Review: Not what You Expect. In For a Journey.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
Have you ever judged a book by the cover and thought hmmmm --- this looks like a good love story and then once you open and read it , it is so not what you thought it was ? That's what it was like for me when I read Chasing Memories by Adriana Law. What starts off as a nice love story with Virginia aka Gin in love with her brother's best friend Chase and the pair of them skiving off to hook up after the family visited a carnival so turns into a novel where the reader thinks OK , what the heck is happening here as it flips to what seems like Virginia at a college situation with a roommate named Lizzie and we discover that she hasn't spoken to her family in two years. Virginia is headed home after her mother has been in an accident and when she goes home , we see the family in a new light and as weird stuff starts occuring it makes the reader think , alright what's going on here? Then as the novel goes on , things are at a steady place and then the ending goes and surprises everyone and makes us think - wow , what have we just read as not to give away the story , I will leave readers with this one statement "All is not what it seems".Readers , when you read Chasing Memories by Adriana Law think of Heartbeat by Faith Sullivan as in a way but not the exact , it is similar but not really.