Cover Crush: A Sky for Us Alone by Kristin Russell
A Sky for Us Alone by Kristin Russell has such a warm and friendly cover. I love it! The colors and the imagery really make me want to know what this book is all about. A Sky for Us Alone is about death, grief, and the struggles of finding a way out of a life you have been born into. All the while finding hope for something better from finding someone to love. Throw in the seriousness of small town opioid crisis and we have the struggles of trying to be a better person. I have a feeling this is going to be a heartbreaking story, but one that needs to be told. You can add this to your TBR now for the January 8th, 2019 release.
A Sky for Us Alone by Kristin Russell
Category: Young Adult, Contemporary
Publication: January 8th, 2019; Katherine Tegen Books
Purchase: Amazon
In Strickland County, there isn’t a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton’s brother is killed by the Praters—the family who controls everything, from the mines to the law—he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. Until he meets Tennessee Moore.
With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might’ve found the rarest thing of all: hope. Even as she struggles with the worst of the cards she’s been dealt, Tennessee makes Harlowe believe that they can dare to forge their own path—if they only give it a shot.
But as Harlowe searches for the answers behind his brother’s death, his town’s decay, and his family’s dysfunction, he discovers truths about the people he loves—and himself—that are darker than he ever expected. Now, Harlowe realizes, there’s no turning back.
A powerful story of first love, poverty, and the grip of the opioid crisis in the rural South, Kristin Russell’s gorgeous debut novel asks a universal question: When hope seems lost, are dreams worth the risk?
