Review: READ IT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2014
Holy hot dang. There was just something about this book that grabbed me and didn't let go. And I didn't want to be let go, ever. Was it the amazing characters, was it their own story, was it their connection, was it the words that jumped of the pages, was it the emotions that coursed through you? For me, it was all of the above and then some.What took me so long to grab this book is beyond me. I must not have read the synopsis then, because when I read it before starting this adventure it was the one thing that caught me.Before You Break really hit something in my heart, maybe because the story was a little close to home or because I felt every god dang emotion in this book. I was one of the characters; I wasn't just a reader. Quinn's story is of huge importance and I would be lying if I said anything else. I was intrigued about Ella's story, but mainly I wanted to know everything about Quinn, how he'd grow with what was festering inside him.Don't get me wrong, Ella is a kick ass character and I fell more in love with her getting to know her more. If anything, I inspire to be her. She still struggles through life and yet she's able to conquer her emotions and not completely obliterate them but use them to her advantage. And she's REAL. She jumped off the pages not just pieces of her, I saw her in everyone I passed by; she wasn't the character that was just a character in a book everything about her was real.But then you have Quinn. And how you can't love Quinn is beyond me. When I say Ella is real, somehow Quinn is more. More everything, if that helps any. Quinn is just there, he's pretty hard to miss. He's all consuming and I would've killed Ella if she didn't do anything about her feelings for him. I felt a connection to Quinn that I haven't felt with a lot of characters. And I guess that's why I say this story was close to home. And it was weired being connected to the male character than a female one, because that hasn't happened to me before.Now that doesn't mean that Quinn is feminine because holy heck is he not and Ella can tell you that much. Ella's and Quinn's relationship was off the charts. BUT even with all the hotness that floats around them and is very much apparent, this NA is a really tamed down version of what I've read. And that's saying that the emotions coursing through steamier NA characters are the same that course through Ella and Quinn. It gives you a perspective of what a relationship could be like if sex wasn't the main point. I mean sex is awesome but sometimes it doesn't have any meaning to the main characters but that is definitely not the case in this book.I can go on and on about this amazing book and when I do it'll be when we can talk about this book. So grab it, because I eagerly want to talk about this book to someone.