Binding 13
Chloe Walsh's Binding 13 opens the Boys of Tommen series with a love story that hits somewhere tender and doesn't let go. It's the kind of book that leaves you staring at the ceiling long after you've turned the last page. Johnny Kavanagh looks, from the outside, like someone who has it all sorted. A natural on the rugby pitch, tipped for big things, surrounded by the noise and shine of Tommen College's social world. Then Shannon Lynch walks in, mid-term, quietly hoping to disappear into the background. She's carrying more than a new school bag, and Johnny notices her in a way that catches him completely off guard. Shannon's past has been brutal. Arriving at a prestigious school already bruised, literally and figuratively, she's just hoping to keep her head down. What she doesn't plan for is Johnny, or the pull between them that neither can quite ignore. Their friendship forms slowly, with real friction and fragility, and Walsh does something rather clever with it: she makes you feel every stage. Readers have described this series as all-consuming, and it's not hard to see why. Walsh writes first love with an honesty that's genuinely affecting, mixing humour and heartbreak in a ratio that keeps you emotionally off-balance throughout. Tears, tension and the occasional laugh out loud moment all make an appearance. If you're after a romance with proper weight to it, characters you'll want to protect fiercely, and a story that lingers well after it ends, Binding 13 is well worth your time. The rest of the series, including Keeping 13, Saving 6 and Redeeming 6, awaits once you surface.
- Author: Chloe Walsh
- Publisher: Piatkus Books
- Genre: Family & Relationships
- ISBN: 978-0349439259
- Pages: 816 pages