Review: 3.5 Stars! I loved Kai!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
Whisper to Me is one of my very favorite kinds of stories.... the kind where two characters are head over heels for each other, but believe it's one sided. The kind where they believe their love is unrequited. The kind where they're individually so torn up over the other, but they never say the right things, and they never admit their feelings, thus making an already fragile situation even worse. The kind where love blooms from friendship, and the characters are blindsided by their growing attraction.The angst.The secret longing.The sexual tension.I love it all.Told in alternating first person points of view, we're brought right into the hearts and minds of Kai and Rachel. Kai was perfect. A sexy mix of Native American and Dutch, Kai is a pierced up musician who's trying to find some direction in life. Rachel is a college student, crashing with her lifelong best friends for summer break, Dakota and her brother, Kai. Both stuck in old patterns with their individual coping mechanisms, Rachel uses sex to block out old memories and still fresh pain from. Kai, with his recreational pot use, uses the drug to write music and check out mentally from the pressures he's feeling to do something with his life. In trying to break old habits and come to terms with their past and present struggles, Kai and Rachel find a new way to escape... in each other.The writing in this book was really good... nice and clean, I got everything I needed without a lot of flowers. I love that. I love the pace the author created with this story.... I love a slow build. I love tension to mount, I love anticipation, and longing. I love to feel. And that I did. I love well-developed characters that I can connect with from the very start. I love solid, fluid writing. I got it all. With that said, I did feel like parts dragged on and pulled me out of the story from time to time. I found myself sometimes wishing that things would move a little quicker... or at least pull me back in.  For much of the book, I was heavily invested in this story, in where this could go. I felt everything. This story is sweet and sad, it's angsty, it's got a decent amount of sexy smut, but not over the top. It stays realistic and believable throughout... something for me is a MUST, as a reader. I do think the ending was tied up a little too perfectly. It was abrupt. For a story so drawn out, building so slowly, I found that the ending wrapped up a little too quickly for my taste. But overall, I liked this story a lot. This author knows how to make a reader feel everything. When I was in the story, I was IN it. I'll be keeping an eye out for more from Christina Lee.