VBT# Find Me In Manhattan - Shealy James

 

Review: Find Me in Manhattan - Shealy James - 2015

Ever since Sarah was younger she has dreamed of leaving her family farm and heading to Colombia and Manhattan and becoming a Pyschologist. When things on her family's farm aren't looking great, she leaves her on/off again boyfriend Billy and heads back home and defers on graduate school. Now the farm has caught up and she has the chance to head off to Columbia. She finds an apartment in Graduates housing and a great roommate and a cute next door neighbour Jameson who happens to be on the same graduate programme at her and doing his interning at the VA hospital in which Sarah has gotten a spot. The pair start dating and all seems to be going well, that is until he strikes her and she lets the first one go but when it happens again, she dumps him - hoping he will get the message to leave her alone. The thing is though that Jameson doesn't want to let Sarah go and starts going all full-on stalker mode on her and his violent streak starts to escalate. Meanwhile it seems Sarah has also captured the attention of ex-soldier Michael - he is one of her study participants . He is in love with Sarah and wants to protect her but he's not good at relationships at all and keeps pushing Sarah away. This is driving her crazy as she has an ex who won't stay away and the guy she does like can't help but get away fast enough from her. Find Me in Manhattan is not just your usual college fiction New Adult but also a novel where Sarah and Michael actually are shown and proven to grow and that sometimes in order to grow and move on with life, you have to move someone to discover and find yourself and for Sarah and Michael - that somewhere and new place is Manhattan.

 If you love Edgy NA and don't mind Domestic Abuse, then check out Shealy James's novel "Find me in Manhattan".