Book Review
Title: Paintbrush
Author: Hannah Bucchin
Rating: ★★★★
Date Published: July 11, 2017
Publisher: Blaze Publishing
Genre: YA Contemporary
Buy the Book: Amazon
Synopsis:
Mitchell Morrison and Josie Sedgwick have spent their whole lives at the Indian Paintbrush Community Village, a commune full of colorful characters tucked in the mountains of North Carolina, and they aren't particularly close--at least, not anymore. Josie wishes she could spend all of her time at Paintbrush planting tomatoes, hiking the trails, or throwing giant communal birthday parties, while Mitchell can’t wait to escape the bizarre spiritual sharing and noisy community dinners. Luckily for both of them, high school graduation is just around the corner.
But when Mitchell’s mother makes a scandalous announcement that rocks the close-knit Paintbrush community, and Josie’s younger sister starts to make some dangerously bad decisions, the two find themselves leaning on each other for support – and looking at each other in a whole new light. Their childhood friendship blossoms in to something more as they deal with their insane families, but as graduation approaches, so does life in the real world, forcing Josie and Mitchell to figure out what, exactly, their relationship is – and if it can survive their very different plans for the future.
But when Mitchell’s mother makes a scandalous announcement that rocks the close-knit Paintbrush community, and Josie’s younger sister starts to make some dangerously bad decisions, the two find themselves leaning on each other for support – and looking at each other in a whole new light. Their childhood friendship blossoms in to something more as they deal with their insane families, but as graduation approaches, so does life in the real world, forcing Josie and Mitchell to figure out what, exactly, their relationship is – and if it can survive their very different plans for the future.
My Thoughts:
I was sent an eArc by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
My summer has been filled with contemporary reads and I have
loved it! Paintbrush was one of my summer reads and I fell in love with it!
Josie and Mitchell have lived in the Paintbrush Community and known each other
for as long as they can remember, but they could not be more different!
Mitchell cannot wait to graduate so he can leave Paintbrush, and never
comeback. Josie loves the community and feels like she needs to take care of
her sisters since her mom likes to be more like a friend than a mother.
I really liked the idea of the Paintbrush Community, they
were like a big family, even though they weren’t related they took care of each
other like they were; I’m not going to lie though just like any family some of
them were kind of a little out there. I have always like the friends turned to lovers’
trope because it shows how the relationship built up and how the characters fell
in love! I really loved Mitchell, I completely understood his desire to leave
Paintbrush to go to college and travel to different places, it’s something I
have always wanted to do and I just found his character so relatable. Josie’s development
trough out the story was very well done, I loved the way she cared for her mom
and sisters, but I was so happy that she figured out that she needed to do what
made HER happy. The author did an amazing job building the character
relationships and adding the perfect amount of drama to keep me turning the
page. The ending was perfect and I cannot wait to read more about these two characters
and see where their stories go.
SandraTheBookWorm
