Fade Into You by Catriona Child

Thank you @CatrionaChild @LuathPress @KellyALacey @lovebookstours for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Fade into you wow what a great read took me right back to my youth with the so-called life that I loved to watch and the music in the 90s. Fade into You is about Alex growing up and being in love with your childhood sweetheart and then growing apart. There are no chapters just dates of events that happened in Alex's life which liked the layout a lot. I loved Alex as a character and she went through such a lot to support Gavin who was her childhood sweetheart. I also liked Banny's character who's Gavin's twin who seemed to have a crush on her. I did hope this relationship between Alex and Banny would develop. The ending was sad and I felt for Alex it was not the ending I thought it would be but I am glad it ended like that I think it needed to. The story was heartwarming and was written well. Catriona Child will be on my favourite author list and will be looking out for more of her books in the future. 5 stars absolutely banging read. Blurb It’s 1994, Kurt Cobain has just died, and teenager Alex is spending the summer working in her Aunt’s Bed and Breakfast in rural Argyll. The village pace of life is slow compared to home in Edinburgh and Alex resigns herself to a quiet summer spent serving breakfasts and making beds. Everything changes however once she meets the twin brothers who live next door. Spanning the next fifteen years of Alex’s life, Fade Into You is a love letter to growing up in Scotland in the 90s and 2000s. Set against a backdrop of T in the Park and the war in Iraq, soundtracked by Britpop and Grunge mixtapes, with the sweet taste of tablet, it is a novel about growing up and growing apart. It explores the intensity of childhood friendships, how they change as we get older but how they never really leave us.