Audiobook5 hours
Here to Stay
Written by Sara Farizan
Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy that Bijan is the man of the hour: an anonymous cyberbully sends the entire school a picture of Bijan photoshopped to look like a terrorist. His mother is horrified, and the school administration is outraged. They promise to find and punish the culprit. All Bijan wants is to pretend it never happened and move on, but the incident isn't so easily erased. Though many of his classmates rally behind Bijan, some don't want him or his type to be a part of their school. And Bijan's finding out it's not always easy to tell your enemies from your friends . . .
Author
Sara Farizan
SARA FARIZAN lives near Boston, Massachusetts. She is an MFA graduate of Lesley University and holds a BA in film and media studies from American University. TWITTER: @SaraFarizan
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Reviews for Here to Stay
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5OMG. I loved this book. It made me really emotional.
Content warnings: death, disability, child abuse, animal abuse (off page but deals with an animal that has been abused).
One of the things I love about Catherine Anderson's novels is how she makes such great characters. Things aren't always as they seem and people are more complex than what is shown. That is definitely the case with Mandy. Catherine Anderson's books are enjoyable as a whole. She takes you a journey and you definitely have to be prepared for that.
Here to Stay deals with some heavy subjects. If you're not knew to her works then this isn't a surprise. What I liked about her approach to it in Here to Stay is how realistic and believable the characters actions are and how the trauma shaped their later actions in life. She made the trauma part of the characters and not some plot device to bring together characters or add for drama's sake. The characters showed a real growth in coming to the realization of how the trauma held them back and needed to change.
This is a real slow burn romance although it didn't feel slow burn if you get what I mean. There was no insta-lust/love. In fact both the hero and heroine were willing to give up having a relationship with one another to pursue their goals. Their relationship progressed very naturally. The hero isn't OTT and he didn't come off as Alpha or Beta. I think because so much of the story was focused on Mandy and her brother Luke and the hero was kind of the supporting role in helping them move on from their trauma. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Important and greatly executed. We need more books like that
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not my cup of tea. Too much story about the horse and horse training.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catherine Anderson is the best. I have read all of her books and her web-site is fun to go to as well. She is just so personable. This was a very moving story and shows the struggles of people with disabilities. A must read...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I will always be a sucker for the Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan families!