Review: 4 1/2 stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
GAH! I love Sebastian!!! (Ahem. Adopts much more professional approach.) AAAAAH! There. Much better.Sara Alva has a definite winner in this book about two young men who have endured great hardships to get where they are today. Foster care.First is Alejandro, or Alex as he prefers. His mother has taken up with a deadbeat. His sister, who was kicked out, sells herself to support her daughter. She has a man just like dear old deadbeat. When Alex steals from his mother’s man, said man teaches Alex a lesson he likely won’t forget. When a teacher finds out the results of that lesson, she initiates a cascade effect that has Alex taken from his home and placed in group care.Here he meets Sebastian, who is referred to throughout the book as a ‘retard’ by his foster brethren. There is more to the young man than meets the eye. A past that he keeps buried because it hurts so much. A life he has never been able to live.A tragedy threatens their new family, causing Alex to do something he’s not really prepared for. In order to keep Sebastian with him he will have to become a man.When all is said and done, can Alex save both him and Sebastian? Or will the Silence compromise them all?That’s the good. My only problem with the book? We never get to find what happens to his foster family. There were a few things I wanted to know about them, especially the lovely women who took Sebastian and Alex in before the incident.And what happened there? Did we find out who caused it? I admit I’d like to know these things.