Review: Delicate Rain Falls on Begonias
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
Delicate Rain Falls on BegoniasDelicate Rain, by Mitch Goth, is the story of Rain Phillipa. As a child, her nickname was Delicate Rain, since she was afraid of everything. Now seventeen years old and facing banishment by her parents to a girls' academy to "straighten her out," she hits the road. As a runaway, the weakest of the herd in her designer clothing, she meets Ben, who saves her from a fate worse than death.A drug dealer, Ben thinks Rain looks young, sweet, and innocent. He finds it hard to believe the trouble she's brewed up around herself. According to Rain: "But the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."As a member of Ben's group of miscreants, Rain lives a life without inhibitions, rules, or punishments. Rain's new life includes her role as a lab rat, her reaction to violence from a meth-head biker gang, and her job selling the new orange drug: Delicate Rain.Delicate Rain has flashes of insight, a good twist on educated criminals, and a good plot which holds the reader's attention.