Review: A book to savour
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2013
This is a wonderful story about two young people finding love. It's a relatively long book but, to me, that made it even better because it gave the author time to develop the story and characters. The book had a feel of relationships developing naturally. It seemed to me like the characters drove the plot rather than the plot forcing the character development. And all the characters, not just Celsi and Luke, were so different, interesting, and true-to-life.I liked the way the book alternated between different points of view. It was interesting to see the different male and female perspectives, particularly the different interpretations of the same event. Some of them were delightfully humorous, such as the first few times Celsi and Luke met, when Luke crept up behind Celsi and startled her.What I liked most of all was the general optimism in the book. The book didn't gloss over the bad things that happened (domestic violence, illness, abandonment, breakups, drugs, poor parenting, etc), yet that was all overshadowed by one thing - Celsi's positive nature. It was wonderful to read a book about teenagers and see that coming through. And it was lovely to read the romantic ending, showing that true love can overcome life's obstacles.