"You and me Pilar, we don't need no bad boy to save us. We need each other."
"Gracie, I dunno... Promise?"
"Of course I promise, you vegetable!"
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Grace and Pilar have been best friends since they came out of the womb...practically. They know each other better then the back of their hands. It's always been Pilar and Grace and would be weird to see one without the other, even the local pizza delivery man thinks so too! But, when Grace branches out and becomes the new and improved Grace where everybody wants to be her friend, Pilar feels like she is losing her best friend. Always being the shyest and the less outspoken of the two she backs away quietly and leaves her.
Pilar Van Housen is a normal girl-or so she thinks (I mean if you exclude her obsession with unicorns and the flowers and bows in her hair that always seem present, she is pretty normal) and her general aim for the upcoming senior year is to keep her head down yet somehow manage to convince herself that she can live without Grace, and better yet to get Theo to love her back. What she isn't prepared for is for her rival, Gabriel to return to town and ruin the life she's always been seemingly content to live. Sky-scraper height, gorgeous as all hell and a bad boy with silver eyes and the perfect edge of adorability, River Cross.
Who is he?
Well the hot guy of course. Get ready for breaking rules, gangs, death, life, road trips, almost-kisses, near-death-experiences, street racing, a voice recorder, a vinyl record, a bucket list, a five-year-feud, PIZZA, two Ben and Jerry addicts as authors and of course an ending you never expected.
Put it all in a Nutri-Bullet blender and you get...
I dunno to be honest. But I can tell you it's not a super-healthy smoothie!
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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