Skip to main content

E-book Alert | Life Without Friends by Ellen Emerson White


I have been waiting for this day for what feels like forever. If you've followed this blog for basically any length of time, you have heard me singing the praises of Ellen Emerson White. I am a devoted fan of her spectacular President's Daughter and Echo Company series. And you should read and own them and spread the good word immediately. But Life Without Friends. This book was the beginning for me. Beverly and Derek and Boston and the Public Gardens. From my review:
This book kind of ate me alive at fourteen, and I have reread it pretty much every year since. It has become what you might call a Monster Comfort Read.
I have been buying up used copies of this previously out-of-print book for years now and sending them to readers I knew needed them. I am so delighted to let you know it's now available on Kindle for just $2.99 or free with Kindle Unlimited. And I really love the new Kindle cover (above left), while I will always be inordinately attached to the original cover (above right). They're both Beverly to me. I feel like I don't even need to say it at this point, but I will anyway. You know what to do.
Buy
Labels:

Comments

  1. Li2:44 PM

    Hurrah, thanks for the heads up! I noticed she also had what looks like a standalone in KU - ALL EMERGENCIES, RING SUPER. Have you read this one?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Angiegirl3:34 PM

      I have! I tracked down a used copy ages ago and enjoyed it. I wish it had been able to turn into the series it could have been.

      Delete
  2. Misti2:12 PM

    Oh, I have been meaning to read this after hearing you talk about it so many times... I loved the Echo Company books. Can I just jump into this one or should I try and read FRIENDS FOR LIFE first? I’m not exactly sure how they relate to each other.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Angiegirl2:54 PM

      Aren't the Echo Company books wonderful? So this is a companion novel to FRIENDS FOR LIFE and not a direct sequel, as Beverly is a minor character in that book. I think this is the stronger of the two books and can stand alone, but its entire premise is based on the events (and fallout) of FRIENDS FOR LIFE.

      Delete
  3. GingerSnaps5:07 AM

    I love this book! It has been one of my favorites since I was 12! It made a great impact. I think this with the companion, Firends for Life, would be great adapted into a tv show for Netflix.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

You Might Also Like

Angie's 2025 Must Be Mine

  As ever, begin as you mean to go on. And so here are my most anticipated titles of 2025: And we're still waiting for covers on these, but I'm just as excited for each of them: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 9 by Beth Brower Wish You Were Here by Jess K. Hardy Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Pitcher Perfect by Tessa Bailey Father Material by Alexis Hall Alchemised by SenLinYu Breakout Year by K.D. Casey What titles are on your list?
Post a Comment
Read more

Bibliocrack Review | You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

If I'm being perfectly honest with myself, I've done a shamefully poor job of addressing my love for Cat Sebastian 's books around these parts. I've certainly noted each time her beautiful stories have appeared on my end-of-the-year best of lists, see:  The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes ,  basically every book in  The Cabots series , and of course  We Could Be So Good .  And the pull is, quite simply, this: nobody is as kind and gentle with their characters and with their hearts than Cat Sebastian. Nobody. I haven't always been one for the gentler stories, but I cannot overstate the absolute gift it is sinking into one of Sebastian's exquisitely crafted historicals knowing that I get to spend the next however many pages watching two idiots pine and deny that feelings exist and just  take care of each other  as they fall in love. I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. Not this one or any other.  Only two things in the world people count b...
2 comments
Read more

Angie's Best Books of 2024

Looking back at it now, it was a really solid reading year. I mean, it did its usual (for me) thing and meandered its merry way, here and there, up and down, and in fits and starts across the span of all twelve months. But it really did shape up nicely. Which is a good thing, because it was—shockingly, I know—another year in which we so desperately needed the authors and books and words of the world to come through for us. And they did, didn't they?  I am, as ever, so grateful for them and their willingness to push through every barrier and battle that I know must try to keep them from putting their visions on paper. And so, as has long been my custom, I record here my list of published books that saw me through the year. Gifts, every one.   (listed in the order in which I read them) The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake Bride by Ali Hazelwood You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian Once Persuaded, Twice Shy by Melodie Edwards Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary Lips Like Sugar by Jes...
4 comments
Read more