Review: Nice enough read but for me a bit disappointing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2012
Dizzy was an enjoyable enough read, but it was lacking that special something that all the other books I have read by Nyrae Dawn have that make me go wow, brilliant YA.  And I know what that special something was, special characters.  For me, Dizzy was just a typical YA read, likable enough characters, nice smile humour, characters who are able to grow and a lesson to be learned.  But there was no stand out character or event that made me think `this is special'.  Dizzy is told from the alternating POV of Dylan and Ziah, which is something I ususally love, but in this case I probably could have done without Ziah's.Dylan was a good ya character, someone who could undergo great change due to his `party boy' ways.  He had humour, he had his own moral code, he had a great relationship with his brother, but my issue with him was that he read like all Nyrae's other male characters put together.  He did not seem to be his own character, and at time when he was internalizing I thought  wow this could have come straight from What a boy wants, or this could have come straight from Charade".  Maybe if I had not read, and loved, those books he would have been great.  But for me he was a pale imitation.Ziah on the other hand I found a strange character.  She was meant to be super close to her sister but did not even know she had a boyfriend to get engaged too.  She was meant to have issues with the engagement, but these where stupid flimsy reasons at best and for someone so close to their sister they made no sense to me.  In addition to this it annoyed me how long she took to speak with people about her horrid boyfriend experience.  Once Ziah did, and once she stopped having so many issues with the wedding she was fine, but she was just a character, but nothing special.As for the connection between Dylan and Ziah, I thought this was nicely written and well developed.  I loved that there was no instant love, and that they grew to be friends, and then grew to be more. I liked the way they helped each other, listened and didn't try to force any change. The best parts of the book are the scenes where both Dylan and Ziah are in them, they have good banter, and sweet connections.  If only more of the book was like that.Overall I was left with the feeling that for the first time I had just read a couple of Nyrae Dawn's books put together, but not in a good way.  Maybe for the first time it was one of her YA's book where you need to be a YA to enjoy it.  For a YA book (with heavy swearing) it is still pretty good, but it left me disappointed.Will I read it again? NoWould I recommend it? Yes, but not to mature aged readers who like YA.