Title: Teach Me To Live
Author: Alannah Carbonneau
Release: April 12, 2016
Synopsis:
All I can do is wish for one more day…
to fall in love with you.
Madison Avery is the poster child for obedience. Ruled by anxiety and fear, she never expected Austin Weir. Everything about the tattooed blue-eyed boy shatters every well-configured law in the Avery house.
Teaching Madison to live, Austin breaks through the prison of her anxiety. They spend the summer taking chances, making memories and falling in love.
But love has no comprehension of time. It doesn’t fade when summer bleeds into fall and time ends. Love, like life, must continue.
Madison learns that love doesn’t exist within time. It is endless and unfading and heartbreaking.
But one lesson is learned: Love is living without regret.
Love is life.
Review by Lisa G:
This was the first book I’ve read from Alannah Carbonneau – honestly, I’m taken. I don’t even know how to put the words together for this review – I am hoping as I continue to type the words will come together. When I first started the story I felt it was a slow reading story – as if I had been reading forever yet I wasn’t very far into the book. Then all of a sudden everything came together and it was pure and devastatingly beautiful. This book broke me – LITERALLY – tears wouldn’t stop, I couldn’t think of anything else. I HAD to finish this story and find out what happens. Through the story, it is hinted as to what is going to happen, yet you cannot begin to prepare yourself for it – not even a little bit. Every tear that slid down my face was absolutely worth every heartbreaking moment of this story. I needed this story as a reminder of LIVING.
You fall in love with Madison immediately – she lives a sheltered life with overprotective parents. She doesn’t trust easily and really doesn’t have any friends. “ I had acquaintances and people I gravitated toward through school, but I never went out of my way to be a constant in their life” Can you imagine being so closed off because you are afraid of getting hurt? Then having these over protective parents – she was living a lonely life.
Madison meets the swoon-worthy Austin, who is completely tatted up, long hair and rides a motorcycle. He sets out to teach her how to live – literally. “oh, my goodness – my parents would send me to prison just for talking to this guy.” You know that saying “Never judge a book by its cover” ? Well this book is a strong reminder of that exact quote.
To watch Madison grow as a person, the way Austin teaches her to love life, it’s beautiful – amazingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. This story is a reminder to live each day as it is your last – enjoy all of your surroundings, every last detail. You can never live today again. Give out as many heart hugs as you possibly can – ALWAYS!
4.5 Stars from me! This story will stick with me for a long time. Thank you, Alannah for reminding me to give out those heart hugs!!
I received a complimentary copy of Teach Me To Live in exchange for an honest review.
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About Alannah Carbonneau
I live in Alberta, Canada, where the weather is forever changing (without warning). I married my high school sweetheart and love of my life in August 2015. There are no children in my life as of right now, but we do have a handful of rambunctious cats (five) and a testy, rescued Shepard/Husky, who take up a lot of my time.
Ever since I can remember, I’ve adored the written word. English was always my favorite class and that may be biased because I can’t count to save my life, so math was a horror! I remember the very first novel I ever read, Shocking Pink by Erica Spindler. It was the most interesting of the covers on my mom’s bookshelf (probably because it was pink) and I was way too young to be reading that novel. But I fell in love. From there, I read almost everything from V.C. Andrews.
My writing started out as poetry, which then evolved to songs, and later into novels. I was never one for the short stories as I found it too difficult to pack everything I imagined into something so small. I now have fourteen novels published independently. I write both novels for young adults and novels for adults – all romance.
Despite my favorite younger reading material, I now adore writing and reading all things romance.
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