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Can T Look Away, By Donna Conner

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The novel, Can't Look Away, by Donna Conner is a book about a successful Youtuber that moved to Texas. She moves there because she blames herself for her sister's death. Torrey blames herself because they got in a fight so her sister stormed off to cross the street and then got hit by a drunk driver. The book starts off with a beauty vlogger, named Torrey Gray who has thousands of people watching her vlogs on Youtube. She loves what she does, and she loves connecting to people and hearing what they have to say about her vlogs. However, when Torrey’s sister is killed by a drunk driver, all those nice comments people used to have turned into nasty hate comments where people blamed her for her sister’s death. Now Torrey started to believe it too, even though it’s not true. Then because of everything that is happening Torrey’s family decides to move to Texas for a fresh start and to be closer with their relatives. …show more content…

The book is on past and present day. This is important to know because in the past she refers to her old life and her sister and in the present talks about how she tries to cope with so many big changes in her life. Torrey spends a lot of her time at Luis’s house because she only talks to him about her life so if she is upset, angry, happy, etc. she will only ever tell him because she doesn’t feel comfortable talking about personal stuff with anyone. Torrey feels this way because she thinks that everyone is fake so she doesn't really trust anyone but her best friend soon to be boyfriend

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