Hold Still is LaCour's debut novel. It is a beautiful and sad look into teen suicide and what it does to those left behind, in this instance a best friend, who's world crumbles around her.
This book is a gem and quite different from most books you read concerning suicide. It is filled with adolescent turmoil, love, pain and the challenges with moving on.
It centers around photography and the emotional response that it can provoke , whether being taken of being viewed.
Great characters. A story that will want others to read.
Grade: A
Synopsis (B&N)
An arresting story about starting over after a friend's suicide, froma breakthrough new voice in YA fiction
dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can't.
Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend's suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didn't die with Ingrid. And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingrid's descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingrid—and Caitlin herself
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