Review: Real, honest, powerful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2013
Deep Desires by Cholotte Stein was a glimpse into something so real, so honest, so powerful, it will stay with me for a long time. Two damaged people risk the security of their protective walls for a chance at something beautiful.I loved the first person, present-tense perspective. I could almost believe I was risking so much and benefiting so much from taking these chances.Abbie and Ivan are sweet, wounded, and utterly okay with who they are. They approach life, walls and all, thinking, Sure, it would be good if I weren't so scared all the time, but I am, so here we are, and it's good enough. Then, when things get better, it's that much sweeter, because they weren't reallly looking for better. They were just trying to survive.I am now an unabashed fan of Charlotte Stein's. Can't wait to see what else she's written. Now, here's a line from Deep Desires to make you go buy it right now:"I stepped out of my life of supermarket working and TV watching and dying a little inside every day, and I watched with bated breath as a man did something sexual to himself, in the ostensible privacy of his home."-Kindle Locations 113-115.