Sugaring Off, Gillian French
Sugaring Off, Gillian French
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Sugaring Off

Author: Gillian French

Narrator: Gillian French

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2022


Synopsis

ITW Thriller Award Finalist

A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Mindy McGinnis and Courtney Summers. Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle’s maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood tragedy that left her partially deaf and sent her father to jail. All Owl wants is to stay safe at the farm, her favorite place in the world, her refuge from those who would treat her differently.

Owl’s sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody—the magnetic, dangerous young man hired to help with the season’s sugaring off. Cody seems to see the real her, to look past her hearing loss in a way no one else does. Together, they find comfort in their similarities and exhilaration in their differences, and risk a romance their families are desperate to stop.

​But then Owl hears her father will be released from prison, and a seemingly motiveless murder shakes the foundations of her small town. When the crime draws all eyes to Cody, Owl realized he is in far more serious trouble than anyone knows—and it’s followed him to her mountain.

About Gillian French

GILLIAN FRENCH is an Edgar Award, Bram Stoker Award, and two-time International Thriller Award nominated author of mystery and suspense. Her previous novels include GRIT, THE LIES THEY TELL, THE MISSING SEASON, and SUGARING OFF, allpublished for a young adult audience. She lives in rural Maine with her husband and four sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole on November 04, 2022

This review can also be found at [URL not allowed] I thought that this was very good. I admit that the cover of this book is what first captured my attention but once I realized that the main character was hearing impaired, I knew that I needed to read this book. This is a slower story t......more

Goodreads review by Patty (IheartYA311) on August 25, 2023

The writing was pretty good but there wasn't much to the story. Nothing exciting happened until the end, but I guess that's what it's like to be a teenager.......more

Goodreads review by akacya ❦ on June 11, 2023

2023 reads: 178/350 content warnings (please note i may have missed some): past child abuse, incarcerated parent after the tragedy that landed her father in prison and owl with her aunt and uncle, she now is a wildlife enthusiast living on her aunt and uncle’s maple sugar farm. when a boy named cody c......more

Goodreads review by Wyatt on November 20, 2022

2.5 Getting a hardback when I can because this cover is so pretty Wyatt......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on September 27, 2023

Meh.......more


Quotes

ITW Thriller Award Finalist

"As in French’s other books, she treats her working-class characters with compassion but not preciousness, with a third-person narration that shows the complications of small-town life without exploiting it for drama.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

"Paced with the smoothness of flowing maple sugar, this book is to be savored."—SLJ

"As ever, French weaves her storylines deftly…By the time a thriller plot kicks in, readers will be thoroughly embedded."—Kirkus Reviews

"At turns lyrical and stark, Sugaring Off is a foray into the wilderness of New Hampshire’s mountains, a sensitive portrait of coming of age in rural America, and a spine-tingling thriller. Gillian French, like Delia Owens and Kristin Hannah, weaves her characters and the natural world they inhabit together masterfully."—Cameron Kelly Rosenblum, author of The Stepping Off Place, a Kirkus Best Book of 2020

"A work of great beauty. Part mystery, part a story of love and loss, it’s all heart."—Betty Culley, award-winning author of Three Things I Know Are True