Kick Ass Girls of Fire & Ice by Christina Hoag

There is so much potential for discussion here, it would be a great book to be shared and talked about between parents and teenagers, in youth groups etc. This is technically a young adult novel, but it should appeal to a much wider audience. What made Girl on the Brink stand out from the crowd for me personally was the age of the main character. I have listened to numerous novels with a domestic abuse theme. Her parents have recently separated and Chloe’s Mum is not coping well. He actually listens to Chloe when she needs to talk about her difficult time at home. Unlike other boys Chloe has come across, Kieran doesn’t just want sex, he is very attentive and fun to be with. Initially, Kieran seems perfect boyfriend material. My original Girl on the Brink audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.ġ7-year-old Chloe is about to start her last year at high school when she meets charming Kieran. SheĪ regular speaker at writing conferences and groups, bookstores and libraries, she volunteers as a trained domestic violence support group facilitator and is a public speaker about DV. She lives in Los Angeles where she has taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison and to at-risk teen girls in South and East Los Angeles. She has had numerous short stories, creative nonfiction essays and poems published in literary journals including Shooter (UK), San Antonio Review, Round Table Literary Journal, Santa Barbara Literary Journal and Lunch Ticket, and won Honorable Mentions for essay and short story in the International Human Rights Arts Festival’s Literary Justice 2020 contest and for essay and novel excerpt in the Soul-Making Keats Writing Competition 2020.įluent in Spanish and French, Christina grew up as an expat around the world. She also writes nonfiction, co-authoring Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence (Turner Publishing, 2014), a groundbreaking book on violence intervention used in several universities.

Her YA thriller 'Girl on the Brink' was named Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2016 YA. Her debut novel 'Skin of Tattoos,' a noir crime novel, was a finalist for the 2017 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Suspense.

Now she writes about such characters in her fiction. She's interviewed gang members, bank robbers, gunmen, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents, some of whom fall into the previous categories. Christina Hoag was a former journalist for the Miami Herald and the Associated Press who's had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas and phone tapped in Venezuela, suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, an d posed as a nun to get inside a Caracas jail.

Kick Ass Girls of Fire & Ice by Christina Hoag