Review: Poor Brad
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
Fully Automatic is a retelling of Bullet from Brad's pov. We know he and Val finally get their happy ending but it was a long, tortuous road for him. Brad has always been into sweet, wholesome girls so when Ethan showed up with his friend, Valerie, Brad was a goner.In Bullet we weren't aware that Brad had pined for her to this extent. We also weren't aware of the amount of women he went through to try and ease his suffering, he was very discreet. But all along he wanted and waited for Val. We know Brad was the main driving force behind Fully Automatic. Unlike the rest of the band, Brad had no desire to waste time in college. He was too ambitious, wanting his band to be successful and share his music with the world.Ambitious enough to keep tolerating Ethan and his bad behavior and his mistreatment of Val. Of seeing her take Ethan back over and over again. Of wanting her to be their lead singer so she'll always be close. And then to keep silent when she moved on to Jet and finally trying to let go when she became Ethan's wife.If I wasn't sure of the ending I might not have had the heart to keep reading. I just wanted to shake Brad and make him tell Val how he felt. At the end she said she never knew. He might have saved himself some heartache if he'd claimed his woman. It was a good story but I liked it from Val's pov better.