Float

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this book was exactly what I needed! I’ll admit, the whole wattpad label had me a little bit conflicted on my expectations with this book, but it most certainly passed my expectations. How It Feels To Float by Helena Fox was written in quite a unique style. Its flowing prose captured my attention from the beginning and drew me in in a subtle way at first and then became more addictive as I got deeper into the story. The author, Helena Fox, drew from her own experiences of mental illness, to make How It Feels to Float believable and yet unpredictable. It was hard to put down once I started reading it. My emotions were all over the place as the story progressed. Life is terrible and beautiful isn’t it? It’s the best/worst at the exact same time, all possibilities at once. I guess it’s whatever it is when you observe it. And a second later, it’s something else.” Lovely writing. Fox does not write the average YA fiction here. She uses descriptive prose and free verse split into various formats to make its point of a young girl falling into madness over life, including losing her father to suicide. We see how her mind works via lucid and vivid language.

I. Love. This. Book. I originally read it years ago on Wattpad when it was still being posted chapter by chapter and I loved reading this new, polished version just as much. While she's there, Waverly finds her place among a group of friends, tries to learn to swim, and develops a romance with the next-door neighbor's son, Blake, a dreamy lifeguard. How It Feels To Float by Helena Fox was inspiring yet a hard book to read at times. It closely explored inter-generational mental illness and how the signs are so often missed. It was so hard for me to stop reading once I began. Biz's thoughts were intimate and troubled. Her mom's struggles to help Biz were genuine and heart-wrenching. How It Feels to Float was a young girl's efforts to accept her father's death, move past grief and begin to heal and get better. This was categorized as a YA book, but I think anyone would benefit from reading it and enjoy it. It is very thought provoking. I recommend How It Feels to Float very highly and will look for more books by Helena Fox in the future. It was hard to accept that this was Helena Fox's first novel that she had ever written. i really enjoyed the summer vibe this book radiated. the beach trips, to the sunscreen debacles, to the family barbeques, it truly felt like i had found myself in the middle of august instead of the beginning of april. i would absolutely love to re-read this book in the summer or while out at the beach. I remember making boats from newspaper in rainy days when I was a child. I remember the excitement when folding the paper, trying to make it perfect for a perfect performance. I remember the joy of seeing it surfing at great speed. I remember running along with it. I remember feeling disappointment when it got crushed or sunk.

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On the other hand, I see no real cons, other than it runs a little long. Some chapters could have been cut or edited for brevity. There was a time I walked into the sea and the sea almost took me, but a boy pulled me out and didn't speak to me afterwards, not once. note: this is an old review and the rating was originally four and a half stars but honestly this was a five star book, this silly little wattpad fic altered my brain chemistry and i desperately need to re-read it.

I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.initially, i was not expecting the characters to have as much depth as they did (i will admit, it's not loads and loads of depth but for a short standalone novel, it was a bit more that i was expecting.) float's characters ultimately had reasons to act in the individual ways they do. when starting this book i thought waverly was terribly bland and mediocre as the main character, however, as the story unfolds, it's clear to the reader why she acts so plainly. the same thought process applies to blake, lena, jesse, and alissa, there are reasons for their behaviours and it simultaneously implies a lesson to not judge somebody before truly getting to know them for they could be a better person than you originally thought. I didn’t fully understand the whole photos would speak to her and she wanted to travel to places her dad had been so that she could see him again. But I guess that’s the point - we don’t always understand how others cope, how others mind’s are affected by things. A] captivating new work, Float, might be the most stunning example to date… Carson is an innovator… Carson is a strange and immersive poet. It’s only after reading Float in its entirety – which I keep finding myself doing – that you realise its full effect.

I'd started my summer wanting to become someone else. Someone cooler. Someone braver. But I hadn't become someone else - I'd become myself, but better." Here's the good in this book: it's incredibly readable and fun, and you're rooting for insecure Waverly to develop her sea legs and sense of self. Some of the side characters, like Rachel and friends Lena and Jesse and Alissa are well-developed and really interesting. Am I better? Can you be better when you’re still sad—long patches of sad swooping in at night when there aren’t any sounds to cover it? Are you better when you still feel blank, fog rising in you, empty spaces like those moors people walk on in British films? Are you better when, as you’re going through the motions—talking, laughing, listening, walking the dog, helping Mum with dinner—at the same time there’s this lost feeling walking beside you, so you can touch it, like a tongue on a tooth? I get really frustrated when ya plots are based on a lie. once waverly lied and said that she could swim, the lies just kept adding up and they really didn't need to. her swim lessons with blake didn't really need to be secret. the whole time I expected it was all going to blow up in their faces at some point and it just. didn't. need. to.A stylish and functional addition to any room in your home, these types of wall shelves provide both storage and visual interest in often-overlooked corners. Corner shelves come in a variety of shapes, including triangular, hexagonal, and curved.