Review: Great sotry, great characters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
I really loved this book.  It involves  some very heavy and emotional topics, but the characters are strong and resilient and beautifully written.This book did have one of my big pet peeves, which is when a non American writes a book that takes place in America.  Miss Haken does a pretty good with the slang and expressions, but it is still very obvious when reading Blaine's POV that he is written by someone who is British.  I was able to overlook it, because I loved the story and characters so much, but I like to get totally lost in my books and it is hard to do that when I am reading him with a British accent in my head.  It would be like watching a show that takes place in America, but all the actors have British accents.  It takes away for the realism. I wish authors would either have their stories take place in the area they are from, or have an American beta reader (I would gladly volunteer for the job) :)I still give this book five stars though.  It has been a while since I have read a book that really made me feel and care about the characters.  I have been searching for that, and read a lot of books that have fallen short.  This story was just what I was looking for, even with the minor annoyance.