Clean
By Mia Kerick
Genre: YA LGBTQ Contemporary Romance
Book Description
High school senior Lanny Keating has it all. A three-sport athlete at
Lauserville High School looking at a college football scholarship, with a
supportive family, stellar grades, boy band good looks… until the fateful day
when it all falls apart.
Seventeen-year-old Trevor Ladd has always been a
publicly declared zero and the high school badboy. Abandoned by his mother and
sexually abused by his legal guardian, Trevor sets his sights on mere survival.
Lanny seeks out Trevor’s companionship to avoid his
shattered home life. Unwilling to share their personal experiences of pain, the
boys explore ways to escape, leading them into sexual experimentation, and the
abuse of illegal drugs and alcohol. Their mutual suffering creates a
lasting bond of friendship and love.
When the time finally comes to get clean and sober,
or flunk out of high school, only one of the boys will graduate, while the
other spirals downward into addiction.
Will Lanny and Trevor find the strength to battle
their demons of mind-altering substances as well as emotional vulnerability?
Clean takes the reader on a gritty trip into the
real and raw world of teenage substance abuse.
My Review
Clean is a deep story about abuse, addiction, and sexual identity. Being a young adult normally comes with many ups-and-downs but Lanny and Trevor each deal with more than they should. The teen boys connect with each other but are both afraid of what their relationship means. They are emotionally and physically damaged. Clean shows different scenarios of people healing from trauma and attempting to live a healthier life. It's easier for some and harder for others. I appreciate the author featuring a plot that revolves around critical issues facing today's youth. A wonderful book!
Author Bio
Ms Kerick is the
mother of four exceptional children—all named after saints—and five
non-pedigreed cats—all named after the next best thing to saints, Boston Red
Sox players. Her husband of twenty-three years has been told by many that he
has the patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia about that, as it’s a sensitive
subject.
Mia focuses her stories on the
emotional growth of troubled young people and their relationships. As a teen,
Mia filled spiral- bound notebooks with romantic tales of tortured heroes (most
of whom happened to strongly resemble lead vocalists of 1980s big- hair bands)
and stuffed them under her mattress for safekeeping.
She is thankful to
CoolDudes Publishing, Dreamspinner Press, Harmony Ink Press, and CreateSpace
for providing her with alternate places to stash her stories.
Mia is a social
liberal and cheers for each and every victory made in the name of human rights,
especially marital equality, which is now the law of the land in the United
States—woot! woot! Her only major regret: never having taken typing or computer
class in school, destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered pecking and
constant prayer to the Gods of Technology.
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1 comment:
Hello!! Thank you so much for hosting me on your blog today and for the awesome review!!!
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