Review Tour + #Giveaway: Always the New Girl by Kelly Vincent @GoddessFish

Always the New Girl

by Kelly Vincent

GENRE: YA Contemporary

BLURB:

Knitting nerd Sarah Redmond is always the new girl, never the popular one.

Moving all over the country with her flighty mom seemed to be her lot in life, but her junior year at Sierra Vista High School feels like it could be different.

She's finally on the verge of a social breakthrough.

But when she gets publicly punked at her first party, she and her new friends find a creative way to use their shared obsession with knitting to exact sweet revenge.

And when their efforts lead to a lucrative business, Sarah knows she's set.

But when her deadbeat dad comes back around she starts to wonder if she should try for a different life, instead of following the paths her parents have chosen.

She'd always half thought her small-time knitting channel could grow into a big-time knitting channel, but maybe college as a backup plan isn't such a ridiculous idea, after all.

But is that something a girl like her can really make happen?

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Excerpt:

To cope, I did what any reasonable person would have done—I holed up in my room after work and started a new series of knitted weapons. First I made a dagger because it seemed simplest, but it still took me a while. I stabilized it with cardboard from a cereal box.

Naturally, I recorded how to make it. I even demonstrated what I’d like to do with the dagger. Stabbity stab stab.

Screw everybody at school. My thousands of subscribers thought I was cool. There were more of them than students at the school.

Of course, the comments exploded with trolls from school, with things about my contortionist face. Which, again, was so stupid. Some of my regular followers were flip‐ ping out and fighting back. One of them said, “Do you know who you’re making fun of?” like I was a big-time celebrity. Someone else said, “I’d like to see *you* make a giant celeriac!” That cracked me up. Still, I had to turn comments off on my whole channel because of all the trolls, which sucked.

A couple days later I was called into the principal’s office. Mr. Peterson—a middle-aged balding man—gave me this stern look when I got there. I had to wait for my mom in this tacky and squeaky wooden chair with frayed blue fabric arms. My stomach was roiling while I waited, because I had no idea what was going on, and I’d never been in trouble before.

We went into his office, where they had matching wooden chairs.

“Sarah and Ms. Redmond, we take threats of violence very seriously here.” 

My Review:

Sarah Redmond is always the new girl. Sarah and her mom are always moving from one new place to another. Sarah hasn’t seen her dad since she was like a year old. So it is just her and her mom and whichever new boyfriend they happen to be living with at the moment. Yeah, dear old Mom gets bored with one boyfriend and then finds another one to move in with until the next new boyfriend comes along.

Sarah is starting her junior as the new girl at Sierra Vista High School. Moving from place to place makes it hard for Sarah to make or keep friends. I guess she is like, why bother, it's not like she will be sticking around long enough to keep them, right?

At her new school, Sarah believes she may have made a few new friends when she is invited to party at one of the girl's homes. Yeah, well when she shows up at the door she is told in no uncertain terms by the girl who invited her that she was no longer invited and that she had to leave right then.

Yeah, well Sarah does eventually find some new friends. Friends like herself who like to knit. Sarah has a blog about knitting. Sarah decides that she wants to get revenge for what happened at the party. She makes her plans and with the help of her new friends sets them in place but she is soon caught and suspended.

Always the New Girl is the third book by Kelly Vincent that I have read and I certainly hope it is not going to be the last. I have enjoyed reading each and every book. Each book just gets better and better. They are all unique in their own way.

They all make you stop and think about the things that go on in life and what some have to deal with or live with. I love the true life experiences in each story. The characters all seem so real. You feel as if you know them and can even relate to them on some level.

That ending made me sort of sad. I hope that we get to see more of Sarah and her mom in future books. I would like to know more about Sarah and her mom. What is her mom’s story? What is Sarah’s dad’s story? Why was he not in the picture? So many unanswered questions. I will be thinking about Sarah for a long time to come.

I highly recommend Always the New Girl to everyone who loves a good heart touching story. Grab your copy of Always the New Girl today!  

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Kelly Vincent wrangles data weekdays and spends the rest of her time playing with words. She grew up in Oklahoma but has moved around quite a bit, with Glasgow, Scotland being her favorite stop. She now lives near Seattle with three cats who help her write her stories by strategically walking across the keyboard, with her first novel, Finding Frances, a fine example of this technique. She has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth program.

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