Review: 2 out of 5 Stars for this slow-paced frustrating read
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
*** ARC received in exchange for an honest review ***Nova:"Looking back, I realize that Quinton entered my life for a reason. It may not have made sense when I first met him nearly a year ago, but it does now."Quinton:"This room is just a place and Nancy is just a person and I'm just another junkie loser f...ing someone I don't care about because I want to get high again."Saving Quinton starts exactly one year after Breaking Nova left us. Nova has found her way out of darkness, drugs and bad company. She tries to accept her past - her boyfriend's suicide and her attempted one - rather then forget it by getting high. Looking back at the dark place she was before she saw the sunlight made her realize that this is not the way to deal with grief, and helped her to move on.Yet she could never forget Quinton, the boy she felt so close to last summer, and who still lingers in that dark space she once was in, because he carries the self-inflicted weight of her girlfriend's death on his shoulders. And Nova is convicted she must help him, now that she saved herself. Except that when she finds Quinton, he's in a way darker place and it will take her a lot of convincing that he deserves better...I was very interested in reading more about Nova an Quinton when I finished the prequel to this book, Breaking Nova. It had a weird pace, but I thought that things would take off in the sequel. But the pace of this book was even slower than expected. The whole book depicts about 3 week's time and the slow speed just kills the reader because nothing is happening. It is a slow description of the awful world of drugs, and of the disgusting and desperate actions a drug junkie is ready to take while looking for his next fix. Jessica Sorenson makes a point in insisting on the awful physical condition and pain the drugs carry along with them, and their downward spiral moving on from joints to meth to crack.In the middle of that you find Nova, trying to help someone who doesn't want help, and who keeps getting worse. You will read about numerous of her attempts to get him out of that hell hole, which just won't work, until she succeeds and were are left with a huge cliffhanger. But I was terribly frustrated during the whole read because it remains flat and not much is added to the storyline except more disgust.I am amazed at how accurate and researched the descriptive part of the book are, and I am convinced that Jessica Sorensen does this in order to raise awareness, but by doing this, the storyline is kind of left out and lingers for a very long time...I am really not sure if I will be picking up the sequel in this series because I am afraid the pace is going to be just as bad. Yet, I still want to know more about Nova and Quinton, so I am on the fence. And unfortunately, this story also put m on the fence for any other Jessica Sorensen books: despite their high ratings, I will always be afraid that the story will linger...