Review: Life throws you curves.....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2013
The good things about "Sock Wars".....There are many.  The writing is excellent.  This a story that is sad, funny, heartwarming, surprising and so many other emotions all rolled into one book.  In so many ways it is so true to life.  We have so many plans, and ideas of what we're supposed to do and be.  Where we should end up in life at what point in life.  So many expectations and I know in my own life nothing turned out the way I planned it would.  And I too struggled with that and tried to force myself to be what I was "supposed" to be.Lucy has had some shocks and she can't seem to recover from them.  And it's so true that everyone is different in how they handle, shock, grief, upheaval, etc.. in their lives.  But, and here comes what in my mind was the "bad" in this book.  I got to the point where I just wanted to shake Lucy and say  "suck it up and move on!!" I would have liked to read a little less of her feeling lost and stuck and read a little more about the relationship with Oliver that seemed like it was so central to the story and yet got so little time in it. The ending was a surprise to me also and I'm still not sure (a couple days after finishing it) that I'm happy with it.  But then, that too is like real life.  Things happen and happy with them or not, we move on ;)But, ultimately, I'm so happy I did read "Sock Wars" and I'm sure I will read it again.Thank you Book Rooster for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for my honest review of it.