Amy McNamara creates a character in Wren that I found really empathetic and real. Wren–who was known as Mamie back at home, but who goes by her father’s nickname for her for most of this book–cuts herself off from everyone in her life: her best friend, Meredith her boyfriend Patrick’s family she even actively avoids her kind of meddlesome mother (her parents are divorced). Wren basically shuts down, puts all of her big plans for college on hold, and runs off to her father’s house in rural Maine to decompress, recharge, and figure out what to do with herself now that she’s been touched so closely by death. I loved it, and will be looking forward to more from Amy McNamara for sure.įirst and foremost, LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP is about a young girl, Wren, whose life has been turned on its head following the car accident that killed her high school boyfriend but left her alive to come to grips with the aftermath. It’s a quiet, intense, emotional book about grieving and the changes death makes in the lives of the people who lived, and it’s a sweet love story about the things that can bring a grieving person back from their inconsolable sadness. This book is all of those things: the writing is lovely, the tone is kind of dark, and there’s lots of deep feels going on. LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP, Amy McNamara‘s debut, is one of those books whose title is basically perfect. When the chemistry between them threatens to pull Wren from her hard-won isolation, Wren has to choose: risk opening her broken heart to the world again, or join the ghosts who haunt her.
Dealing with his own troubles, Cal’s hiding out too. Instead of heading off to college as planned, Wren retreats to her father’s studio in the far-north woods of Maine. Though she lived through the accident that killed her boyfriend Patrick, the girl she used to be didn’t survive. Summary: Since the night of the crash, Wren Wells has been running away.
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