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Monday, January 20, 2020

Review: Sticks & Stones by Santana Blair

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She thinks he’s looking for a come up.
He just thinks she’s stuck up.

Both Darcie and Elijah step foot onto the campus of Pembrook Academy with one thing on their minds… getting out. Darcie wants nothing more than to finish high school and know that her spot in the Ivy Leagues is secured and waiting for her.
And Elijah?
Well, Elijah just wants out.
It was never his idea to go to Pembrook in the first place and now he’s stuck spending his senior year with a bunch of kids he has absolutely nothing in common with. Then, she came along. From the moment he meets Darcie Fitzgerald, he knows she is going to drive him absolutely crazy. But nothing could have prepared him for how amazing crazy would feel.

Darcie has ninety-nine problems and Elijah Benitez is now her biggest one. He seemed to coast into her life from out of nowhere, and she has neither the time nor the patience to deal with him. But every time she tries to put a little distance between them, life shoves them closer together and Darcie finds herself in a situation far more complicated than she could have ever expected.

They’re both about to learn a few things starting with lesson #1:
Not Everything Is As it Seems




Sticks & Stones is a YA modernized retelling of Pride & Prejudice.

I was anxious and excited about reading this. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is that I don't generally read YA and the second is that I know absolutely nothing about Pride & Prejudice. As much as I'd love to go into all of the inner workings and parallels between the original and the retelling, I won't be able to and that makes me sad. It's one of my favorite parts of reading "retellings" and "inspired bys".

All that being said, I am so glad I read this book. I am over the moon that it was suggested to be a "Book of the Week" on Facebook. I can't say this has turned me on to YA, but it has turned me on to Santana Blair and I'm sure I'll be reading more of her books.

I'm not even sure how to review this book. I know I liked it, I liked it so much that I've made it required reading for my daughter.

That PLAYLIST! You guys! The playlist fit it perfectly. Almost every single song on the playlist matches up with scenes from the book. And that, that right there, made me squeal and smile and almost cry.

Sticks & Stones is one of those books that is written so well that you forget you're reading, you're just watching that movie playing in your head. I had thought at one point a Disney movie, an updated High School Musical.

I guess the next thing on my to do list is to either watch or read Pride & Prejudice.






Santana Blair




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