Review: Book Whisperer's Review
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
I was pleasantly surprised with this book; it was far better than I thought it would be.  I guess that is why it is best to go into reading a book or watching a movie having no set expectations.  That being said, it is not that I thought this book would be horrible when I first picked it up; I just didn’t know anything about it so it started with a blank slate.Stella’s character was surprisingly a strong woman with her head screwed on straight (maybe a little too straight) and a goal.  That goal is to not have to move back with her parents after she finishes school and to take a job at a rehab facility. When the she runs into Van, everything changes.I related to Stella because how she lived her life in the beginning of the book is how I live mine sometimes.  She switches onto automatic pilot and just goes.  But when Van makes an appearance, she realizes that she has never really felt anything before.  She has never felt loved, wanted, needed, etc. and this encounter opens a whole new world for her.  Van, who never does anything right, does something right for Stella and of course, she does something right for him.The only problem I had with the book was the revelation with Stella’s parents.  It was confusing to me in the sense that it came from nowhere and it didn’t really explain a lot about why Stella had such a tense relationship with her father, or at least I couldn’t see why. If anything, I could see why her mother would hate her more than her father.All in all, it was a good read that left me with a warm, fuzzy feeling in the end.