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Overall, I really enjoyed Tumbleweeds (paid link). While it is rather long, I feel like it went by too quickly. It’s a novel about love, pain, regret, jealousy, sorrow, loss, anger, and more. Essentially, it’a about everything that makes us human.

To be more specific, it is about three friends; Cathy, John, and Trey, who become extremely close when Cathy moves to their small town of Tersey, Texas (newly orphaned), to live with her grandmother. An accidental death and unforeseen pregnancy, shake up the small town and change the three kids lives forever. The novel continues into their adult lives, showing how their childhood events, mixed with lying, deceit, and misunderstanding, have effected them. You won’t ever be able to guess what happens next.

I loved this novel because it spoke to humanity and everyday emotions and mistakes that we all have. It is extremely different from novels I tend to read, and therefore, it truly was a breath of fresh air. Additionally, Leila did such an amazing job with sentence structure and the flow of her writing. Being as picky with diction as I am, I was very impressed with her work.

At first, you may want to know more thoughts of each character, but not knowing as much is what functions best in this novel. Even the ending was devastatingly realistic. The novel held integrity to the end!