Review: Raw Emotions, Bad Choices
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
Get ready to have your emotions scraped raw, either from the intense love between the main characters, or their overwhelming neediness and use of poor judgement.Bray has always been a little wild and willing to do anything to get a thrill, no matter the cost, but there is an underlying self-destruct button that she continually pushes. She is manipulative towards Elias while still hiding her past from him.For all of the good in Elias, his love for Bray blinded him and made him a pawn to her craziness. Even when he understood that she had an inner darkness that wasn’t “normal,” he did all he could for her in the name of “love.” The excessive use of drugs and the partying was overboard under the circumstances of their “traveling.” The concept that good people sometimes do bad things in the name of love seems to be the justification for all of the mistakes these two make and I find it difficult to understand. When Elias finally realizes the only way to save Bray is for her to face the truth and consequences of her actions, his biggest fear is that it will be too much for her and he’ll lose her.J. A. Redmerski is an amazing author who tells a tale boldly, making a huge impact on her readers. Song of the Fireflies is no exception. Whether or not the subject matter or the plot agree with me, I cannot fault her ability to write and write well.I received this ARC edition Forever (Grand Central Publishing)in exchange for my honest review.