Rage: a Love Story
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · December 28, 2010
A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense portrait of first love where attraction and need pull in troubling directions.
- Themes
- Abusive relationships, First love, Attraction and need
- Genres
- YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Abuse & Trauma for Teens, Surviving Sexual Abuse
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A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship. Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt. Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna’s fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason.
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But love isn’t always reasonable, right? In the precarious place where attraction and need collide, a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light.
First Love, Unsteady
A tense portrait of first love where attraction and need pull in troubling directions.
Come here for
- A teenager’s determined, against-advice devotion
- The uneasy collision of attraction and need
Expect
- An intense look at an abusive relationship
- A struggle to find a way toward new light
Where it sits
| Abuse & Trauma for Teens | 95% |
|---|---|
| YA Romance - LGBTQ+ | 56% |
| Surviving Sexual Abuse | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA LGBTQ+
- Friendship for Teens
- Abuse & Trauma for Teens
- Authors
- Julie Anne Peters
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- December 28, 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Abusive relationships · First love · Attraction and need
- Reading lane
- YA LGBTQ+