With both being 'haunted' by the ghosts of Lucca and Gabe, the story has a great start.

The story alternates what would be considered journal entries of Brooklyn's and Nico's thoughts. One year later Gabe, the driver of the car and a friend to both Brooklyn and Nico dies of a drug overdose. Once when Lucca, Brooklyn's love and Nico's brother dies on New Year's. So after flipping through the book, I was glad to see that it wasn't pages upon pages filled with tiny little test!Ĭhasing Brooklyn is the story of two teens that are struck by tragedy twice. I know I read a lot of 400 page books, but after finishing a 325 page read I was wanting something light. At first when I saw how many pages were in it, I was a little daunted. This book isn't like your normal YA books. I actually haven't read any of Lisa's books but I had heard that she writes in what I believe is called prose.

I have read a few reviews of this book, and even before that I had it in my TBR pile. Together they discover a mutual desire to live again, as they also discover a growing desire for each other. Convinced it's Lucca, Nico reaches out to help Brooklyn as best he can. But soon he begins hearing voices in his sleep, seeing notes on his window, and getting general signs requesting him to do one thing: Save Brooklyn. So when he learns of Gabe's death, he's not too fazed by it. Nico, Lucca's brother, has learned to cope by shutting everyone out. She's desperate to find a way to stop the nightmares, but she feels like she has no one to turn to. She knows it's Gabe chasing after her, but she doesn't know why. Now her dreams are being haunted by a ghost, gray and sinister. Tragedy striking yet again.īrooklyn, Lucca's girlfriend, has learned to wear a mask of strength and indifference after losing the boy she loved. It's exactly one year later, and Gabe has just died of a drug overdose. When Lucca died, no one took it harder than his best friend, Gabe.

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