Name: Rage: a Love Story
ISBN: 9780375844119

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

First Love, Unsteady

A tense portrait of first love where attraction and need pull in troubling directions.

Come here for

A teenager’s determined, against-advice devotion
The uneasy collision of attraction and need

Expect

An intense look at an abusive relationship
A struggle to find a way toward new light

Book Details

Authors: Julie Anne Peters
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: December 28, 2010
Format: Paperback
Theme: Surviving Sexual Abuse · Abuse & Trauma for Teens
Reading lane: Surviving Sexual Abuse

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Publisher Categories

YA LGBTQ+
Friendship for Teens
Abuse & Trauma for Teens

About This Book

A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship. Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt. Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna’s fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason. But love isn’t al...

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A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship. Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt. Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna’s fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason. But love isn’t always reasonable, right? In the precarious place where attraction and need collide, a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light.