Review: Beautiful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
Chasing wishes is a story of two young people from opposite worlds. Nina gets a scholarship to an elite school where she is determined to better herself and escape her drug addicted mother. Nina suddenly finds herself the victim of bullying (as no one can accept the fact that she is poor and Hispanic). Isaac is the only person in the whole school that takes the time to get to know Nina and despite all the pressure from his mother and friends, he falls in love with her.Nina gets placed in foster care just after her seventeenth birthday and not only loses Isaac but her identity.Fast forward to the future, Nina is now Irene and earning a living making sandwiches while she waits for her voice over tapes to be accepted. She still misses Isaac and has never really gotten over him, that is until the day a blind man walks into the library and changes her world.I loved this story by Nina Simonenko. I think her books just get better and better. The relationship between Terence and Irene was believable and beautiful and I kept my fingers and toes crossed that they would figure 'it' all out!Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to review this book. I am sure it will be a huge success. I look forward to reading your next work!