Review: Bloom
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2012
Haven is kinda of floating through life. Recently being moved away from the life she has always know and having to start at a new high school in her senior year has her angry and a little resentful. Deciding to finally take a risk and go to the party of the boy she likes, she could have never imagined the way the night would have ended. Going from rebellious teen to being a science experiment is a lot for a 17 year old girl to take in, not to mention the blue fire that bursts from her from time to time.Colton has moved on with his life. Leaving his alcoholic father behind he looks to make a new start in New York with his best friend. Finding he has a strange power that lets him help the local homeless is something that satisfies him. Getting pulled into trouble and arrested for his friend isn't what he thought he would be doing when he headed home from his volunteer work, but he definitely didn't think he would be recruited by a millionaire with the mission to help others by the end of the night.Lies, betrayals and unexpected circumstances will toss these two together to fight for what the think is right.I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book. I didn't really like Haven at all. She seemed way to detached from everything that happened to her. I did like Colton, he was sincere about everything, and seemed like an all around good person. He also wasn't completely trusting of everything that was going on around him, and I liked that a lot. There seemed to be a whole lot of "now is not the time to tell you this really important information" going on. Some of it I could understand, I mean how else are you going to manipulate people to your cause. But it makes me mad when this happens to often and then boom! something happens that could have been avoided if only you where told.The ending bothered me a lot, it happened a little to easy for my liking. I don't want to give away main points so I can't really explain it the way I would like. The saving grace was the epilogue, without it I think I would have screamed in frustration.The switching of point of views was great, if you ever read my other reviews you will notice that I love when this is done. I like to see a story from all different directions.Would I recommend it? I don't think so, I'm not interested in knowing what is going to happen with Haven at all, and only mildly interested in the rest of Colton story. Though I might not have liked this book to much I can see others that will love it.