Author : Tabitha Suzuma
Genre : Young Adult
Pages : 432
Publish Date : May 27, 2010
Publisher : Definitions
Started Reading : January 27, 2011
Completed Reading : January 30, 2011
Book Rating : 3.5/5
She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.
And now they have fallen in love.
But . . .
They are brother and sister.
*****
This is again not in My TBR List... but fellow booklover Nikka told me about it and I was curious about it. It's a pretty controversial subject and I'm curious how the story would be told. And I guess, I'm curious with myself on how I'd take reading the story.
It's painful to read, I admit that. Honestly, I am quite not sure how I feel with the whole story. Interested, disappointed, sad and a little freaked out (admittedly). I don't know if it's because of the premise or maybe some other thing, but I somehow wasn't able to fully "feel" the characters. It was written in 2-POVs, both of Lochan and Maya, which I've always liked when reading books. But, in this book, I wasn't able to easily distinguish the two voices. For me, their voices seemed just like one. And I guess that disappointed me.
It was interesting to find out that people can be lawfully punished for consensual incest. Well, at least in the UK. I'm not sure how it is here in the country. I'm going to have to ask my friend for that.
A memorable part that somehow stuck with me was when Lochan first acknowledged his feelings to Maya...
But the words do little to reassure me. I'm desperate to escape myself because the truth of the matter is that the feeling is still there - perhaps it always has been - and now that I've acknowledged it, I am terrified that however much I may want to, I will never be able to turn things back.
It really is such a sad story. I wonder if it's the circumstances that they went through that somehow led to their story. They were just kids. And kids really shouldn't be experiencing that :(. For the last chapter, I've only managed to utter a curse after what happened. I've already expected the worst but it still didn't lessen the heartbreak. And I finally gave in at the Epilogue. No other way for me.. I finally wept with the characters...
