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    A Million Miles Away
    Audiobook7 hours

    A Million Miles Away

    Written by Lara Avery

    Narrated by Kara Bartell

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Twin sisters Kelsey and Michelle Maxfield look identical -- but they couldn't be more different. Kelsey is the captain of the dance team and loves her cute college boyfriend, Davis. Michelle is a free-spirited artist and flits from one guy to the next, the latest a soldier recently deployed to Afghanistan. Despite their differences, Kelsey and Michelle can't live without each other -- until, in an instant, everything changes.
    When Michelle dies in a car crash, Kelsey is left without her other half. As the only one who knows about her sister's boyfriend, Peter, Kelsey takes it upon herself to find him and tell him what happened to Michelle. But when she finally connects with Peter online, he thinks that Kelsey is Michelle and says that seeing her is the one thing keeping him alive. Caught up in the moment, Kelsey can't bear to break his heart with the truth, so she lets Peter believe that she is Michelle.
    Kelsey keeps up the act, pretending to be her sister, and soon she can't deny that she's falling, hard, for the one boy she shouldn't want.
    Lara Avery delivers a breathtaking story of love and loss that is guaranteed to sweep you off your feet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9781478904571
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    A Million Miles Away
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    Lara Avery

    Lara Avery is also the author of three young adult novels, one of which, The Memory Book, received the 2017 Minnesota Book Award. She studied film at Macalester College and got her MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi. She lives in Topeka, Kansas.

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    Reviews for A Million Miles Away

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    • 4/5
      4 stars: I love itDisclaimer: I received this book as an ARC (advanced review copy). I am not paid for this review, and my opinions in this review are mine, and are not effected by the book being free. I wanted to read A Million Miles away because losing your twin sister has to make for an emotional read. Then she makes the decision to pretend to be her sister because she begins falling for Michelle's boyfriend who is in the military. The book does have us briefly beet Michelle before she died, and it did set up that the sisters were close, but also that they fought physically and that it was up and down. Michelle is an artist and more dreamy than Kelsey, and she seemed to attract lost souls, and would always fall back on Kelsey when they didn't work out. Kelsey is athletic and seems to be more popular. But when she meets and talks to Peter the day Michelle died, the day that he shipped out to Afghanistan, she is surprised by how much she likes him, and he seems genuine, their relationship making Michelle happy instead of it seeming like a project. Peter really seemed to care for her as well. I connected with Kelsey because her grief at losing Michelle was a lot like my grief losing my dad. She didn't all out bawl and be emotional in the outside. She felt kind of numb, like it wasn't real almost. Then she felt a lot of physical pain and her emotional pain manifested in withdrawing. She did eventually start crying about everything, which I guess is where our similarities end. She was helping her mom delete Michelle's facebook account when she got the first message from Peter. She had intended to tell him, she even went to a recruiting office to try to get word to him, and that is when she realized she didn't even know his last name. And oh how it's wrong, but she feels like she misses Michelle just a little bit less when she is talking to him. And she doesn't want to hurt him or distract him, she really did worry about his safety. But more and more, she realizes how much she cares about him, and she rationalizes not telling him, more and more. I appreciated that this book dealt with grief in a number of ways, showing how it effected Kelsey differently than her parents, and how they dealt with it in numbers, hosting a support group at their house, and talking it out. It was kinda sad because it felt like Kelsey was lost to them they were so caught up in losing Michelle and trying to deal with that. But their eyes were finally opened again to their living daughter, and a good balance was found in remembering the loss of Michelle and trying to live life instead of it passing them by. One of Kelsey's friends did find out what she was doing with Peter, and they had a pretty big blow out. But I did appreciate that her friend spoke the truth to her, but it was sad that they stopped hanging out and talking for awhile. But eventually they repaired the breach, and made their friendship solid again. A Million Miles Away seemed realistic not only in the grief part, but in what Peter shared while he was deployed. His letters, skype sessions, and when they were in person, he shared the difficulties he faced. He lost some in his unit, and he was afraid, and didn't want to go back, but at the same time felt that drive and loyalty to the others he served with. He dealt with the things that they tried to desensitize the soldiers to otherwise they could lose their minds. He developed muscle memory and had issues back home with louder sounds that could be mistaken for gunfire. It really gave me a renewed thankfulness for the men and women who serve, and a better understanding of what they might feel or think. It was hard because Kelsey does have a boyfriend, and it is some form of cheating. Don't know to what degree, but she def had a deep emotional attachment to Peter. Thankfully this did end up handled pretty well, and Kelsey made some good decisions for a change. I did appreciate that the truth finally came out, and that she took responsibility and quit making excuses for herself. I did like the way it was handled and wrapped up. It gave a lot of hope for healing, and hints of something sweet between the two for the future. Bottom Line: Great premise, executed well with characters I liked.
    • 2/5
      This has to be one of the most predictable books that I have ever read. When I read the blurb for a book, I usually make some kind of guess about where I think the story will eventually go. I like it when my guess is completely wrong because that means the book took a lot of unexpected twists and turns. I like twists and turns. I also like it when my guess is kind of right and the story ends how I thought it would but the way it happened was completely different than anything I could have imagined. This book told the exact story that I had guessed it would. After finishing the book, I decided to a very small survey. I had my 14 year old daughter read the blurb and asked her how she thought the story would end and she nailed it. I then decided to really shake things up so I asked my husband the same thing. My husband NEVER picks up a book and is probably the exact opposite of the target audience and you know what...he knew how this book would end too. I need a little bit of unexpected to fully enjoy a story.I didn't hate the book but I don't feel like I gained anything by reading it. I really didn't feel anything for any of the characters and found every single one of the be rather flat. There was never any kind of stand out moment in the book that hit me emotionally. This is the kind of book that I will most likely forget about before too long. Unfortunately, I would not recommend this book to other readers. I received an advance reader edition of this book from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Poppy via NetGalley for the purpose of providing an honest review.
    • 3/5
      I received this free eARC in exchange for my honest review. When I first read the synopsis, I got goosebumps. I had to have this book. I jumped for joy when I saw it available on Edelweiss and automatically requested to get this novel. Then I squealed for joy when I was approved and dived right into the eARC. This had such an awesome synopsis that I was expecting an amazing novel that was going to make me cry and laugh and fall in love. But somehow I didn't do any of those things. Instead I sympathized with Kelsey, but then I started to roll my eyes, shake my head, and muttering to Kelsey to stop being scared. Of course she didn't listen to me. I was more annoyed with her than anything, which sounds terrible considering the topic of this novel. But really? Did she really thing it was going to smooth over easily? Gah, okay, no more of Kelsey. She was in a terrible situation and was trying to do the right thing only to get caught up in more terrible situations. It happens. It's life. But that girl has bad luck sometimes. Overall this was a good novel. Not as amazing as I was hoping, but not terrible. I had the same experience with Lara Avery's other novel as well. Maybe it's the author? Maybe it's my preference? I'm not sure. What I am sure is that I'm very glad I was able to read this novel early, even if it fell short of my expectations. Thank you to the publisher and Edelweiss for the advanced eARC of this novel!