{"id":5082,"date":"2015-02-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2015-02-19T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:14:47","slug":"blues-for-zoey-by-robert-paul-weston-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5082","title":{"rendered":"Blues for Zoey, by Robert Paul Weston (book review) – money, trust & rock music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Saving money<\/a> from his boring summer job –
\nnot for a car,
\nnot for college…<\/p>\n

Kaz loves his mom, protects his little sister, misses his late dad all the time. So much on his shoulders, yet he’ll help Zoey with her burdens, going on trust (so dangerous, love and trust).<\/p>\n

Find this February release at your local library<\/a> or favorite independent bookstore<\/a> to see what twists and turns their story takes, and check out the author’s cleverly designed website – here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How honest are you… with yourself, above all?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Blues for Zoey \/ Robert Paul Weston. Flux Books, 2015. \u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Kaz hopes that the girl carrying a big crazy cross made of metal, toys, and bones will make his summer less boring, but the teen has no idea how Zoey’s wanderings in his gritty new neighborhood will truly affect him.<\/p>\n

Half Japanese-American, half Barbadian, Kaz is 100% concerned with the sleep disorder that’s struck his mom – she thinks he’s working at the Sit’n’Spin to save up for college, but he’s earmarked the money for a pricey sleep specialist so he and little Nomi get their mom back.<\/p>\n

His boss warns Kaz not to let the white girl with dreads and that cross-thing into the laundromat, his friends in the family’s old neighborhood say that she’s trouble, but the teen is intrigued by Zoey, the odd rood rattler that she makes music with, the long-dead rock musician who used one first.<\/p>\n

A chance encounter with a TV producer opens an opportunity for Kaz to get the money for Mom’s last-chance specialist, but…<\/p>\n

Is Kaz an honest guy?
\nIs anyone really honest about with himself about what’s important in life?
\nIs that blood they’re mopping up in the alley behind Sit’n’Spin?<\/p>\n

Raucous party, alt rock anthems, bad behavior, good intentions, identity – Kaz has lots on his mind these days, but it’s Zoe who has his heart (and other relevant body parts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saving money from his boring summer job – not for a car, not for college… Kaz loves his mom, protects his little sister, misses his late dad all the time. So much on his shoulders, yet he’ll help Zoey with her burdens, going on trust (so dangerous, love and trust). Find this February release at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[237,19],"tags":[90,22,75,11,20,5,37,16,18,40,43,27,49,86,31,15,21,57,73,35,3],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","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=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}