Review: trying to come back from heartache...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
ARC given for free by Netgalley for honest review.Breaking Nova By Jessica SorensenReview By NatalieNova and Landon Evans are best friends and always together. They met when she was thirteen and he had just moved across the street from her. Her father had just passed away and she kept her distance from everyone but, for some reason Landon was different. Landon was sitting up against a tree in front of his house drawing, when Nova stopped in front of him. He glanced up and she could not believe how much sadness he had hidden in his eyes. He looked how she felt and shortly after they were inseparable.Over the next couple years hormones start raging, they started dating and feeling no purpose in life without each other. One evening they are laid out under the stars on the hill behind Landons' house. Holding hands and professing their love for each other he says he loves her no matter what. He looks so far away and sad. Nova worries so much about him when he gets depressed like he is and he goes into his own little world. They lay quietly holding onto one another as she falls asleep. Later she wakes to find only she is laying on the hill so, she goes in search of Landon. As she reaches the front door it is left ajar and that's unusual. Although strange as it is, she whispers for him with no answer but continues her path to his room. As she reaches his door she hears the lyrics of music playing from the other side. She reaches for the handle with trembling hands and pushes the door open.Nova Reed is a beautiful, talented, intelligent, and devastatingly broken.Quinton Carter is playing DD when he should be enjoying his spring break but no he carting around his girlfriend Lexi, her best friend and his cousin, Ryder, and a guy she picked up. He's going too fast but everyone's telling him to hurry so they don't miss curfew. Lexi starts smoking in his parents car so, after telling her not to he takes it away and gets rid of it. She starts pouting and feeling him up, trying to entice him to let her smoke. After some innocent banter between them both she starts testing Quintons fun meter. Without taking her eyes off of him she starts rolling her window down, hearing Ryder yell at her to roll her window up but she doesn't. Her eyes are still on Quinton as she starts arching her back and sticking her head out the window. Lexi is too drunk to be messing around like this although, she's like this even sober. Quinton is yelling at her to get in but she gets a lazy smile on her face and its on the windowsill with her arms up in the air. All of them are urging her to get back in and shes still going on about being free and having fun. He leans over to grab her he snags the bottom of her dress and that's when he heard the scream.Fifteen months later life is different for both Nova and Quinton. Can their past ever let them be free? Will they let outside influences rule their life?This book is heart wrenching, funny, and so today's youth. As always with Jessica's books,  I give her a solid 5 stars. I loved Nova, like the car because shes so broken yet soft and caring. No matter her past she still seems to hold part of herself in the corners of her mind that guide her. Quinton is such a mess also, yet he too has kept the good guy inside to battle the bad one on the outside. I could go on for days about this book but I think I've wrote enough.. lol I can't wait for the next book to come out!!