Name: Everything Beautiful
ISBN: 9781599900421

Simmone Howell

When sixteen-year-old Riley unwillingly attends a religious summer camp, she forms a deep bond with another camper who happens to be wheelchair bound.

Everything Beautiful

I believe in Chloe and chocolate.I believe the best part is always before.I believe that most girls are shifty and most guys are dumb.I believe the more you spill, the less you are.I don't believe in life after death or diuretics or happy endings.I don't believe anything good can come from this.Riley Rose doesn't want to be at Spirit Ranch Holiday Camp. Riley wants to be partying with her best friend Chloe at the beautiful Ben Sebatini's house. She has a plan to get away from the jumpsuit-wearing counsellors, the feel-good mantras, do-gooder campers and the monotonous schedule of team-building exercises and outdoor activities.But is everything at the Spirit Ranch as it appears? What secrets are waiting for discovery in the abandoned Fraser house? And why doesn't anyone want to talk about the accident that landed the mysterious Dylan in a wheelchair last year?Everything Beautiful – a love story about the broken and the broken-hearted.

A Love Story about the Broken and the Broken-hearted

Emma Renfrey

Not a bad book. Great quick pacing with excellent character development, probably a bit heavy on the Jesus stuff for me though!

When Riley's Dad gets a new girlfriend, life turns upside down for Riley. She doesn't like Norma and Norma doesn't like her. But it is not until Riley finds herself shipped off to 'camp' that she realises just how bad things have become. Determined to continue on her path of bad behaviour and general obnoxiousness, Riley Rose is sure that she can turn this 'spiritual camp' upside down. And when she meets Dylan Luck, recent paraplegic, she thinks she has found a fellow troublemaker. What follows is a very surprising week for Riley. Truths are told and secrets revealed, and sex, cigarettes and booze prove to be a potent cocktail, but in the end Riley has learnt quite a lot about herself, Dylan and exactly why she appeared hell-bent on self-destruction.

Everything Beautiful

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