Review: Very Good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
I am giving this book 4 smooches because I can completely respect how hard it is to live with someone in your life who battles addiction, and then to put what is in your heart and head into words, on paper, for the world to see, can not be an easy thing to do. I completely respect, sympathize and empathize with this and the battle as a loved one of an addict, and for that alone I give it the 4 smooches.As far as the story goes, Van is a rock star in a very popular band. Stella Jo is a girl who tried to live up to everyone’s standards so she didn’t fail them or herself, and she struggles with this and the fact that she wants and needs to live her life as she sees fit, not to the standards of everyone else. They meet at the Second Chance Rehab. A Celebrity rehab that Stella works for and Van is admitted too … its love and hate at first sight. Stella cant seem to get him off her mind or out of her heart, as he seems to be embedding himself into. Van hates that she can see right through him. And so it begins and they end up being what each other needs, wants and cant live without. They help and heal each other in ways, nothing and no one else could.In the beginning, the story dragged for me a little but it began to pick up eventually. It was heavy material that I thought was handled well. The grammar and spelling were good and the epilogue was awesome. It was my favorite part of the book.I don’t really know how to say this, but the book itself, the story, didn’t really grab me. I didn’t think it was bad at all, it just didn’t grab me like other books do. The way the author handled the addiction is what impressed me. It’s a hard thing to write about in its most honest form, and it truly impressed me that the author handled it so wellTraci