A Whole New Crowd

By: Tijan

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's Summary

He told me to go away.

I did. I followed his instructions. I left with the new family. They were from the right side of the tracks, and I tried to become one of them. I really did, but I failed. When someone died, someone that I loved, I couldn’t keep pretending everything was fine. It wasn’t. This privileged world he gave me wasn’t privileged. There were problems. He just never told me that he created them, that he had sent me into a world he set up for me.

It was all a lie, but it was lie that I was going to expose. Or I would die trying.

©2014 Tijan Meyer (P)2017 Novel Audio Inc.

Loved it!

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Tijan is one of t favorite authors, this book did not disappoint! It had me laughing out loud and crying, it has it all even twists you won’t see coming. I highly recommend this to anyone. The narrator was WONDERFUL!

This is an aggressively stupid book

The characters are unbelievable. Teenagers who act like they’re in their 40s. It jerks around between things like: I’m gonna learn how to kill people with a knife! I’m gonna make swim team!

It is excruciatingly melodramatic and completely inconsistent: “I know how to use a gun, I’m going to use the gun, I’m going to kill him, I’ve got the gun, I’m squeezing the trigger, this is my destiny, here I go, going to kill him ....” and then, nothing happens.

I really stopped listening about halfway through I just had it as background kind of the way you are watching a dramatic movie that is so lame you stay because it’s unintentionally funny.

At the very end, the heroine, who somehow is an Olympic caliber swimmer on top of being a hard-core thief, on top of everything else, somehow switches to being an expert diver to get into college. WTF? And these ridiculous inconsistencies occur throughout the book.

Save yourself! Do not buy this book!

Past & Present Collision

What happens when you get a new start in life, but your past wants to keep colliding with the present? Tijan is amazing at showing how her strong characters should start the past back up or if it's best to move on to a new present! Read/Listen to this because I wasn't sure how this one was going to work and it's a collision of emotions, full of action, and if you're already a fan, you'd know who wrote it, but in a great way! I didn't see most of what happens coming! This is a must read/listen!!

Outstanding

I wasn’t so sure about reading a book with a girl playing with a knife. Because it was Tijan, I gave it a chance, along with the audible version. It is an outstanding story. The narration is exceptional but so totally Tijan. I don’t want to tell to much. Don’t want to spoil it for readers. The story is well developed, has interesting characters and the ending is almost perfection. be sure and get the audible version. It is so very good.

such a twat

it was a good story with an interesting plot and for the first half the heroine was cool. But halfway thru the book she turns into this whining selfish hateful ungrateful twat. Me made me want to hit some sense upside her head.
*mild spoilers*
She doesn't listen when people tell her to leave a situation alone says something off hand that leads to the death of a loved one then proceeds to blame everyone but herself and then continuously ignores and puts in danger those she claims to care for.
No. just no. I usually love Tijan's character development but I feel like this one actually devolved into a selfish twit.
All this to say I liked the story but hated the heroine. Kinda wanted someone to stab her. Maybe that was to harsh, but at least she needed one good bit*h slap

Drama and love, mingled together in the best way!

What a chaotic and suspenseful ride this book was!!!! A lot of twists and turns, but in the end it all smoothed out!
Suzanne did an awesome job telling this Tijan story!

Family or Foe

Family can be who you choose it to be. But sometimes people aren’t who we think they are. This story definitely has a twist you don’t see coming. The narrator did a good job.

Not for me

I listened to the audiobook of this story. I have to say, I have loved every book that Tijan has written until this one and I will keep reading all of her books. This book felt excruciatingly long, it took forever to finally wrap things up. I really disliked Taryn, her personality, her attitude, how she so quickly turned against people in her life, and then we have Trey who at first I thought was going to be a strong character but ended up being just a weak side kick. Sadly I have to say that I did not like the narrator at all either. Not everyone is going to like the same things, it doesn’t mean many don’t love this story and many will love this story. Like I stated at the beginning, I have loved everything she has written in the past and I’m sure I will love many she will write in the future.

Really good

I’ve read several Tijan books now and this might be my favorite. Did not see that ending coming

Love this book

I have read this book several times but this is the first time I have listened to it. Suzanne did an amazing job voicing this book!