Publisher:
S&S
Release
Date: 24th
April 2014
Edition:
e-proof,
review copy
Get
ready for boy dilemmas, friendship dramas and madcap grannies – Faith is back!
Will
Faith make her mind up between the gorgeous Finn and the lovely Ethan and
manage to get herself a real-life boyfriend?
Will
Mrs Cox finally get off her case and recognise Faith’s true genius?
Will
Faith’s family learn how to be normal, non-embarrassing people?
Will
Faith and her BFF’s beat the world record for the number of biscuits eaten in a
minute?
All
these questions and more will be answered in the hilarious next instalment of
this brilliant new series from Candy Harper.
Have
a Little Faith was
one of my favourite books last year, and one of the funniest I’ve read in a
long time so Keep the Faith had a lot
to live up to. Luckily, I loved it just as much as the first instalment.
I have to admit that Faith
would drive me crazy if I knew her in person. She’d be a riot to have in class;
she’d make everything hilarious, but she really would drive me mad. But she’s a
bloody brilliant protagonist! Faith’s sass, humour, self-importance and endless
harassment of her friends really do remind me of Georgia Nicolson and you
should all know by now how much I love Georgia. Her inability to see Finn’s
blah-ness and Ethan’s complete awesome-ness was rather infuriating though. It was
so obvious! I did love how she gradually realised what she wanted and what she
needed weren’t necessarily the same thing or the same person.
One of my favourite things
about this series is the friendship between Faith and her friends. The fierceness,
loyalty and genuine affection between Faith, Megs, Lily and Angharad that is
hidden underneath the teasing, joking, whacking each over the head and the
hanging the little ones of stairwells is awesome. I really enjoyed it being
such a focus of the novel as contemporary YA usually is overrun with the
romance rather than the friendships; it was refreshing.
Actually, all of the
relationships in the novel were realistic and touching and involving. Especially,
the connection Faith had with her parents. They weren’t ignored or dead or
terrible parents. Both her mum and dad were present throughout the novel and
had full, three-dimensional personalities and I loved them. Having Faith as a
child must have been...challenging, but I loved that I could see similarities
in them. Them, with Faith’s little brother Sam, felt like a proper family. The brother/sister
relationship between Faith and Sam was hilarious; her incessant practical jokes
and teasing was hilarious, though I did feel a tad sorry for the poor boy!
Keep
the Faith is a
wonderful portrayal of friendship, navigating your way around boys and finding
your feet and I can’t wait to read more about Faith, Megs, Lily and Angharad in
the next instalment!
Thanks to NetGalley and S&S
for this!
Sophie
Oh yes girl! I recently read Have a Little Faith and loved every moment of it, instantly one of my favourites of this year, and I have this ARC too, so I'm so excited to get to it. She best up with Ethan or I'm going to find Harper and shoot her down, he's just so damn adorable and sweet and gah! So glad you enjoyed it Sophie! :D
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed this one - brilliant series!
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