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Hello! Please welcome Jolene Perry, author of Night Sky! She’s stopping by today to share a guest post as part of the Night Sky Blog Tour by Tribute Books.
After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honestybecome addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her.
As he spends time with Sky and learns about her village, her totems, and her friends with drums – she’s way more than distraction. Jameson’s falling for her fast.
But Sky’s need for honesty somehow doesn’t extend to her life story – and Jameson just may need more than his new girl to keep him distracted from the disaster of his senior year.
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HONESTY
I wanted to contrast Sky and Sarah in as many ways as possible. One of the easiest is that Jameson was never fully honest with Sarah, and Sky forces it out of him on the night he gives her a ride home – which is also the night they meet.
With Sarah, Jameson always held back. It’s hard when you’ve established this friendship with someone, and in his mind, he still got to be around her, even if it wasn’t in the way he wanted. Then when she’s with someone else, Jameson still loses the closeness of their friendship through his non-action. I also love that even after he started the whole “brutal honesty” thing with Sky, he still couldn’t be straight with Sarah, because their relationship had been built on something else.
What I didn’t realize until I’d finished the book was that most of the honesty issues, were with-holding information – and in that way the honesty issue was the same. Jameson withheld his feelings for Sarah, giving her the freedom to be with whomever she chose. And she chose someone else.
I don’t want to give away too much of the plot, but Sky withholds information from Jameson that completely throws him. Jameson had started to really love the honesty he had with Sky – even when it made him uncomfortable, because what they felt for each other was out in the open . . . or so he thought.
Then, when Jameson finally tells Sarah how he feels or used to feel for her – that creates another world of issues.
I also love the places where the honesty of any of the characters creates a disaster versus the places where their honesty prevents disasters. It was fun to make the idea of honesty almost another character in the book.
Thanks SO much for inviting me here today! ~ Jolene
Author Bio:
Jolene grew up in Wasilla, Alaska. She graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in political science and French, which she used to teach math to middle schoolers.
After living in Washington, Utah and Las Vegas, she now resides in Alaska with her husband, and two children. Aside from writing, Jolene sews, plays the guitar, sings when forced, and spends as much time outside as possible.
She is also the author of The Next Door Boys and the upcoming Knee Deep.
Author Links: Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads | Night Sky’s Website
Many thanks to Jolene for stopping by to discuss how honesty is a theme — almost like another character — in Night Sky!
Jen, thanks a million for hosting Jolene today. I really like how she said honesty almost became like another character in her book. Love it!
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Interesting! Honesty can definite be a good and bad thing! I think holding back feelings for so long can ruin a friendship and stop a possible future relationship but then he probably thought if he was honest and she turned him down that would have ruined their friendship as well. It’s a catch 22. Sad that he thought he had an honest relationship with Sky but then she lied too. Sometimes you can’t be open with everything. Very confusing to ponder.
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