Review: It's hard for a reader who has life experience to suspend real knowledge to make the story work.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
I have such conflicting feelings on this story. On one hand, I love that author's are willing to take on such a heavy topic such as addiction. I think it's hard to balance the true darkness of that subject in the realm of romance. And it's hard for a reader who has life experience to suspend real knowledge to make the story work.-Nova: drove me crazy with her comparisons of a summer of smoking some weed to someone who is cranked on meth and heroin. I was mocking her with the other characters. I understood her driving need to help Quinton as a way to atone for her perceived mistakes in her relationship with her deceased boyfriend, but her Pollyanna attitude was grating. I just wanted to slap her and say Really? When she tells Quinton she loves him, I don't believe it because they haven't had a relationship outside of a weekend concert and then 2 weeks of her trying to convince him to seek help while he was high as a kite. Maybe the 3rd book will change my mind.-Quinton: No way any junkie is that coherent to be that introspective and caring about another person. I fully realize this is fiction but this is one of those real life things I can't ignore. Junkies don't care about anything or anyone except for getting high. There might be a moment of clarity when they are coming down, but when they are high...no way. It felt like Quinton was the "light" version of a junkie - the one who didn't do the really bad things that junkies do to stay high.Despite my grumblings, I really do enjoy Sorensen's writing even as I hate that she necessarily breaks up these stories into many books. Yet, I'm drinking the kool-aid and will continue to buy them if only to exorcise my own ghosts.