Maybe With a Chance of Certainty Tales From Foster High Book One edition by John Goode Literature Fiction eBooks
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Kyle has worked hard at being the invisible student, toiling through high school in the middle of Nowhere, Texas. Brad is the baseball star at Foster High. Both boys are damaged in ways that the rest of the world can’t see. When they bond over a night of history tutoring, Kyle thinks that maybe his life has taken a turn for the not-so-lonely.
He finds out quickly that the promise of fairy-tale love is a lie when you’re gay and falling for one of the most popular boys in school, and if being different is a sin in high school, then being gay is the biggest sin of all. Now Kyle and Brad need to come to an understanding amidst the scrutiny of their peers or their fledgling relationship will crash and burn before it ever gets off the ground.
Maybe With a Chance of Certainty Tales From Foster High Book One edition by John Goode Literature Fiction eBooks
I bought this book (and the rest of the series) and obviously started with this one first - duh! I read and LOVED it. Then I had the chance to listen to the audio version. And WOW!If I thought I enjoyed the story the first time round, the audio version just improved on it. The narrator, Michael Stellman, enhances the story and takes nothing away. It was so interesting to compare my thoughts on the story from my own reading experience versus my thoughts from the listening experience. Sometimes the narrator's voice and style doesn't match the characters I have built in my head but this one hit the nail on the head - brilliant! Michael Stellman's voice captured Kyle perfectly with a real sense of youth and emotion.
I loved the style of writing and characters were totally wonderful. I loved the emotion and challenge of growing up. I loved the nerd and the jock facing life head on. I loved public confrontations and grand gestures. But most of all I loved the strength and honesty.
I haven't read the second book, End of the Beginning yet but have started listening to the audio version. I'm not too far in but loving the continuation of the story, this time from Brad's point of view.
I wouldn't usually come right out and recommend an audio book over the ebook or print edition (I'm a bit old-school that way and prefer the characters in my head) but this is the reverse for me. I actually originally rated the written book as a 4/4.5 but it is now a definite 5 and moving to my favourites shelf!
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Maybe With a Chance of Certainty Tales From Foster High Book One edition by John Goode Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is the beginning of a great series!
You begin the journey of the two boys by meeting Kyle, the typical loaner at high school. Kyle hides his sexuality via being as invisible as possible. For this character, the author does a great job at building his personality and making you really fall in love with Kyle.
This is the first book of the series and is told from the perspective of Kyle.
As the book goes on you meet Brad who is the typical school jock with a secret. He sets his sights on Kyle and the story only grows from there.
I have read many gay books, especially the short stories and the series and this stands on its own as a very well written novel. The author does a great job at keeping you interested in the story and he creates characters that you will love and enjoy. This is a great high school romance and is definitely a believe one at that.
If you are a hopeless romantic that loves a good love story that brings back your own memories, you will love this one!
"I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do know the moment I began to feel fixed. It was the day the green-eyed boy fell in love with me." (Kyle)
Maybe With a Chance of Certainty is a coming of age novel like no other. Its story revolves around Kyle, a battered, oft physically abused 17 year old who lives with a drunken mother and a fear that someday someone will truly see him, will discover he is gay and will force him out into the light of day that he so adroitly avoids. Enter Brad, baseball hero, god of high school fame, abused and broken 17 year old who steadfastly hides in the closet until he sees Kyle, really sees him and knows...knows that this is what he has been missing...that this boy is one he likes maybe, with a chance of certainty.
This book is, in my opinion, a must read for any young man or woman struggling to make their way in this world. It is a hand placed carefully, lovingly on the shoulder of a nation of broken teens whose thoughts gravitate toward suicide, and self-doubt, despair and self-loathing...it is a whisper into their fragile hearts and worried minds that says, I know you...I see you...I want you to know...you are not alone.
This book is never glib or self-important but it is humorous and self-aware. This book is never trite or condescending but it does dare to look at the smallest of fears and bring them into the light and it does meet us right at the emotional level we live and it says we have the right to live there, to feel as we do.
This book, this sweet moment of a life that has been so trapped in fear and so relentlessly battered cries out that each one of us deserves the chance to be happy, deserves the right to be cherished, deserves the right to live without fear.
Never does this novel insult us by offering sweet and bland euphemisms for the feelings that real teens experience every day. It does not look at the sometimes hellish place high school can be for so many and paint it with a fairy tale brush. It does not demand that we "get over it" and move on because "someone else always has it worse than us". No, this books says, your life is important...your pain is real...your story is one worth telling...one I want to hear.
John Goode allows us to see how people can be standing right in front of us and we can miss it--miss their pain, miss their hurt, miss them completely if we never stop and take the moment to look, really look and see who they are, how beautiful they are, how special they are.
Every once in a while, a novel comes along and it grabs us and shakes us to our very core. And after we have finished, we understand that we have been made just a bit better by the reading of it...that we have been made just a bit richer because of it, that we have been shown truth and love in its purest form. That is what John Goode's novel, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty, has done for me.
I liked this book better than the rest of the series. I may be remembering this incorrectly by I think it stayed with Kyle's POV (been awhile since I've read this) and I found him 100 times more interesting than his boyfriend. I loved how the story started and how it progressed - seeing Kyle gain in confidence. I also loved the character of Robbie and his interplay with Kyle - great sparring. In the later books Kyle gets just a little too righteous and I got weary of him taking on every single issue. I would've just enjoyed the character study of him and his boyfriend and his friends - but I understand where the author was coming from and kudos to him. I also very much enjoyed the writing - it seemed very true to each character. Kyle is someone we all should strive to be.
I bought this book (and the rest of the series) and obviously started with this one first - duh! I read and LOVED it. Then I had the chance to listen to the audio version. And WOW!
If I thought I enjoyed the story the first time round, the audio version just improved on it. The narrator, Michael Stellman, enhances the story and takes nothing away. It was so interesting to compare my thoughts on the story from my own reading experience versus my thoughts from the listening experience. Sometimes the narrator's voice and style doesn't match the characters I have built in my head but this one hit the nail on the head - brilliant! Michael Stellman's voice captured Kyle perfectly with a real sense of youth and emotion.
I loved the style of writing and characters were totally wonderful. I loved the emotion and challenge of growing up. I loved the nerd and the jock facing life head on. I loved public confrontations and grand gestures. But most of all I loved the strength and honesty.
I haven't read the second book, End of the Beginning yet but have started listening to the audio version. I'm not too far in but loving the continuation of the story, this time from Brad's point of view.
I wouldn't usually come right out and recommend an audio book over the ebook or print edition (I'm a bit old-school that way and prefer the characters in my head) but this is the reverse for me. I actually originally rated the written book as a 4/4.5 but it is now a definite 5 and moving to my favourites shelf!
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