book were very intriguing, and it was interesting to see some events from different perspectives.

The Story:
This was a gripping story which focused a lot on Jack and Matty’s relationship, with Ava becoming more and more part of their lives. There were a lot of shocking moments in this book, which made it even more gripping. This was a pretty fast paced book, taking place over a short period of time. The snowy setting and the different locations in this book made it very atmospheric.

Final Thoughts:
Overall I gave this book a 3 star rating. It was good but I didn’t enjoy it as much as I had hoped I would. This was a pretty gripping book which did have me hooked at a lot of crucial moments throughout. This is a pretty fast-paced YA thriller that tackles a lot of heavy topics. This book comes out on 8th April.

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