Welcome to Litsy!

5/5⭐ One of those exemplary books that, after closing the last page, makes you just sit & think & feel what you just experienced.

Voigt has a singular gift for latching the reader into the character's journey through heartbreak & developing self-worth so that they grow over the years along with the character. It is that gift that differentiates this book from similarly themed books.

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3216864091

She went on and on, until Jeff had a sense of family spreading out around them endlessly, and only an hour later, when she was lost in reminiscences, did he understand that the names she mentioned, the people she spoke of, were most of them long ago dead. The family spread not out and around, but back, back into time.

Second try was a hit. I bailed the first time because Jeff‘s parents were so awful I couldn‘t face it, but I‘m glad I tried again. His neglectful father really redeems himself. This starts several years before the previous two Tillerman books but picks up that thread in the last quarter or so. I‘ve always liked Jeff.

Starting a Solitary Blue, book three in the Tillerman Cycle, and the last one I own. I'll have to check the rest out from the library.

I must really like you #readathon people or something, because #30daysofreadathon got me vertical on a sick day to share some #blue with you.

This came in the mail today! Continuing the Tillerman Cycle after almost 18 years! Our sixth-grade English teacher read us Homecoming aloud in class and For being a dragon lady she sure had a nose for a good story!