Review: Because of Lucy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
I really, really liked this one even though I couldn't connect with the characters throughout the entire book, I got a little confused towards the end...I love Ness's drive to be independent and I love how sure she is of herself. She's not perfect but she makes rational decisions, and I see way too little of that in books these days.I like that we get to see all sides of Evan, first he comes of as a grade A bitch but then he starts quoting poetry. Oh how I wish someone would quote me poetry. He has a lot of weight on his shoulders and I get that the easiest way to deal with it is to fend people of, hence the attitude.  But I love how he is with Ness, they're good together.Their relationship got its ups and downs but they're still solid. Then Lucy shows up and throws them both off balance. She is how she is for a reason (I'm trying so hard to avoid spoilers here!) but she's a little bit too much for me to sympatize with her and it kind of ruins her point. I do feel a huge amount of empathy for Evan because of her, which I guess would be the other reason for her appearance in the book.Even with too much of Lucy I loved this book up to a conversation Ness and Evan have toward the end. They try to patch things up between them, and they're both saying the same thing but hearing things so completely different they walk away for each other. I don't get it. They are saying the very same thing and both are saying, in an honest way, what the other one wants to hear and they still walk away. My brain hurt with all the thinking and rereading I did I at that part trying to figure out what happened.But still, this is a seriously good book and really recommend you pick it up!