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A review by joyousreads132
A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young
4.0
This book frustrated me. I loved the characters and the plot but I just...maybe it's because of the ending and the fact that I'd have to wait a long ass time for the next book but there's just a certain something that missed the spot and it's maddening. It's like a scent. I'm familiar with it but I just can't name it. Gah.
It's a story about a girl who gets these irresistible urges to be somewhere and meet someone. She can't explain it, can't fight it. It's severe pain that overtakes her until she gets to where she needed to be and has done what she was supposed to do. She doesn't do anything lascivious or anything. She helps people. She's called a Forgotten. One whose life is shortened every time she helps someone. I guess she could be considered as an angel but she's not that iconic, because as soon as she's done her job, the people she helped has already forgotten her in a span of seconds. Her family, her friends--they all slowly forgot about her--like a fading text on a sun-drenched book.
I'm going to call it original because I honestly haven't read anything like this before. I've read about angels but not like this.
The romance in this book is hotter than anything I've ever read in this genre. There's just something about the way the author wrote the scenes in a non-descriptive manner that made it unintentionally explicit. I can't explain it. Maybe it was because of Harlin; humble, kind, bad-ass on a bike, beautiful man who'd do anything for Charlotte. I melted every time this boy would look at her and swooned whenever he got frustratingly mad at Charlotte.
Charlotte was such a strong character but because her circumstances and the forces that were pulling her in two different directions frustrated me, I had a hard time liking her. The lies and the hiding and the secrets, I found myself screaming and yanking my hair because I swear I was seeing how the next scene would play out. *snorts* Maybe not.
The author took her sweet time and kept me hooked until the last two pages of the book to realize what Charlotte was meant to do. Okay, maybe I'm lying--or naive--or just plain stupid not to know that it was going to go down the way it did. But still.
I just needed more. Maybe a hundred more pages? I think I'll end this review right here because I've used up FRUSTRATING way too many times already. I'm still giving it a FOUR because, hell, it was truly unique and I'm probably the only one who was FRUSTRATED with this book (whoops, there goes another one).
It's a story about a girl who gets these irresistible urges to be somewhere and meet someone. She can't explain it, can't fight it. It's severe pain that overtakes her until she gets to where she needed to be and has done what she was supposed to do. She doesn't do anything lascivious or anything. She helps people. She's called a Forgotten. One whose life is shortened every time she helps someone. I guess she could be considered as an angel but she's not that iconic, because as soon as she's done her job, the people she helped has already forgotten her in a span of seconds. Her family, her friends--they all slowly forgot about her--like a fading text on a sun-drenched book.
I'm going to call it original because I honestly haven't read anything like this before. I've read about angels but not like this.
The romance in this book is hotter than anything I've ever read in this genre. There's just something about the way the author wrote the scenes in a non-descriptive manner that made it unintentionally explicit. I can't explain it. Maybe it was because of Harlin; humble, kind, bad-ass on a bike, beautiful man who'd do anything for Charlotte. I melted every time this boy would look at her and swooned whenever he got frustratingly mad at Charlotte.
Charlotte was such a strong character but because her circumstances and the forces that were pulling her in two different directions frustrated me, I had a hard time liking her. The lies and the hiding and the secrets, I found myself screaming and yanking my hair because I swear I was seeing how the next scene would play out. *snorts* Maybe not.
The author took her sweet time and kept me hooked until the last two pages of the book to realize what Charlotte was meant to do. Okay, maybe I'm lying--or naive--or just plain stupid not to know that it was going to go down the way it did. But still.
I just needed more. Maybe a hundred more pages? I think I'll end this review right here because I've used up FRUSTRATING way too many times already. I'm still giving it a FOUR because, hell, it was truly unique and I'm probably the only one who was FRUSTRATED with this book (whoops, there goes another one).