Sunny Shelly’s Review: Trust, by Kylie Scott

Being young is all about the experiences: the first time you skip school, the first time you fall in love…the first time someone holds a gun to your head.

After being held hostage during a robbery at the local convenience store, seventeen-year-old Edie finds her attitude about life shattered. Unwilling to put up with the snobbery and bullying at her private school, she enrolls at the local public high school, crossing paths with John. The boy who risked his life to save hers.

While Edie’s beginning to run wild, however, John’s just starting to settle down. After years of partying and dealing drugs with his older brother, he’s going straight—getting to class on time, and thinking about the future.

An unlikely bond grows between the two as John keeps Edie out of trouble and helps her broaden her horizons. But when he helps her out with another first—losing her virginity—their friendship gets complicated.

Meanwhile, Edie and John are pulled back into the dangerous world they narrowly escaped. They were lucky to survive the first time, but this time they have more to lose—each other.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Trust is a brilliant coming-of-age young adult novel about two teenagers from very different social groups who would never have become friends — or more — if it weren’t for the twist of fate that had them in the same place at the same time. Edie and John both survived something beyond scary and tragic. When their paths kept intersecting again and again, a beautiful friendship develops as they both help the other come out the other side of their shared nightmare. And from that beautiful friendship, and even lovelier young romance blossoms.

“You’re here?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”
“Because this is where you are.”

Simply beautiful.

This was the first book I’ve read by Kylie Scott, so I was unfamiliar with her stories. But Edie and John’s story — and the trust they developed in one another and themselves — is a lesson that will stay in my heart and mind for a long time to come.

I received and advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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