Samantha Young has been a favorite author of mine for years. She writes characters that are so easy to relate with and weaves stories that makes you feel like you’re actually inside the book. The Fragile Ordinary is a beautiful book. It’s a book filled with the poignant moments that even though I’m really far removed from my teen years, I still felt the weight of the moment. Comet’s journey is achingly familiar.
I think we've all spent a good deal of time trying to figure out where we fit in the world and how we want to live our lives. I remember being just like Comet once upon a time and the book dug up those feelings that I thought long forgotten. This book is about Comet and her journey to find herself, but it’s also so much more. It’s about the pressures of society, of our peers. It’s about the pressure we feel from our families to help out or to be the best.
The Fragile Ordinary is an amazing book. I couldn’t put it down. Samantha Young has written a book that hits right in the feels. More than once I felt that ache in my chest while reading this book. I shed tears while reading this book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good book. Whether you read young adult or not, I think this book is an absolute must-read.
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A Devastatingly Beautiful Dive into the Teen Soul. EXTRAORDINARY!
There is something special in a young adult romance. That angst from the uncertainty of being not quite a child but not quite an adult either. That bit of childhood innocence resonating through the story. That trip down memory lane it takes to those teenage years, sparking good and trying times. The glue that usually cements YA stories—with tough topics, frustrating feelings, smoldering and sweet scenes, and lots of depth—together is hope. Who doesn’t need a little hope in their life? ”How do you conquer each moment, when you have no one on your side?” Hope meets heart in The Fragile Ordinary in one STAGGERING EMOTIONAL JOURNEY. The fierce and fiery angst of this teen romance made my pulse pound and my heart beat out of my chest. This beautifully broken book brought tears to my eyes as I broke for a broken girl in a broken family. I felt the angst. I felt the heartbreak. I felt the hope. I felt the heart-fluttering love. I FELT EVERYTHING in this stunning story that speaks to the soul. A compelling coming of age love story laced with Hamlet, The Fragile Ordinary’s underlying themes of being true to oneself and daring to be different strike straight to the teenage soul. Told through a struggling but strong teen girl who is beautiful inside out, The Fragile Ordinary shows the value of life and love, and what it means to truly be loved and really live. The characters are full of fire with a story so heady, so harrowing, so hopeful, and so heartfelt. Broken sees broken, and Comet and Tobias are two kindred spirits with beautiful hearts who are perfect together. A slow burn of two broken souls becoming whole, The Fragile Ordinary is an in-depth dive into the teen heart and soul felt everywhere. ”And . . . What if what I really want is you?” “Then you have me.” The Fragile Ordinary. Fragile because the human heart is delicate with the teen’s heart the most delicate of all. But ordinary?!? Not at all. Heartbreakingly beautiful and passionately poignant, The Fragile Ordinary flawlessly captures the delicate teen heart and the depth of resulting emotions in a soul-clenching story that is nothing but EXTRAORDINARY. Samantha Young has written another heartfelt and harrowing love story that belongs on every young adult shelf. ”The real beauty of life is in the fragile ordinary.” 💋💋💋💋💋 beautifully broken kisses
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- S. ClarkeReviewed in Canada on September 7, 2018
Samantha Young - brilliant author
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- Au a bookloverReviewed in France on June 26, 2018
"And the real beauty of life is in the fragile ordinary"
- SUZY BAXTERReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2018
Shakespeare said it best, To thine own self be true. To his wisdom, I attest, So I’ll be me, you be you.
First time read of anything by Samantha Young, and what an introduction, It had all the feels, the angst, the drama, the love. I don’t often read young adult they have to be something special for me to do so and this was very special. I won’t give too much away as I feel you need no spoilers. If you are of an age that teenage angst is long gone, cast your minds back to when you were, then embrace this book for that alone. Times do change at an alarmingly fast pace, but one thing will never change No man’s land of the teenage years.SUZY BAXTERShakespeare said it best, To thine own self be true. To his wisdom, I attest, So I’ll be me, you be you.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2018
"This is an amazing coming of age book. That took me back to time of when I was a school girl years ago. ( to many to count ) The social levels of school, the clicks the bad boys and girls, the bullies. The good teachers. the bad teachers who scared you for life."The Fragile Ordinary
Comet I loved, her inner dialogue was superb, awkwardness, never quite fitting in. Tobias I loved, but Stevie my heart broke for over and over again. When walking this path called life, people are judgmental, harsh unforgiving monsters when we reach the teen stage of life, with the mind set that no one before them will ever understand what it’s like to be a teenager, this mentality is and always will be a social etiquette of living, my teenage years were horrific. I survived them, and now watching my own children going through them is unbelievable.
This beautiful story of a young girls coming into her own was like a rose bud slowly blossoming, she was her own person, introverted yes but individual and I love that in a person regardless of age. I loved the fact that she dressed how she wanted. My heart broke for her over her parents treatment of her, especially her mother. She was as individual as you can get, yet at the same time she wasn’t. We all judge someone wrongly, by the company they keep, how true is that still today, yet they are just like you and me they’re the same have you ever given someone the benefit of doubt. No, then maybe this book will make you understand better, Never judge a book by it’s cover, people are often the way they are because of circumstances does it make them bad, no just misunderstood and left to fester, because they have been judge tried and punished not only by their peers but by their Elders and betters, The saying people in glass houses shouldn’t through stones rings loud in this book.
Tobias a tortured soul full of pain and anger. Screaming out for help, gets it from the most unlikeliest one, Comet. The only reason I have given this a 4 star instead of 5 is I now prefer duel ‘POV’ I would have loved to have seen his words and Most definitely Stevie’s, even though I knew in my heart how he would end, I prayed that it didn’t that some where he would be rescued.
The trials of teenage living should never be dismissed as foible, they do suffer from angst, self degradation, bullying, not fitting in, Invisible to all. Their pain is real to dismiss a teenager trying to reach out to you is as bad as you can get. They can fall in love deeply, they can hurt, even the biggest bully is deep inside hurting. Go in blind reading this book take it slow and savor the story for what it is a painful, joy filled, happy, angry entrance in to a teenagers life and her coming of age.
Magical book.
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