Review: So honest and true
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
I received this as an ARC.Best Served Cold is a story about a girl named Julia who has learned the hard truth about men. Well she thinks she has at least. Her boyfriend of ten months while in college absolutely humiliates her in front of everyone they know in order to end their relationship "cleanly." In his twisted mind, the only way for them to split up without her crying and begging and being uber clingy was to show up at his "surprise" birthday party drunk and all over another girl. When I read that, all I could think of was "what an a**" and if I had been Julia, I would have hit him. She keeps her cool though, leaving the party feeling more numb than anything. What would any normal person dream of doing after being put in a situation like that? Of course, revenge is top on the list. She sets out to a rather crude plan to humiliate Liam, the ex, but learns a lot along the way. I am not going to tell you all of it because you should just read it to find out. Let's just say that Julia learns a lot about men in general. She learns that not everything is as it seems to the naked eye. She also learns that sometimes your friends need you more than you need them.It's a fantastic story that I could sympathize with the entire time. I have had some rough patches with an ex who left me pretty damaged for a while. Unfortunately, learning that the only way to get over that situation is to move on and forget them is not a lesson easily learned. It's also one that you can only learn for yourself. When you are going through those things and people tell you to move on, it feels like a failure almost. The truth in the words only are evident when you finally accept them. Tawdra Kandle shows this in the story very well. I hope that others who read it and feel like the world is ending for them, can understand the truth in this story.