Review: Beware of major drug use. Very depressing book but beautiful story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
Saving Quinton is the second book in the Nova series. First and foremost…. Jessica Sorensen is freakin’ amazing at angst young romance novels. Everything she writes is gold to me. The first book in the series Nova is one of my favorites of hers. I fell in love with the broken characters of Nova and Quinton to see them transform into something that wasn’t drugs or a horrid past.Beware of spoilers if you have not read book 1 – NovaSaving Quinton is just like the first book told in the perspective of both Nova & Quinton alternating between the two. This book is full of drugs, not just drug use but detailed scenes of drugs being used. It was a very sad and depressing book in general.Nova is still trying to overcome the suicide of her boyfriend and is successfully starting her life over again, drug free. Even though almost a year has passed since Quinton walked out of her life she can’t stop thinking about him and is set to find him and help him get clean. Nova spends the summer in Las Vegas after discovering where Quinton went off too. He is living with Tristan in a decrepitating apartment building filled with drug users. All the boys do is get high and steal to keep their habit alive. Quinton is going down a dark road and isn’t only getting deeper. No matter who hard Nova tries she cannot help him. He doesn’t want her too.I loved being able to read both of their POV’s because you know the entire time they both want the same thing. They care deeply for each other but Quinton still feels as if he is “no one” and does not deserve Nova’s love. He is pushing her away the entire time. It’s incredibly sad and depressing. As I said, this book is just a downer all around but it’s emotional and is building up to the moment when everything will work out.This book felt more like a middle to me then a beginning, middle, and ending. I never felt like Nova, book 1 had a real ending and this just continued on from Nova and setting up the next book in the series. There is no real ending, so be prepared to want the third book PRONTO. I just have to have it now and find out what will happen between Quinton and Nova!!The only reason I could not give it 5 stars was at times I felt the book was just too slow and at times seemed like it was the same thing over and over again. Nova would talk to her camera, go over to Quinton’s apartment just for him to tell her to leave, and then it would happen all over again the next day. With that said, I was still biting my nails and turning pages quickly just to see what happens next.If you do not mind reading about detailed drug use and a long, emotional story then I highly recommend the Nova series. These characters are so broken, so depressing… you just want them to finally get their happily ever after… TOGETHER!!I can’t wait for book 3!I give Saving Quinton (Nova #2) 4 Stars.ARC provided by the author in return for an honest review.