{"id":10831,"date":"2019-06-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:14:16","slug":"the-link-between-wild-and-crooked-surprises-everyone-yalit-by-leah-thomas-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10831","title":{"rendered":"The link between WILD AND CROOKED surprises everyone, #YAlit by Leah Thomas (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Old scandals have their own life span,
\nroles of tragic hero and heartless villain already set –
\nbut what if there’s more to the story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Son of a murdered man, Gus tries to push past cerebral palsy<\/a>‘s effects on his body and small-town gossip about his moms, but high school is still brutal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Called back to dad’s hometown after Grandma’s stroke, Kalyn enrolls in school using another name, her dad being a murderer in prison and all that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Gus and Kalyn meet and become friendly before they figure out the connection\u2026 and that’s just the start of this wild ride of secrets, outright lies, tangled friendships, and squinting at the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever befriended someone whose past needs forgetting?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Wild and Crooked \/ Leah Thomas. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also by this author: Because You’ll Never Meet Me<\/em> – no-spoiler recommendation here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Old scandals have their own life span, roles of tragic hero and heartless villain already set – but what if there’s more to the story? Son of a murdered man, Gus tries to push past cerebral palsy‘s effects on his body and small-town gossip about his moms, but high school is still brutal. Called back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,7,4,11,20,5,16,18,40,44,185,43,208,187,27,49,184,193,15,9,21,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-growing-up","tag-kentucky","tag-lgbtq","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Wild-and-Crooked.jpg?fit=420%2C634&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11376,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/11376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}