Review: Great Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
Right from the beginning of this story I felt my self being drawn in. I didn't really get what was going on in the beginning but it left me with so many question that I knew I wanted to find the answers for. This story was just so intriguing I wanted to understand how a character could feel that she was the reason for peoples deaths and why her father shot a boy, and even more why the police officers called her Callidora.I actually loved that since the chapters were in alternating different years Brenda was able to tell 3 different stories. The forbidden romance of Vee and Luke, Sophie growing up meeting Donny and Damien, Sophie after her father is arrested while she lives with her grandparents.Of all three of the stories being told I felt myself enjoying Vee and Luke's the most. I think the reasons they weren't supposed to be together were so inherently based on the setting of this story. If they were in say New York I don't think it would have mattered much but it was so great to see that the setting of the story had such a major impact on the novel. Though the characters religion and nationalities did as well but I think that is a given any where you were to set the story but reading the more dramatic extent was just so great.I highly recommend this story because it is just so refreshing to read these incredibly developed characters and Brenda really let's you see inside their minds and understand them and their actions. Even if you don't like what they do they don't do it without purpose.~Received for free for Review~