TBR Challenge #4 - Being Amani by Anabelle Steele

SYNOPSIS

It's been over a year since that night and Amani hopes that starting all over again will help her move on from the past. So, when she moves to a new city, Amani wants to focus on her new life, her best friends and the boy she's been crushing on but everything is falling apart and Amani finds herself looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Can Amani confront the ghosts of her pasts so she can become the girl she's always wanted to be?

REVIEW

For Amani, it is more than clear has been through an awful lot when we are first introduced to her and her story. It is apparent very early on that she wants to break free of the chains that have haunted her past and want to look forward to a new and exciting future. But things aren't as easy as they seem and sometimes you need to accept what has happened and to take help from those who want to support you before running again.

As she is a teenager still, her outlook on life does not always present the best idea of how to cope with the scars that she has been left with and there is more than one occasion where you cannot help feeling a little annoyed about her choices.

But she is a human girl who wants more than anything to protect her mother.

Despite exposing readers to adult themes, I felt a lot more could have been done. It felt like half the plot was about how much Amani wanted to be around boys and not really caring about very much else. This did not help with her "best friend" who seemed to be absent over some argument that I can't really remember them having.

As much as I wanted to love this book it did fall flat on my expectations. It is one of those books that you expect a lot from but doesn't deliver on the plot.

RATING: ** (TWO STARS)

BUY LINKS

Amazon: Being Amani eBook : Steele, Annabelle: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Waterstones: Being Amani by Annabelle Steele | Waterstones

Publisher Website Being Amani by Annabelle Steele | hashtagpress

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