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Beneath the Distant Star
“Discover what you already have.”
LIFE IS TO LIVE, TO HOLD AND CHERISH...SO EMBRACE THE STARS.
Jasmine feels like the ghost of the sister she can no longer remember.
Her existence reminds her mother she has something her sister never will—life—and their fragile relationship shatters.
Jasmine craves love and acceptance but refuses to be her sister, Freya, and fights to become her own person. Life becomes a battleground as she disregards the rules and resolves to live her life to the fullest.
Jasmine’s reckless abandon threatens to destroy the very thing she needs most.
LIFE IS TO LIVE, TO HOLD AND CHERISH...SO EMBRACE THE STARS.
Jasmine feels like the ghost of the sister she can no longer remember.
Her existence reminds her mother she has something her sister never will—life—and their fragile relationship shatters.
Jasmine craves love and acceptance but refuses to be her sister, Freya, and fights to become her own person. Life becomes a battleground as she disregards the rules and resolves to live her life to the fullest.
Jasmine’s reckless abandon threatens to destroy the very thing she needs most.
202 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 14, 2015
5 people want to read
About the author
Lisa Shambrook
23 books66 followersLisa began weaving intricate stories inside her imagination from a young age, but these days her words find themselves bursting forth in the forms of flash fiction, short stories and novels.
She was born and raised in vibrant Brighton, England, and living by the ocean heavily influenced her lyrical and emotional writing. She works with the senses, description and colour, and her readers will easily visualise the narrative. A wife and mother, Lisa draws inspiration from family life, faith, memory and imagination. Since having her first of three children, Lisa has lived in Carmarthen, West Wales, another town rich in legend and lore.
Lisa loves family time, walking the family's excitable German Shepherd, beaches, photography, art and last, but not least, writing. She says, “There’s nothing better than losing yourself inside your imagination!”
Lisa’s debut novel 'Beneath the Rainbow' www.amzn.to/RrHcK1 and its sequel ‘Beneath the Old Oak’ http://amzn.to/1Een7bt are both available in paperback and ebook at Amazon.
You can follow her blog at www.thelastkrystallos.wordpress.com or checkout her website at www.lisashambrook.com
She was born and raised in vibrant Brighton, England, and living by the ocean heavily influenced her lyrical and emotional writing. She works with the senses, description and colour, and her readers will easily visualise the narrative. A wife and mother, Lisa draws inspiration from family life, faith, memory and imagination. Since having her first of three children, Lisa has lived in Carmarthen, West Wales, another town rich in legend and lore.
Lisa loves family time, walking the family's excitable German Shepherd, beaches, photography, art and last, but not least, writing. She says, “There’s nothing better than losing yourself inside your imagination!”
Lisa’s debut novel 'Beneath the Rainbow' www.amzn.to/RrHcK1 and its sequel ‘Beneath the Old Oak’ http://amzn.to/1Een7bt are both available in paperback and ebook at Amazon.
You can follow her blog at www.thelastkrystallos.wordpress.com or checkout her website at www.lisashambrook.com
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March 16, 2019
This book brings readers into the struggles of a teenager whose family has been dealt a tragedy that altered their lives forever. The event occurs many years prior when Jasmine was very young so she hardly remembers the "before". Because of this, what we don't get as the reader is a view into the past that would allow a better understanding of how the relationship between Jasmine and her mother came to be what it is today. We don't get any insight to the mother's perspective so the reader is unable to sympathize at all and is left angered and frustrated with her. The father is the "man in the middle" yet he doesn't seem to do anything to bridge the gap, he simply stands in it. 99% of the book is about the pain and the emotional turmoil of Jasmine's 15th year and then suddenly there is a breakthrough and all is well. So much healing needed to be done with this family yet there was not really any therapeutic events or talks that occurred to make the ending fit in the timeline.
There is also the thread of bullying weaved in for Jasmine's cousin but it too is just sort of ended. There wasn't really any closure to the experiences and emotions that Jasmine's cousin was dealing with. Jasmine's actions may have ended the bullying, but there is so much more that needs healing with situations like that for the bullied child. The parents of these children just seem to be completely separated emotionally from their children.
This is the final book in a series so perhaps the lack of knowledge from the first books taints my view of this one and creates the lack of understanding of the parents. Overall, I really like the idea of the story line. Jasmine can easily be related to and she pulls at your heart strings throughout the entire story.
There is also the thread of bullying weaved in for Jasmine's cousin but it too is just sort of ended. There wasn't really any closure to the experiences and emotions that Jasmine's cousin was dealing with. Jasmine's actions may have ended the bullying, but there is so much more that needs healing with situations like that for the bullied child. The parents of these children just seem to be completely separated emotionally from their children.
This is the final book in a series so perhaps the lack of knowledge from the first books taints my view of this one and creates the lack of understanding of the parents. Overall, I really like the idea of the story line. Jasmine can easily be related to and she pulls at your heart strings throughout the entire story.
February 22, 2020
The book pretty accurately portrayed emotional conflict, angst, and anger of a teen.
However I felt that 80% of the book was spent on conflict the resolution was a bit too fast. I found it a bit unbelievable. However, given all this I still enjoyed it.
There is big overuse of the exclamation mark in the book and I found it jarring. Why do the protagonists shout three long sentences in a row but the narrator's comment was 'said'. There were times where it was appropriate, when the characters were screeching but in many times it wasn't. With all this I felt like people were screaming very loudly throughout the book.
However I felt that 80% of the book was spent on conflict the resolution was a bit too fast. I found it a bit unbelievable. However, given all this I still enjoyed it.
There is big overuse of the exclamation mark in the book and I found it jarring. Why do the protagonists shout three long sentences in a row but the narrator's comment was 'said'. There were times where it was appropriate, when the characters were screeching but in many times it wasn't. With all this I felt like people were screaming very loudly throughout the book.
December 11, 2015
Jasmine feels like she lives in the shadow of her sister Freya. The problem is that Freya's tragic death is still very much a part of her mother's life, leaving little room for Jasmine. As a result, Jasmine struggles to get out from under the shadow and be her own person.
Jasmine doesn't have many memories of her sister, yet she is impacted so much by Freya. I found myself drawn into the story and read the book rather quickly. It was a touching, heartfelt story - the kind of book you read and it lingers in your mind afterwards.
(I borrowed this book using my Kindle Unlimited.)
Jasmine doesn't have many memories of her sister, yet she is impacted so much by Freya. I found myself drawn into the story and read the book rather quickly. It was a touching, heartfelt story - the kind of book you read and it lingers in your mind afterwards.
(I borrowed this book using my Kindle Unlimited.)
November 1, 2015
Grab a tissue when you read this book. It's gritty and raw and brimming with emotion. Shambrook dives into the emotions of a wounded teenage girl in realistic, gut-wrenching fashion.
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