Mercury is a heartbreaking tale of a teen girl who desires a permanent family above all else. Unfortunately, she picks a family that though looks like everything she desires from the outside, is actually filled with lonely people barely functioning.
Marley is firmly entrenched in the family before she realizes she isn't actually a part of it. That doesn't keep her from trying. She latches onto the oldest son of a townie family that happen to own the local roofing company. That crush quickly fizzles and it's to the next brother she turns her attention. An unplanned pregnancy seems to seal the fate of them all.
A slow burn character study that picks up in the last quarter of the book left me with two characters that I either loved or could relate to - Marley and Shay Baby. This book had me actually hoping that the fictional character Shay Baby got out and found his way to happiness.
Marley is firmly entrenched in the family before she realizes she isn't actually a part of it. That doesn't keep her from trying. She latches onto the oldest son of a townie family that happen to own the local roofing company. That crush quickly fizzles and it's to the next brother she turns her attention. An unplanned pregnancy seems to seal the fate of them all.
A slow burn character study that picks up in the last quarter of the book left me with two characters that I either loved or could relate to - Marley and Shay Baby. This book had me actually hoping that the fictional character Shay Baby got out and found his way to happiness.