We’d love your help. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. For me after they met is when the story started to make sense. Reluctant to trust each other, much less become friends, the two warily make their way up the Pacific Coast. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward … We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. Sign up for your FREE email about the latest top book club picks, exclusive book giveaways, new releases, and online author events. She escapes only to find she has nowhere to go—until fate throws Allie in Bea’s path. Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. Thats all im going to … Then when she falls for a phone scam and loses the last of her money and that month's social security she decides to take off on the road. One little kiss and then you’ve thrown your lot in with someone, and your whole life has to be built around him. Plot Summary Part 1. Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? And here’s a link to another Catherine Ryan Hyde book that I’ve read and reviewed: Does this sound like a good read? Review: A sweet tale of a road trip, friendship, and finding one’s self along the way. So, as frustrating as Bea was at the beginning, I found myself drawn to Allie and her story, so continued on reading the book, and I’m so glad that I did! Allie's story in the beginning is very intense and heartbreaking. They see the boyfriend's motorcycle arriving out front and Allie flees with Jasmine. Two separate lives who meet up when Allie runs away from the terrible things that happen in the home. She is told the money is due today, but if she hands over her bank identification information and pin number the matter will be resolved immediately. ARC Review: Allie and Bea by Catherine Ryan Hyde, ARC Review: Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians #3), Book Review: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer #1), Book Review: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, Series Review: The Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown (Red Rising, Golden Son, & Morning Star), ARC Review: The Miss Silver Mysteries – Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth, ARC Review: The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen, Book Review & Book Club Discussion: The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman. Another girl named Jasmine warns Allie that when Brick's boyfriend comes, they will get Allie. I think Allie and Bea is a great book. She didn't think at all about their finances while her husband was alive and as a result when he died she was left almost penniless. She lives in a trailer park like trailer park white trash. Allie's idealistic ways end up blowing up in her face when they lead to a confrontation with another one of the girls at the home and Allie ends up running away to avoid the inevitable fight to follow. Here's what the publisher has to say about it: Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. Ah, so it’s limited third-person point of view, which means we can totally see into 2-3 characters’ thoughts, but not ALL characters. Victor takes her on a lavish shopping trip, buying her thousands of dollars of clothes and telling her she can work it off. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published I felt like it started off slow but once both Allie and Bea got together, it picked up speed! She tells Allie she has to leave or that Victor will sell her to another pimp who will force her to let men ejaculate into her. This book is pretty good. We know this because when her husband dies she has less than $800 in the bank. 3:21. Summary: Bea, a widow living off Social Security, falls for a telephone scam and is forced to leave her home. What a heartwarming story. It did lighten up significantly after that, but it's not always sunshine and roses. Genre: Contemporary Fiction All rights reserved. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I read it quickly because whenever I could I read; I didn’t want to put it down, including choosing it over all other free time recreational activities. Refresh and try again. Yeah, it was a bit odd that I thought of Wild, but I think that was because both books involved journeys of self-discovery, and while Wild was inland, Allie and Bea’s journey was on the coast, and both books involved women going through personal issues and making life changes. Allie is naïve and trusting, and things do not go well at New Beginnings, and Allie and Bea end up crossing paths. Leaving most of her belongings behind her, except her cat, she heads out to try and figure out a way to get by. It’s in third person, but we get to see into what both Allie and Bea are thinking as the focus jumps between the two of them. So, I was a bit frustrated and wasn’t sure that this book was going to be one that I liked. Membership is free & gives you access to book giveaways, author chats & your private, free book club page. Then fate brings Allie and Bea together. Jasmine, her new friend, takes Allie to a home of child prostitution run by her pimp Victor. This is the moment when she loses all reader sympathy. Bea who becomes homeless and lives in her van. And all the parts of you that don’t fit with him have to go into hiding, and all the ones that do have to come to the surface and act like they’re the whole of you. Allie came from a good situation, but her parents got themselves in some deep trouble. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Bea has been trying to keep her finances in order after her husband died but no matter how thin she spreads the money her saving seem to dwindle endlessly. Meanwhile, Allie, a strong-willed teenager, has just been thrown into the CPS system because her wealthy parents have been arrested for tax fraud.

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