Book Tour: I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU

Thank you so much to TBR and Beyond Tours for allowing me to take part in this tour for I Will Never Leave You. Recently I've been wanting to get into creepier/more thrilling books and this seemed like a great place to dive right in. The cover didn't appear too thrilling, but the summary felt haunting.

     

About The Book:

Title: I Will Never Leave You

Author: Kara A. Kennedy

Pub.Date: July 23, 2024

Find it: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound

This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex - girlfriend, who gives her a chilling ultimatum — help her possess another girl or go down for her murder.

Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to consider the idea of life outside of t heir volatile relationship. Until she finds the courage to break up with Alana while they’re hiking in Southern California.

Then Alana goes missing. As the police get involved and the media run wild with the story, everyone seems to think that Maya is lyin g about Alana’s disappearance. Secretly, Maya knows they’re if Alana’s dead, she’s the one to blame.

But that’s not Maya’s only secret. Alana isn’t gone, not really — and she isn’t going to let Maya go so easily...

Content Warning: emotional abuse, anxiety, on - page panic attacks, death of a parent (off - page, in the past)

 

Review:

This was an...interesting book to read. I don't mean that in a bad way, just that it feels like a hard book for me to read and review.

I wasn't immediately drawn into the book, but I was interested in it. Despite not wanting to constantly read it, it was always at the book of my head and something still compelled me to keep picking it up and reading it.

I thought the writing in this book was fantastic! Kara did a great job at building up the atmosphere of this book, while not losing any of the seriousness. Sometimes a book can try too hard that you just...don't believe it anymore. The author managed to find that line and not cross it.

The emotions in this book were written phenomenally. It was stunning. The main character had so much that she had to go through and unpack and you truly felt the weight of that on her shoulders. It was just very well-done!!!

 

 

About Kara A. Kennedy:

Kara A. Kennedy has been telling ghost stories — and sometimes living them — since childhood. She holds a BA in Professional Writing from Penn State University, where she worked as a writing tutor and cultivated a love of coffee. She lives in a historic and possibly haunted home in Pennsylvania with her partner and their two c ats. I Will Never Leave You is her debut novel.

You can find her on her website, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.