Review: 4 Emotional Stars!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
***“Don’t be someone who defines her life by someone else’s death.”***Dee Dee Marco has been living a life of struggle for years since losing her younger brother, Alex. Alex, was funny, free-spirited and creative. He was also gay. Tormented by bullies, Alex killed himself on his 15th birthday.  Now in college, Dee Dee has gotten a summer job working with a college-prep program for disadvantaged high school students, until she discovers that the guy assigned to co-lead her group is Cameron Connelly, a star basketball player and one of the bullies who tormented her brother to death. How can Dee Dee possibly spend the entire summer working so closely with one of the boys she blames for her brother’s death?After Alex Died deals with important issues of intolerance, false perceptions, bullying, suicide, and forgiveness to name but a few. Despite all the heavy subjects, the writing was well done and the book was a quick read.This book wasn’t bad but I just felt like I needed a bit more. It felt a bit predictable and there was a lot of OTT drama-for-the-sake-of-drama at the end. There were also some grammatical issues that were difficult to overlook.All in all though, I liked the story and the book itself carries a beautiful and powerful meaning.I would definitely check more out from this author again in the future.