Review: Jade is a rockstar
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I began reading Insipid.  Here’s this woman who was SO different from anything I have ever been….I wondered how I would relate to anything she was going through. Little did I know how much I would love this story.(It’s the)Same story, same words, read at a different time.  Interpreted in a way that reflected our respective life situations.That little quote from Insipid, totally sums up my feelings for this book.  Sure.  Not everyone is going to feel a “connection” to Jade Richmond, but let’s be honest, do you feel a connection with every person you meet in life?  I know I don’t.  I guess what I’m trying to say is, even though Jade isn’t someone I would typically connect with, her story IS something that I connected with.  Face it.  We’ve all felt lost.  We’ve all felt like that we were just going through the motions….so, Jade had a little help in figuring out how to bring that color back, but honestly…I feel as if ANY grown woman can relate to that.Life is a crazy combination of phases.  We all go through different stages in life, and all handle them in many ways.  Some people can handle the bulls*!t, and some emerge from it wounded and scarred.  But we keep fighting to survive.  And we all do, in one way or another.”I’m not going to go much into what exactly happens in Jade’s story, but I do know that Christine has hit it out of the park with this one.  The transformation that Jade goes through, the hurdles that she overcomes, the way she faces her demons, there’s something to be admired there.  While I may not be able to “relate” to Jade, I can definitely appreciate what she went through and how she got to the final point she is at.There’s no longer any need to hide my scars.  I wear them with pride, knowing that I survived through the darkest of days.