Review: A Nice Escape from your typical YA Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2012
Joe, a story about a girl with a special ability to forsee certain tragic events that involve people who are directly or indirectly in her life. I was lucky enough to receive this book through the Shut Up and Read R2R program and first and foremost I have to thank the author for the opporunity to read her book. Joe told in multiple POV reads like a script for a movie, the writing seems a little hestitant at times but I think the author is trying to really give into the element of drama. The characters are real and the heroine is honest and heartfelt; the storyline reads like something out of Law & Order episode giving a 360 view account from all the different characters point of view with flashbacks to provide insight to the characters' mental state leading up to the climax of the story. I love a book that allows me to escape for a little while and while this book did just that; the formatting and switching tenses in between characters bothered me a little. The ending was as one hopes it to be however towards the end I had to go back and forth a little to make sure I was keeping up with the right character. My hats off to the author for writing such an awesome story with such honest emotion and relatable characters.