Review: BREAKING NOVA: A Whole Lot of Sadness
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
When I pick up a new adult book, I expect certain things. Near the top of that list is a roller coaster of emotions. Really happy moments, sexy moments,  moments that make me want to cry, and moments that make me want to pull my hair out.  BREAKING NOVA breaks that mold by providing the reader with zero happy moments, a few moments that make you want to cry (the lake scene killed me!) and about a billion moments that made me want to pull my hair out. Oh, and a sexy scene or two.There was too much despair and not enough hope for my liking. Seriously.  There are less than 10 pages of happiness in the whole story.  Things start out bad for our heroine, Nova and then proceed to get worse.  Then she meets Quinton, a guy with a past that is full of even more pain than Nova is dealing with.  It's hard not to feel sympathy for these two. Their situations are heart wrenching. You think maybe they'll fix themselves, fall in love and live happily ever after? NO. At least not in this installment of their story.Maybe the most disturbing part for me was how they deal with their pain. No, not how they deal with it, really. I completely understand that. I guess that it's the fact that I saw such potential for them to better themselves, but they don't want it, you know?  We get 200 pages of characters believing they don't deserve any kind of happiness in their lives and pretty soon I found myself agreeing with them. I know that sounds horrible, but this is what I mean by too much despair and not enough hope. I started to believe the things they tell themselves.  I want to root for characters!This was my first book by Jessica Sorensen and even though I wasn't crazy over this book, I will most definitely read her again.  Please don't mistake my "meh" feelings about BREAKING NOVA to mean that it wasn't well written.  Because it was.  It was just too sad!  I suspect that book 2 will be the start of the "Hey! Let's try to get help for our issues so that we can like ourselves and stop abusing our bodies" act of the story.  You'll have to tell me if it is, because if it is, I'll certainly pick it up.