Name: We Come Apart
ISBN: 9781681192758

Sarah Crossan

Brian Conaghan

While serving a community service sentence for young offenders, a Romanian immigrant boy and a troubled British girl fall in love.

We Come Apart

Two of the most important voices in YA come together to break your heart - We Come Apartis a contemporary Romeo and Juliet, a story of two teenagers brought together by circumstance, ripped apart by fate ...

I cant 😭 the end was so sad! I need to know what happens! 😭😩

Debbi

This book... 

This book...

I loved it. But I felt like the verse/poem-structured layout is redundant. Then again, Sarah Crossan is well-known for her way of writing. I think I would like it a lot more if everything was more detailed and descriptive.

We Come Apart is a very, very, very important book with the whole Brexit and Trump's presidency thing going on. There are so many ignorant and racist people out there... sadly, even in books.

YA rising stars Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan join forces to break readers' hearts in this contemporary story of star-cross'd lovers. Jess would never have looked twice at Nicu if her friends hadn't left her in the lurch. Nicu is all big eyes and ill-fitting clothes, eager as a puppy, even when they're picking up litter in the park for community service. He's so not her type. Appearances matter to Jess. She's got a lot to hide. Nicu thinks Jess is beautiful. His dad brought Nicu and his mum here for a better life, but now all they talk about is going back home to find Nicu a wife. The last thing Nicu wants is to get married. He wants to get educated, do better, stay here in England. But his dad's fists are the most powerful force in Nicu's life, and in the end, he'll have to do what his dad wants. As Nicu and Jess get closer, their secrets come to the surface like bruises. The only safe place they have is with each other. But they can't be together, forever, and stay safe – can they? An extraordinary, high-impact, high-emotion collaboration between two Carnegie honoured rising stars of YA. Perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Malorie Blackman, Rainbow Rowell and John Green. Sarah Crossan received the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal for her astonishing novel One, which also won the YA Book Prize,CBI Book of the Year Award and the CliPPA Poetry Award. Brian Conaghan's powerful debut, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, Peters Book of the Year and CBI Book of the Year Award.

Candyce Kirk

shalee olsen

Eh... it was fine. I read this book for contemporaryathon to read a book in a nontraditional format (verse) maybe that's what I didn't enjoy? I don't know this was such a strange book for me. I 100 percent understand that the author wrote Nicu to have broken English because his English wasn't fully developed and to make his side more interesting. But I kind of found it distracting for me.

Also, I just didn't care that much for the story, Since it was so fast I didn't get that invested. But that being said, I don't think I wanted to read any more about this. 

Like a lot of books, my rating went up because of the ending. I really like how it finished up and it pulls your heartstrings.

Britt Jansen 

Renske van de Weijer

I thought it was a very good book.
it was very different then the books I have allready read, and by that I mean the way it was written. 
it really shows how cruel and racist people can be.
the ending was also quite a suprise. 

I am totally reading this again

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A contemporary Romeo and Juliet , a story of two teenagers brought together by circumstance, ripped apart by fate ... written in verse.

We Come Apart

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