Review: Brilliantly written, but too depressing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2013
Nova and Quinton have both suffered major losses, both are completely shattered and find it nearly impossible to continue with life. Nova is sad all the time and has turned obsessive compulsive. She tries to stay in control of things by counting -- tiles, rocks, picture frames on a wall -- to keep the memories in her head at bay. Quinton went from being a good boy with a future ahead of himself to drug addict with no job and no desire have a pulse. That is until they meet each other and the shattered pieces of each other's hearts begin to fit together. But can either of them handle putting their broken hearts into the other's hand? Quinton doesn't feel like he deserves to be happy or have any kind of future, and Nova doesn't think she can move on without first understanding why she lost the one person she thought she would love forever.Breaking Nova was so freaking depressing it almost broke me. I came very close to DNF'ing this one. It wasn't heart wrenching in the way that you describe a book that makes you laugh after a good cry either. It was downright dismal. I don't know if it's because I've read too many angst-ridden contemporary romances lately or what, but my compassion well has dried up. Too many broken people and not enough band-aids in my first aid kit, I suppose. Even in the beginning of the book when Nova describes Landon, the love of her life, and how bleak he was all the time I thought, "What is so attractive about a guy like that?" I would have dumped his ass pronto and moved onto someone that was happy to be alive, at least most of the time.After the halfway mark of this book I started to like it a bit more. I don't know if it's because I had gotten to know the characters more by that time and was interested to see how it all played out, or if I really just wanted to know what was on that gosh darn video clip, but it was definitely more interesting to see Nova and Quinton interacting and getting to know each other, slowly spilling their deep, dark secrets.I really dislike giving negative ratings. It makes me sad to do it, but I have to be honest. This is in no way an attack on the author, because I think she's a brilliant writer. The actual writing, the character arcs and the pacing were fabulous, it's just the nature of the story that I didn't enjoy. That doesn't mean that others won't, in fact I'm pretty sure there are already some great reviews out there. It simply wasn't for me. But I will definitely check out other titles by this author.