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A review by littlebirdbooks
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
5.0
I read one extract and that was it I was hooked I had to know what was going to happen. So, on Saturday I went out to the local shopping centre and went into Waterstones. I went into a small panic when I couldn’t find it - luckily I was looking on the wrong shelf.
I started the book on the following Monday and finished it today (Wednesday). It was so hard for me to just put it down. I read it on the way home from school, at break, before school, after school - basically whenever I had a chance to. The book was centered round one family. The mother was a drunken slag if you want me to be honest. The eldest is Lochan, second eldest Maya (just 13 months apart) then there’s Kit who’s 13 (who constantly picks fights, stays out late, does drugs, drinks…) then there are the youngest of the lot Tiffin and Willa. Where there mum is always out with her boyfriend drinking or working Lochan and Maya have to act as the parents.
Lochan and Maya grow very close. At the time Maya didn’t realise that she was falling for her brother (or so we thought) but Lochan did. Eventually they tell each other and start a secret relationship. They always try and spend time alone together which includes skipping school. Lochan wants to wait to do anything serious with Maya because the risk of getting caught was too much - neither of them wanted to risk the family being split up. For the kids sake. However, when they do make the most of an opportunity neither of them thought that they would get for a long time it takes a horrible turn for the worst which gives the book a chilling ending. Which I actually predicted.
The only way I really predicted this was because one day I just couldn’t resist the urge to flip through it and grasp whatever clues I could get of the ending. Even though I kinda knew what was going to happen when I read it (this morning before school) I couldn’t help but cry. It was just so emotional. Due to the themes of the book you know that there wasn’t going to be a happy ending but you just get to love the character’s and you want things to work out for them. Just a shame that it didn’t.
Absolutely thrilled that I have finally read this book. It didn’t disappoint. I can’t think of any other author that would be better to write about something as deep as this. Having read her other books about a young musician developing depression and a cynical, depressed teenager moving from one foster home to another; I knew that she would know how to tackle a subject such as this.
This is a must read.
I started the book on the following Monday and finished it today (Wednesday). It was so hard for me to just put it down. I read it on the way home from school, at break, before school, after school - basically whenever I had a chance to. The book was centered round one family. The mother was a drunken slag if you want me to be honest. The eldest is Lochan, second eldest Maya (just 13 months apart) then there’s Kit who’s 13 (who constantly picks fights, stays out late, does drugs, drinks…) then there are the youngest of the lot Tiffin and Willa. Where there mum is always out with her boyfriend drinking or working Lochan and Maya have to act as the parents.
Lochan and Maya grow very close. At the time Maya didn’t realise that she was falling for her brother (or so we thought) but Lochan did. Eventually they tell each other and start a secret relationship. They always try and spend time alone together which includes skipping school. Lochan wants to wait to do anything serious with Maya because the risk of getting caught was too much - neither of them wanted to risk the family being split up. For the kids sake. However, when they do make the most of an opportunity neither of them thought that they would get for a long time it takes a horrible turn for the worst which gives the book a chilling ending. Which I actually predicted.
The only way I really predicted this was because one day I just couldn’t resist the urge to flip through it and grasp whatever clues I could get of the ending. Even though I kinda knew what was going to happen when I read it (this morning before school) I couldn’t help but cry. It was just so emotional. Due to the themes of the book you know that there wasn’t going to be a happy ending but you just get to love the character’s and you want things to work out for them. Just a shame that it didn’t.
Absolutely thrilled that I have finally read this book. It didn’t disappoint. I can’t think of any other author that would be better to write about something as deep as this. Having read her other books about a young musician developing depression and a cynical, depressed teenager moving from one foster home to another; I knew that she would know how to tackle a subject such as this.
This is a must read.