Stop the World

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Sherry Mayes

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Imogen Blue Publishing

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YA Contemporary

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14+

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December 09, 2015

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978-1519648877

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Set in the dusty desert town of Cedarville, North California, beauty queen, Jody Angel Taylor believes her life is all mapped out: glamorous, clever and popular, and due to marry her handsome boyfriend, she has it all. Until one night she has a devastating car crash, ending up paralyzed - and her perfect world collapses. Committing media suicide and publicly blamed for her own accident, everything around her falls apart. She becomes a lonely recluse, feeling she’s lost everything including her legs - her boyfriend to her best friend, her father to an affair, her mother to depression - but above all she fears losing her mind. What she doesn’t know is that someone across the globe is about to throw her a lifeline. Can she find the courage to take it? Determined to love again and clear her name, she embarks on a new adventure that will transform her life beyond all expectations

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This is a well-written, feel good story with just the right ingredients to keep you in suspense, make you cry from the good and bad, and also make you laugh. If you liked John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”, you’ll love Sherry Mayes’ “Stop the world.” This novel is about triumph and disaster, and as in Rudyard Kipling’s “If,” treats those two impostors the same. The story is seen through the eyes of main character and Beauty Queen, Jody Angel Taylor. Although Jody is/was a beauty queen, she is the prototype flawed and beautifully crafted protagonist.

I love the structure and pacing of “Stop the world”. We meet Jody at her lowest point, a broken girl who has to find some semblance of a life in the midst of chaos and misfortune. She must not only deal with her own physical, mental, and emotional demons, but somehow factor in her mother’s heartache as well. And deal with them she does. My favorite character is Annie aka Dr. Sledgehammer. She brings to mind Carla from the back-in-the-day sitcom “Cheers.” In short, “Stop the World” is unpredictable, inspiring, and a testament to the human spirit.