Bøger af Mercedes Helnwein

El primer amor tiene la peor punteríaGracie Welles está atrapada en un internado de tercera en los pantanos de Florida. Por si fuera poco, se siente fuera de lugar y su método de supervivencia es mantener una estricta soledad autoimpuesta. Un día, por pura casualidad, evita que golpeen al chico nuevo de su clase, Wade Scholfield, y sin preverlo sus reglas de asilamiento comienzan a desmoronarse.Gracias a Wade, Gracie descubre una nueva manera de existir. Las reglas de la escuela son opcionales, la vida es extrañamente perfecta y las conversaciones sobre agujeros de gusano pueden terminar en besos que desafían cualquier pensamiento lógico. Entonces, si todo parece perfecto a su lado, ¿por qué Gracie le rompe el corazón a Wade en un millón de diminutos pedazos?Con humor ácido y escritura amena, esta es una historia sobre las peores partes de enamorarse por primera vez.

Acidly funny and compulsively readable, Mercedes Helnwein's debut novel Slingshot is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, friendship, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.Grace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, when she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being beaten up. With a single aim of a slingshot, the monotonous mathematics of her life are obliterated forever...because now there is a boy in it that she never asked for. Wade Scholfield.With Wade, Grace discovers a new way to exist. School rules are optional, life is bizarrely perfect, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought.So why does Grace crush Wade's heart into a million tiny pieces? And what are her options when she finally realizes that 1. The universe doesn't revolve around her, and 2. Wade has been hiding a dark secret? Is Grace the only person unhinged enough to save him?Eleanor and Park meets Ladybird in this outstanding debut novel.