Review: Amazing, Heavy, Gripping.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
Just reading the prologue of Breaking Nova completely clues you in for the type of book you are about to read. It is not fluffy hearts and flowers. It is tragedy and loss. It is devastation and grief. It is heartbreak.Nova Reed and Quinton Carter have futures that look bright and happy. Both in serious relationships and very much in love with their respective partners. But life can be ripped apart in the blink of an eye and you're left to pick up the pieces and try to go on. Sometimes the pain and guilt is just way too heavy to carry. Nova and Quinton are at such low points in their lives when they meet. The last thing that either of them want is to get involved but they can't help the connection that is there between them. Can two people who are so lost save each other or will the weight of grief and guilt be too strong?When I read the synopsis for this I thought I was going to get a book about two broken people who save each other. I was desperate for them to be each others balm. The salve you put on wounds to make them better. But the wounds that Quinton and Nova carry are just so damn deep that at the point they are in their lives I don't know that there's enough salve in the whole freaking world to make these two work together. I don't think i've ever read a book that had two more broken, damaged and destroyed characters before. These two are just drowning in their grief and loss. It eats at them almost every minute of every day.Breaking Nova weighed me down so much with it's heaviness. There was like this big giant block of dread sitting constantly on my chest. Everything was just so dark and sad. I got to about ninety percent in the book and I just had to take a break. It was a big part of the story and my heart was just so heavy I couldn't read any more. But it wouldn't get out of my head. I couldn't seem to get away from it. It just kept playing over and over.When I read a book, I want to get inside the pages and experience it all. All of the emotions. I want to feel them. If you want a book that is going to make you feel on so many different levels, then Breaking Nova is the book you need to read. I rode so many emotions. Angry, sad, desperate, happy, pain, grief, concern... I could go on and on.You're probably wondering if there were any sweet moments in this book. Yes there were, but if I'm being honest, that's not what this book is about. The subject matter is very weighty. There is death and it's very heavy on drug use. Not just the occasional user, but users who are trying to block the world and all it's pain. It is all there in black and white on each page. But when those sweet moments came along I clung to them because the darkness of the book made the sweet all the more special.Jessica Sorenson can write the socks off a hell of a lot of authors. Her books are fantastically well written and Breaking Nova is no exception. It is dark and gritty. It is heartbreaking and gut wrenching. All I can ask that we don't have to wait forever for the next book to be released.This book was gifted to me for an honest review.