{"id":5158,"date":"2015-02-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:10:36","slug":"opposite-of-love-by-sarah-scheerger-book-review-goodbye-letter-forever-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5158","title":{"rendered":"Opposite of Love, by Sarah Scheerger (book review) – goodbye letter, forever? help!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Gone. Just… gone.
\nNo forewarning, phone disconnected,
\nHow can the love of your life disappear so completely?<\/p>\n

Chase and Rose are very imperfect people, but they are so right together – until Rose vanishes, and her adoptive parents<\/a> have no clue where she went.<\/p>\n

The author provides an excerpt of this bittersweet story’s first chapter here<\/a> for free. Check your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> so you can read it all.<\/p>\n

When you can’t keep the only thing keeping you sane in the face of abuse<\/a> and indifference, what next?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Opposite of Love \/ Sarah Lynn Scheerger. Albert Whitman, 2014.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Meeting through mutual friends, artistic Rose and kid-magnet Chase fall in love, but struggle to keep parents and their pasts from tearing apart their future together.<\/p>\n

When Chase’s long-gone abusive dad demands visitation rights and Rose’s adoptive parents lock her in the house to keep the Native American teen out of trouble, the high school couple’s plans to leave behind their California town go up in smoke.<\/p>\n

How will Rose locate her real mother now?
\nHow can Chase protect his little sister when he’s away at Walter’s?
\nWhy does Rose stop answering texts and calls from Chase and her friends?<\/p>\n

Flashing back and forth between Chase’s frantic quest to Rose now before it’s too late and their earlier days of meeting, teasing, and learning to love, this story of choices and possible redemption follows two flawed people as they try to rewrite the dismal future that others predict for them.<\/p>\n

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Gone. Just… gone. No forewarning, phone disconnected, How can the love of your life disappear so completely? Chase and Rose are very imperfect people, but they are so right together – until Rose vanishes, and her adoptive parents have no clue where she went. The author provides an excerpt of this bittersweet story’s first chapter […]<\/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":[90,203,123,124,7,4,75,105,11,20,5,16,18,40,44,43,39,49,63,15,9,21,57,35,33,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-abuse","tag-adoption","tag-art","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-native-americans","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"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\/5158","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=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}