Review: Different From Her Other Books
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
It is no secret that I love Redmerski's work, in fact she is one of the few authors that is on my auto buy list, even before she was picked up by a publishing agency. I just love her work, her writing and the very real characters she creates.As soon as I saw her newest release, I knew it was for me and I snatched it up and dove right in.Right away I could tell this wasn't going to be your typical boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl and they have a rocky start story. It had a completely different feel to it from the very first page. An almost Bonnie and Clyde feel.I knew I was going to get something exceptional. Not your typical two damaged people meeting and making each other whole, in fact, instead we get two only slightly damaged people that somehow make each other worse than they probably ever would have been alone yet somehow, in the end, better as well.I don't even know where to begin to try and express my feelings while reading this. Like I mentioned above, it was very different from her other work. It is told in first person dual point of views from both Elias and Bray and I liked that we got their altering point of views on everything from how they meet to how they became friends and then later lovers. It was a different change of pace than most new adult books out there and while it could have been a complete disaster it wasn't, Redmerski pulled it off and it worked nicely.While I didn't connect to Elias and Bray like I am use to doing from this author's characters, I did like their tragic and sometimes heart breaking story. They were crazy in love and did some things that never should have happened that lead to some of their darkest moments in life but they stuck together and pulled through. They were there for one another through the good and the bad.This was rough and gritty and sometimes hard to read with the brutal honesty and situations the character were put in and even created themselves.This wasn't one of my favorite stories from Redmerski but I did love it's uniqueness and overall messages about finding love, holding on to it and getting through things together, no matter the consequences or the situations.