Review: Typical teen age, angnst ridden story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
Torn is your typical teen age, angst ridden story about two people that have been best friends their whole lives until high school. Somewhere around the age of 14 Skylar and Jackson realize they have very strong feelings for each other. Due to childhood wounds, Jackson is too afraid to allow those feelings to show so he throws himself into football, dating the hot cheerleader and, for the most part, ignoring Skylar. Skylar is quite, artistic and loves to read so she has been dubbed a geek. Jackson’s girlfriend Amber seems to take joy in making Skylar’s life miserable, and although Jackson doesn’t partake in the bullying, he doesn’t always do anything about it. Senior year is upon them and Jackson starts to realize that no matter what he does, his feelings for Skylar will never change. He also realizes that he has not feelings for Amber. Thus the story plays out.I have read a number of books with similar plot lines, and although Torn is a nice enough story I didn’t find anything about that drew me in. It’s hard to come up with different plots for romance novels so the trick is to add something to the story that makes the reader not want to put the book down, I just didn’t feel it here. I felt at times the author gave too much description. I felt as though much of the descriptive parts could have been done with fewer words. I give Torn 3.5 stars.