Tradition, Brendan Kiely
Tradition, Brendan Kiely
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Tradition

Author: Brendan Kiely

Narrator: Alex McKenna, Robbie Daymond

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2018


Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Kiely, a stunning new novel that explores the insidious nature of tradition at a prestigious boarding school.

Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy, an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy branches over its brick walkways. But some traditions upheld in its hallowed halls are profoundly dangerous.

Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down, avoid distractions, and get into the right college, so she can leave Fullbrook and its old-boy social codes behind. She wants freedom, but ex-boyfriends and ex-best friends are determined to keep her in place.

Jamie Baxter feels like an imposter at Fullbrook, but the hockey scholarship that got him in has given him a chance to escape his past and fulfill the dreams of his parents and coaches, whose mantra rings in his ears: Don't disappoint us.

When Jamie and Jules meet, they recognize in each other a similar instinct for survival, but at a school where girls in the student handbook are rated by their looks, athletes stack hockey pucks in dorm room windows like notches on a bedpost, and school-sponsored dances push first year girls out into the night with senior boys, the stakes for safe sex, real love, and true friendship couldn't be higher.

As Jules and Jamie's lives intertwine, and the pressures to play by the rules and remain silent about the school's secrets intensify, they see Fullbrook for what it really is. That tradition, a word Fullbrook hides behind, can be ugly, even violent. Ultimately, Jules and Jamie are faced with the difficult question: can they stand together against classmates--and an institution--who believe they can do no wrong?

About Brendan Kiely

Brendan Kiely is the New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys (with Jason Reynolds), Tradition, The Last True Love Story, and The Gospel of Winter. His most recent book is The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege. His work has been published in over a dozen languages, and has received the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, the Walter Dean Meyers Award, and ALA’s Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. A former high school teacher, he is now on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program. He watches too much basketball and reads too many books at the same time, but most importantly, he lives for and loves his wife and son. Find out more at BrendanKiely.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dannii on May 03, 2018

Campus novels will never fail to pique my interest. But when I see an elite campus-set novel that provides an insight to the rape culture perpetuated there, I am doubly sold! This split-perspective tale follows two outsiders to the exclusive Fullbrook Acadamy. Jules Devereux is the girl who is going......more

1.5 STARS bumped up to 2 for trying. TRADITION checks all the boxes for books I usually love. Boarding school? Check Sexual assault and recovery? Check Calling out toxic masculinity? Check Here’s the BUT: but I not only didn’t love the story, I didn’t even like it. Some men write women so well, I don’t......more

Goodreads review by Cori on May 14, 2018

3.5 Stars!......more

Goodreads review by Norwyn on May 03, 2019

5+/5 Sterne Elite Die Welt gehört euch nicht. von Brendan Kiely Bastei Lübbe „Dafür steht die altehrwürdige Fullbrook Academy. James Baxter stammt aus bescheidenen Verhältnissen und verdankt seinen Platz an der Highschool einem Eishockey-Stipendium. Er ist ein Außenseiter in dieser Welt der Privilegierte......more

Goodreads review by Amitaf0208 on September 19, 2018

i love stories set in boarding schools. Enjoyed this story immensely. Loved the central characters.......more