A review by energyrae
I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall
5.0
Jess Cooper is a girl who is recovering from a horrific car crash in which she loses her mother. She also is considered disabled because of the damage she sustained not just from the initial crash but the fire that followed.
Now, rather than living in a foster home, she goes to live with her father whom she hasn't seen since she's a young girl. Thinking she's going to live in Canada, the plane takes her to an extremely remote location where there are no neighbors. Her father lives off the land and so Jess must learn to survive that way too, except she's so mad at her father for abandoning her, she is pushing back and not really paying attention.
Which she sorely wishes she had when the sketchy men her father was dealing with shoot him and burn down the hand-built cabin they live in. Now she must learn to live in the harsh climate if she wants to survive. Having only her father's dog as a companion, things are sure to be hard.
This was a great story, it reminded me a bit of My Side of the Mountain except Jess has the worst luck, nothing goes right. The author did a great job portraying what life would be like and wrote great characters, it's a very good storyline. Loved this book.
Now, rather than living in a foster home, she goes to live with her father whom she hasn't seen since she's a young girl. Thinking she's going to live in Canada, the plane takes her to an extremely remote location where there are no neighbors. Her father lives off the land and so Jess must learn to survive that way too, except she's so mad at her father for abandoning her, she is pushing back and not really paying attention.
Which she sorely wishes she had when the sketchy men her father was dealing with shoot him and burn down the hand-built cabin they live in. Now she must learn to live in the harsh climate if she wants to survive. Having only her father's dog as a companion, things are sure to be hard.
This was a great story, it reminded me a bit of My Side of the Mountain except Jess has the worst luck, nothing goes right. The author did a great job portraying what life would be like and wrote great characters, it's a very good storyline. Loved this book.