ADDISON BLAKELY CONFESSIONS OF A PK PDF

Sixteen-year-old Addison Blakely has tirelessly played the role of PK preacher’s kid her entire life. But after Wes Keegan revs his. Review by Jill Williamson. Addison Blakely has always done everything to please her overprotective dad—who’s also a pastor. The thing is. Sixteen-year-old Addison Blakely has tireless played the role of PK – preacher’s kid – her entire life. But after Wes Keegan revs his motorcycle into town and into.

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As well as that, I have loved Footloose since I was a kid so the whole PK meets bad boy thing, whilst not very original, holds a place in my heart.

But you know what, despite that, his effort seems validated the interest. Marta was an amazing best friend, and her blunt honesty with Addison was just what the book needed.

Addison Blakely: Confessions of a PK by Betsy St. Amant | Jill Williamson

Amant, in Addison Blakely: She sees the world as black and white, never as gray or colorful. But, as it turns out, there are lots of layers to Wes – and to Addison as well.

I know this is confeszions YA Young Adult novel geared for teens but trust me, this something mom of a teen ate this book up like a box of name brand chocolates. It was pretty easy for me to relate to her and her opinion. We need to know why she had to go back so early all it gave me was a lame family-troubles excuse. Can Addison sort through the heart-racing emotions that grip her closer to z forbidden Wes or will he be her undoing?

It isn’t your life. When motorcycle riding, tattoo-laden Wes Keagen moves into her town, she can’t help but feel her heart pounding against her chest when she looks at x.

I loved that characters here are real, imperfect with profundity. This is a heartfelt book with strong characters and real situations like marriage, vonfessions disorders, purity, peer pressure,transition, love, secrets, dysfunction, and true faith I’m very glad she dropped the completely annoying attitude and is getting help for her problem.

But, no matter how hard Addison tries to forget Wes, she is unable to keep herself from gravitating towards his mysterious charm. And the more her dad ignores her, the more she wants to chase after something she wants. She didn’t addjson she knew everything and she wasn’t afraid to question the way she’d been brought up.

Can Addison keep up with the unfair expectations handed down to confessjons, can she be a good PK? No wonder God had been so quiet.

If I had read this novel at my local Starbucks, I feel somewhat certain that Addison Blakely would have jumped out of the book and started chatting with me right there in the coffee shop. Amant did a great job getting her point across in this story without coming across as preachy. It means preacher’s kid. But I liked that she embraced it fully, not because what people told her she should be. I suddenly realized we were standing together — rather closely — in broad daylight confessionns the corner of my street, where all the neighbors could see.

And we shouldn’t do that. The only thing that shakes her is her attraction to Wes, the newly transplanted bad boy At First Sight: Wes — Okay, at first I was annoyed at Addy for liking Wes.

All in all, Confessions of a PK was a great read. Addison’s life is simple yet complicated, funny and ironic too. All these condessions endings, except one certain one, because someone is going away. A short book title like Echo by Alyson Noel, now that’s short and memorable.

Addison Blakely Confessions of a PK

Marta, a German exchange student, steps in and becomes a close friend to her. Sep 08, April rated it liked it Shelves: Suddenly, I began to like him more, and then more, and then — needless to say, I was completely in love with him by the time I finished the book! Sixteen-year-old Addison Blakely has tireless played the role of PK–preacher’s kid–her entire life. I was a gummi bear through and through She was a great friend to Addison and showed Addison that being a PK doesn’t have to blakeyl your life, and addisln you decide who you want to be in the end.

Don’t expect this novel to be a light-hearted read though. I think he would prefer those who love. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank God literallythe new foreign exchange student Confssions has swooped in to help just when Addison needs it the most.

Confessions of a PK. I definitely recommend you check it out. It was odd when she was talking about it. I did enjoy the segment in which Addison forced herself to really look at her lifestyle, acknowledging that perhaps she has only been going through the motions as a preacher’s kid rather than letting the natural outflowing of her beliefs affect her life. I was not required to write a positive review. Days later, I’m still in awe of the beauty in this story.

Addison Blakely: Confessions of a PK by Betsy St. Amant

Hawthorne By the way, I feel weird calling her Kathy was really nice. She is a contemporary teen that the targeted age can relate to whether parents like me want to admit it or not.

Wes Keegan has Twilight written all over. It’s hard to resist a leather wearing boy with a motorcycle but most parents aren’t up for the scenario.

Addison Blakely: Confessions of a PK

Some of those layers begin to be peeled back when Addison is unwittingly put in charge of the fun-raiser attached to this year’s high school talent show, putting her in a conflicting path with Claire, and in the path of friendship with exchange student Marta who encourages Addison to be more of herself and not just the local PK.

I kept wondering when the religious aspect of the book would kick in and it seemed too jammed into the last quarter of the book.

She doesn’t know addiosn to believe in, if everything is only black or white, and what are the intentions of the hot new ‘bad boy’ in town, Wes Keegan. There were only a few things that would be on my “wish list” for this book.