BLURB:
Seventeen-year-old VERONICA SMITH has it all: a loving family, a funky car named Jezebel, and a plan to go to college after graduation. On the first day of senior year, she meets DIMITRI GLENN--a mysterious transfer student with gray eyes and a mischievous smile who seems determined to win her heart. But there's something odd about Dimitri, leading Veronica to wonder if there's more to him than meets the eye. Before long, she finds herself in a whirlwind romance that seems too good to be true--until a series of devastating events leaves her questioning everything. It's not until she chooses to think with her heart instead of her mind that she can rise from the ashes to learn the truth of their connection.
REVIEW
Normally I do not post ratings with my reviews, but this book definitely deserve a full five stars and then some. This book will make you look at life a bit differently, through your heart instead of your brain.
When I first saw this book, I thought it might be the book to break my slump. Then life interferes, but I found the time and boy am I glad I did. This book did cure my slump, but created another problem all its own. I'm trying my hardest to push this book from my mind, in short I have a MAJOR book hangover! LOL
This book is hard to review and honestly it's not because there were not good things because there was some AMAZING things, but because of the uniqueness of this story I fear of spoiling one of the mysteries it holds.
Veronica and Dimitri are one of the most amazing strong and well written couples I've read. Though the book takes place in high school neither are their age emotionally. Their emotions, functions, thoughts are all beyond their years. I also have to say that the supporting characters were just as strong as they were which really pulled me into the book more.
The tears, the laughter, the pain, this book holds every emotion all wrapped around a love bigger than Veronica could ever imagine. There are typical issues that all high school students are presented with, but there are other underlining issues that make this story so unique and intriguing. The heartache that she has to go through before she realizes that sometimes your brain misses out on the obvious things your heart already understands.
The growth of each of the characters (not just the main ones) shows the understanding the author has of her characters. They all developed and grew at different stages which sets the story up as more life like because not all of us mature at the same rate.
This book is definitely one that will stick with me for a while. It has changed the way I see the obvious and look deeper to see what could be lying beneath the surface of each decision I make. I can't wait to read more from this author!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Just be prepared to lose your heart...
Buy Links:
Author Bio:
I’m Kim Holden. I’m a simple girl. I adore my family and friends, reading, writing, music, and iced coffee. I work full-time in accounting (because I’m in love with basic needs … like food and shelter … and my job provides the means to those) but I spend every free moment I can writing. I’m a late bloomer. I woke up one morning four years ago, at the age of 36, and said to myself, “What the heck are you doing? You’ve always wanted to write a book. Stop wasting time and get on it!” Four, long years later I self-published All of It. I must admit there’s nothing quite like sharing something you’re so intimately connected with, like a book, with others. It’s terrifying to put yourself out there. But when someone tells you how much they love your book or that it made them cry, it makes my heart want to burst. Not because it’s my book, my creation, but because I know what it’s like to love a book that much. It’s magical.
