Trust

De: Kylie Scott

Narrado por: Andi Arndt

Being young is all about the experiences: the first time you skip school, the first time you fall in love...the first time someone holds a gun to your head.

After being held hostage during a robbery at the local convenience store, 17-year-old Edie finds her attitude about life shattered. Unwilling to put up with the snobbery and bullying at her private school, she enrolls at the local public high school, crossing paths with John. The boy who risked his life to save hers.

While Edie's beginning to run wild, however, John's just starting to settle down. After years of partying and dealing drugs with his older brother, he's going straight - getting to class on time and thinking about the future.

An unlikely bond grows between the two as John keeps Edie out of trouble and helps her broaden her horizons. But when he helps her out with another first - losing her virginity - their friendship gets complicated.

Meanwhile, Edie and John are pulled back into the dangerous world they narrowly escaped. They were lucky to survive the first time, but this time they have more to lose - each other.

©2017 Kylie Scott (P)2017 Macmillan Audio

THIS WAS A GREAT STORY!!!

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This was super great!! I am impressed with the way this story went, and as a YA book from this author...it was fantastic....Edie and John are put through a very traumatic experienced, and it changed both their young lives...both for the better and ultimately brought them together, where they help each other to heal!! I love this!! I want more!! lol

Totally recommend..you will love this too!!!

This is a fantastic story

I feel in love with this story. I heard many great things about this book, so I decided to buy and listen. I'm so glad I did. This book sucked me in, making it almost impossible to put down.
Edie and John endure horrible things together and together make it through these horrible things. Their bond goes beyond love, it has issues, don't get me wrong, but it fits them perfectly.
Andi Arndt does a great job at narrating!
This book is def worth a credit.

TRUST that this book is amazing

Would you listen to Trust again? Why?

Yes, this will be a repeat. It's such an emotional ride. You get to feel all the feels!

What other book might you compare Trust to and why?

This will date me, but Judy Blume wrote a couple of books that I would compare to this.

Have you listened to any of Andi Arndt’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have a few books in my library because she was the performer. I love her voice.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I liked it when Edie discovers her own self worth. When she realizes that all people no matter weight or color are beautiful.

Any additional comments?

This is so worth the money or credit. No disappointment here!

A little predictable but enjoyable

and how can you go wrong with Andi Arndt? honestly, she can make any so so book good. but I did enjoy this story.

Another fantastic read by Kylie Scott

Although her first in a new genre, Kylie knocks it out of the park with Trust. Her storytelling is spot on, drawing you in and keeping you there. Between her stellar writing and Andi Arndt's fantastic performance, I was unable to put this one down, inhaling it in a single, non-stop session. Her characters were totally identifiable and she nailed the high school experience, as well as the insecurities that prevail at that age. I was rooting for Edie and John, loving how their friendship and relationship developed. I want to check in with them in ten years and see them still together, closer and more bonded than ever. Like a really good story should, it left me wanting more.

Love!

This is my first book to read of Kylie's and I am a huge fan now! Can't wait to start another one!

Great story!

I love this writer. I did not expect this kind of story from her. It is different and the characters are strong

Liked the book!

I was expecting the book to be lame when I realized soon after starting that the book was about high school kids. It was still a good book and I wasn't annoyed or disappointed at all. Second book I've read by this author and I've purchased many more!

Great story, but would have liked a younger voice

Trust by Kylie Scott was a different read for me. I am not usually a YA reader, but I enjoy Kylie Scott’s writing and there was good buzz surrounding this, so I bought it on audio. It was pretty mature for YA, so I would say it straddles YA & NA. They are Seniors in high school, and the themes are very real. It deals with guns, drugs, sex, PTSD, bullying and more, but it never felt morose. There was a hopeful feel throughout the book.

17 year old Edie goes to a snobby private school. She is a bit overweight and a bookworm and does not fit in there. She is bullied at school, but still has a best friend. One night she heads to the local convenience store for munchies for a sleepover with her friend, when a meth-head with a gun comes in to rob the place and holds the gun on her.

"I was going to die, here, tonight, in the Drop Stop in my (effing) pajamas. This was it."

Wow, that first scene was intense and so real-feeling. There was another good-looking young guy in the store that was able to talk to the gunman enough to save her life. He then risked his life to save hers.

After, with the press going crazy, her ‘best friend’ just looking to get in the spotlight, and the attention from the bullies, Edie has changed her attitude towards life, and decides she will not go back to that private school, and enrolls in the local public school. And, you guessed it. The gorgeous boy who saved her life goes there.

“He was beautiful and I . . . I was nothing. An out-of-her-depth girl who wore too much black and feared the bulk of society.”

Edie is having nightmares. Everything has changed since the shooting. But at the same time, she is making friends at her new school, and they seem pretty great. I loved seeing how much she grew during the story.

“Now I know how much there is to be afraid of and it terrifies me. But at the same time, I feel like if I could live through that, what happened to us, then I can survive anything. Like, what is there really to be afraid of?"

Everyone had a crush on bad-boy John. He was the school’s weed dealer before the hold-up, but after, he wanted to change, become a better person. If only everyone would stop asking him for weed. Edie was there for him. She understood what is was like to go through such a life threatening scare, so the two bonded. But John knew he was a bad-boy and she was a good girl. As much as he wanted and needed her, he couldn’t ruin her too.

"Why did you tell yourself not to come here?"
"Because I'm poison." His eyes fixed on mine. "I don't want to drag you down... There's no coming back from that."

As they both healed and changed together, it was wonderful to see. The things that are really important to most high school kids seem ridiculous after you almost die. Nobody else can really get that unless they have been through it as well.

"So my thighs were thick and my belly bulged. So what. I was alive and allowed to take up space. "
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"I found it hard to care. I mean, what did it matter? Life went on; no one had died as a result. The principal said it would go on my permanent record. Permanent? Please. Bullets were permanent. Everything else was temporary."

This was a sweet romance about first love as well, and though there is sex, it was tasteful enough for about 15 and up.

"I couldn't get close enough, no matter how I tried. Eyes hazy and lips wet, he kissed me slow and sweet. It seemed endless, as necessary to life as breathing."

Likes:

•Unique and compelling storyline.
•So real, deals with so many of the issues kids face daily.
•Great side characters.
•So much depth to the storyline.
•The way the characters evolved and changed.
•The sweet first-love romance.

Dislikes:

•Kind of an abrupt ending.

Narration:
I enjoy Andi Arndt as a narrator but honestly thought she was all wrong for this for two reasons, she is very overused and we have heard her do very hot, mature books very often, and her voice is just too old for a 17 year old. I would have been much happier with a younger, less-known voice.

The Down & Dirty:
Trust by Kylie Scott is an older young adult book that deals with some pretty serious and very real issues for teens. It was a compelling and unique story and I hung on to every word. Despite some of the upsetting themes, it still had a hopeful, almost happy vibe. I really loved the main characters and their friends and reading a YA was a good change of pace. Though I love Andi Arndt as a narrator, I did feel that her voice was a little too mature for the book, but of course, she was still pretty great. I highly recommend this one, but for me, I think I would choose the book over the audiobook.

Rating: 4.25 Stars, 3 Heat, 3.5 Narration

great listen

I loved it, finished it in one sitting even tagging it when I couldn't listen!