Blog Tour: A Dark Road by Amanda Lance

 

A Dark Road by Amanda Lance

BLOG TOUR

January 12-16, 2015

Not every friendship is as harmless as it seems. Loner James McKay wants nothing to do with Hadley Grayson. After all, the last thing a drug dealer needs is the pretty, new girl trying to be friends. Walking distractions like her lead to trouble, the kind that can get you 10 to 15 behind bars. Likewise, fencing champion Hadley Grayson isn’t thrilled about her family uprooting her during her senior year of high school. At least there’s James McKay, the quiet, mad scientist who is as adorable as he is mysterious. Though McKay may reject the idea of friendship, he gets one whether he wants it or not. But once the lies are told and the rumors spread, the dangers of meth making and dealing are impossible to avoid. Between secrets and overdosing classmates, McKay and Hadley will learn that loneliness can be a two-way street, changing both of their lives forever.

~~I received this in exchange for my honest opinion~~

I don’t know where to begin this review. A Dark Road is a very powerful book. It has a very strong and very real life problem in its pages. This book deals with life. When parents get the call that they are going to have to up root their family and move somewhere else, it disrupts the normal that you know. But it also make you learn about new people. New places. Ways of life that people lead. It also opens you up to the unknown.

Hadley is the captain of the fencing team back in Connecticut. When her mom gets a job at a dealership in Ravel, Pennsylvania, Hadley and her twin brother Simon, along with their father up and move from what they know to the unknown. Hadley doesn’t like the change. She misses her old friends, and she misses fencing. What this move does do though, it brings her to McKay.

McKay is a loner. He watches the sheep at the school every day, wishing he could leave and never look back. He only needs to cook a few more times, then he will have enough money to do just that. He doesn’t want to do this forever, just until he has enough money. That is, until he sees her. Hadley Greyson. She is everything wonderful and bright to him in his dismal life. He doesn’t want her to get too close. He has to be careful.

This book is nothing like I ever read before. You think you know what is going on, them BAM, a curveball is actually a floater with a twist on it. I never saw the twists and turns that Amanda took with this book. This isn’t your HEA, if that is what you are thinking. I am giving this book 5 wonderful bright stars. I am not going to sit here and type out the entire book for you, you need to purchase it. This book makes you look at things differently. It makes that one special person in your life more special now than it did before you started reading this book. The book is a wonderful book that will leave you speechless. It took me 24 plus hours to get this review written because I am still re-reading it in my mind. This is the kind of book that will stick with you for a while. The people that Amanda has in this book are only out for themselves. At least a few people in this book are. I cried at the end of this book. I didn’t realize what was going on until it was over. I re-read the last chapter at least 5 times. This is a beautiful book that is about real life (this is a book of fiction, but what goes on it this book is real life). The trials and the hardships. The friendships and the loves that we have along the way. 

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A native of New Jersey and lifelong nerd, Amanda Lance recently completed her Master in Liberal Arts at Thomas Edison State College after her BA in English Literature and AFA in creative writing. She currently resides in Easton Pennsylvania with her boyfriend and their spoiled hound dog. She is a cliché booknerd who is terrible at math, clinically obsessive, and prone to addictive behavior. She may or may not be a recluse.