Review: An entertaining tale, but almost TOO much drama to be believable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
I’m going to start out with the posative; there was certainly a lot of posative. I loved the way that this story unfurled. We are presently in the elevator, but flash back to past moments in time as we see all that happened leading up to this moment. Best friends; torn apart in tragedy, loss, and guilt. I loved the painted picture of the main characters, they seemed to come alive. The momentum was fantastic as well, I felt compelled to keep reading.The downfall… Oh is is so small, but I have to mention it. I felt like the author tried to do too much. There was so much complexity and diversity in the characters stories that they became less believable. The dad in Afganistan, the drugged out mom, the best friends dating, and well, I wont give away the rest, but it became almost cliche and lost a little of the edge for me. The other little hitch is that the book was pitched as being written in prose. Though the stanza’s and formatting is prose, I didn’t feel the same poetic pull as some of the other books I’ve read lately in that style. It didn’t have those stand alone verses that I wanted to post on my FB wall and share with my friends. I enjoyed it alot more when I forgot it was supposed to be written in prose and just enjoyed the story.Other than that, it was great. I really enjoyed the read. I adore Elana Johnson and I am glad to see her continuing to write and share her stories with all of us.