Review: A beautiful coming of age story for a new generation...perfection =)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
I'm sitting in quiet thought after finishing this one...I'm usually a tough sell because I am not usually too fond of books that I would classify as YA or that deal with teenage love stories, because being well over that age group, I don't feel like I have anything I can relate to there.Oh, I was so wrong this time. Absolutely became totally engrossed by this book...it was touching and sweet and reminded me how hard it was to be 17 and think you owned the world and knew way more than your parents ever did. How hard you loved and how hard you took loss...it was such a well written and beautiful book that I almost forgot I was reading fiction and not recounting my own wild youth.Alexandria was every parent's nightmare...you know who you are...the ones who hide everything they do, crawl out of their bedroom windows every night to go do God-knows-what with that bad boy that makes mom and dad cringe. She learned the hard way that what she wanted (and who she wanted) was not necessarily the healthiest thing for her, and after being blackmailed into exile to her grandparents farm, where some hard work was guaranteed to wipe the bad from her, she slowly goes through a learning process and growth from wild and careless to mature adult.K.A. Robinson knows how to write from her heart straight to ours with a bullet and I enjoyed every word. Perfect coming-of-age story for a new generation.***** 5 ***** "saving Alexandria" stars