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  • By: Christina Hoag
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  • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Girl on the Brink

By: Christina Hoag
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"An engrossing tale of a dangerous teen romance" --Kirkus Reviews Best of YA-Suspense magazine

"Gripping." "Scarily accurate." "Unputdownable." "Powerful." "Beautiful & shocking."

He was perfect. At first. The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Chloe starts an internship at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe is smitten with Kieran's charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents' impending divorce. As their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies into terrifying rages.

He confides in Chloe that he suffered a traumatic childhood, and Chloe is moved to help him. If only he could be healed, she thinks, their relationship would be perfect. Her efforts backfire. Kieran becomes violent. Chloe breaks up with him, but Kieran pursues her relentlessly. Chloe must make the heartrending choice between saving herself or saving Kieran, until his mission of remorse turns into a quest for revenge.

©2016 Christina Hoag (P)2022 Christina Hoag

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"An engrossing tale of a dangerous teen romance." (Kirkus Reviews

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Emotional and intelligent

I had to take a bit after finishing this book just to process the story I heard unfold before me. The struggles, the pain, the elation and the deverstating lows felt all too real. The book is fiction but the situation it depicts is not.

Chloe is our protagonist and she is very bubbly and ambitious at the beginning of the narrative, excited about her internship and the possibility of summer romance.
When that romance starts to turn sour she does everything she can to fix it and save the person she has come to care so much about, she blames herself and when her abuser turns her arguments on her, making her out to be the problem she starts to accept it. She loses her spark, allows herself to be isolated from her friends, made to look bad at her place of work.

As the story progresses you come to care more and more about Chloe and her situation, so many times I found myself going 'nope', 'well that's weird' or 'nah that is not a good sign'. The warning signs were there from the beginning and it's scary how easy it is to ignore them or write them off as a person's little quirks.

'as women we aren't taught to see the warning signs of abuse'

This is the standout statement of the whole novel because it's true. We aren't, we are sold the 'fairytale' from a very young age and when it starts to go wrong we try to hide it, pretend everything is ok, blame ourselves for the failure. Chloe doesn't even think of herself as a victim of domestic abuse, even after everything she's been through.

I think it was a very powerful choice to tell this story through the eyes of a teenager, as it's so easy to swept along by the 'whirlwind' romance of it, it's hard to spot the signs and I think girls and women of all ages and backgrounds should be taught the warning signs that could, possibly, one day save their life. it's a hard conversation to have but it is incredibly important.

This is a book that everyone should read, repeatedly. They should talk to their friends about it, they should talk to their kids about it, it should be on every reading book and book club list of must reads, it should be on school curriculum as a means to bring the subject up with teenagers, to help make them aware and open to talking about the red flags and warning signs of relationships such as the one depicted in the novel.

The author has done a fantastic job of opening up an incredibly difficult topic of conversation and I have to say the narrator gets the pitch and tone of the piece absolutely spot on, she is bright and bubby to start, then we hear her brightness slowly chipped away at, she conveys to us Chloe's feelings to a point where, we feel them ourselves.

Such a powerful book, I can't say enough positive things about it. Read it, listen to it, talk about it. Make others aware, open up that conversation.


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Beautifully read

This isn't the type of book I would usually listen to, it is aimed at a younger listener but it was a thoroughly enjoyable book. Perfect escapism for 2021!

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Great listen

I enjoyed listening to the audio version of this book. It was very easy to listen to and would be a good holiday read. I found the narrator very easy to listen to and the characters were relatable and well developed. I will look out for more from the author 😊

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Interesting story and great narration

Girl on the Brink could be used as a great conversation starter with teens as far as red flags for abusive relationships. I also found the comments at the beginning very relevant (in 2020) about diversity being a lasting issue. Overall, I found the story to be interesting.

Angela Rose Masi was a new narrator for me. She really impressed me with her accents and dialects for the different characters, most especially the support group characters. I can't think of any other story I've listened to where the characters had such drastically different speech patterns. It made the characters seem more diverse. There was some room for improvement in the editing, but I liked enough other stuff about the performance to overlook it.

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Interesting

Chloe meets Kieran whilst on a job for a local newspaper. What starts as a fun filled relationship soon turns into one where she is being manipulated and isolated from her friends. With her family falling to pieces around her, Chloe wants to help Kieran overcome his demons from his childhood. The story really showed how very subtlety someone can assert influence and control. When times are good you really want to believe in Kieran, when times are bad you want to shout as Chloe to run as fast as she can and not look back. Taking a tough subject I felt the author dealt with it sensitively and at times it made me feel uncomfortable, but that was important to the story as it made it much more realistic. An interesting listen.

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Absolutely brilliant well written poignant

Really enjoyed this book and saw myself in it and could empathise with the story, so very true

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Great great book a must.

I love books like these I love love love the kind that just have you glued from the very start, Christina Hoag absolutely did this for me in this book.

He was perfect. At first. The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Chloe starts an internship as a reporter at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe becomes smitten with Kieran’s charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents’ impending divorce. But as their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies into terrifying rages. He confides in Chloe that he suffered a traumatic childhood, and Chloe is moved to help him. If only he could be healed, she thinks, their relationship would be perfect. But her efforts backfire and Kieran becomes violent. Chloe breaks up with him, but Kieran pursues her relentlessly to make up. Chloe must make the heartrending choice between saving herself or saving Kieran, until Kieran’s mission of remorse turns into a quest for revenge.

This would be a great way to catch young girls attention in high school age to spread awareness that domestic abuse doesn't just happened in older or married couples, it could happen to just anyone.

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Heartbreakingly worth the listen

I received a free audiobook in exchange for an unbiased review.

When I first started listening to this book, I did not expect the very dark twists and lengths that this novel would go to, but, honestly, it was such an intensely good read. Masi did an incredible job of bringing the main character to life and you can’t help but feel for Chloe throughout the book.

Domestic violence is not an easy subject to broach, particularly in a novel for a younger audience, but Hoag does an amazing job at portraying the scenarios through her protagonist’s eyes. Not only do you want to reach into the book and protect Chloe yourself, but you also begin to understand the complexities within such a relationship and the internal and external turmoil such victims have to face. The last few chapters literally had me on the edge of my seat in shock and worry for Chloe.

I really recommend this book if you are a fan of novels by Holly Bourne or John Green.

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I thought this was a very well written and narrated book , it is very easy to follow with great characters , I really felt for the main character in this book and fell in love with her , please write a follow up book as I’d love to see her in the future

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Hard hitting!

Wow, this was a tough listen with what the character had to go through and her journey through domestic violence. So well written and narrated. It is worth your time to listen to this one. Thank you for an open and honest book.

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