Review: I heart Benjamin
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
I kind of sort of truly adore the way Anna wrote this book in a diary type of way.  Aside from the fact that I can actually hear Anna’s British accent throughout the story (and it’s completely adorable), we’re updated by date or time, sometimes both, as to how much time has passed between scenes....Example:14th SeptemberDear Diary.  Ugh!  That’s rubbish and sounds like something a thirteen year old would write.Dear Journal?  Nope, that’s crap, too.Oh, who gives a shit what it is called?  It’s not even a posh leather-bound volume.  It’s a spiral pad.  A jotter.I, Lilah McCannon, aged twenty-five, have just run away from home.  I am trying not to think about it too much.  Every time I do, I start to hyperventilate with that hitched breathing that precedes a full-scale panic attack....To say I love her style of writing is an understatement.  Train of thought writing is not an easy task, despite what people might think.  You’ve either got it, or you don’t.  You cannot force it.  Anna has it.  And I love it.Watching Lilah leave to go “grow up” for lack of a better phrase, just made my heart so happy. This chick lays it all out – she drinks a lot (check), she’s sarcastic (check) and makes lists to live by that she of course, does NOT live by (check)....I have written some very strict University rules that I plan to stick to:1. No Alcohol2. No cigarettes3. No Boys4. No Going Home...Right, Lilah.  Right. *winks*And Ben.  Don’t get me started on Ben....“Besides,” he says with a twinkle of blues.  ” When I do have sex with you, I’d rather you were a little more sober.”...I might have a thing for him.  JS.But one of my very favorite lines (among others) from this book had to be Anna’s. . ....“You have no idea of the things you do to me. That night, after Fez, I would have happily given you every bit of myself.”I link my fingers between the buttons on his shirt.He leans back in. “Then why didn’t you?”“Because I don’t want you to be the other guy.”...See what I’m saying?Other things I simply love about this story:Lilah calls herself a dick. Several times.The way she joins a gym, finds her own groove and then “breaks up” with said gym.The relationship that morphs between Lilah & her brother.The subtle things that Lilah learns, other than just things that have to do with her education, as she makes her way through “Uni”.And the ending – I cannot with this ending.  I was a bawling, anxious mess at the end of this one.  Anna is lucky she wrote more for me to love, including  a BENJAMIN POV  Novella (that’s out TODAY) that I’m grabbing ASAP.  I’m pretty sure this is a pre-quel type story and I cannot wait to gobble it up.