A review by bonnybonnybooks
A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young

2.0

The romance here was the worst, for realsies. I kept expecting Harlen to be the “initial” (loser) boy, to be replaced by the real love interest later. BUT NO. He was it. The boy who would NOT TALK ABOUT HIS MOTHER and would in fact insult and threaten Charlotte whenever she brought it up. And this was her soulmate? I can only see that because Charlotte is SO LAME.

Everyone was flat. Everyone was boring. I couldn’t bring myself to care that Charlotte was going to turn into a lightbeam from her goodness or whatever.

Also, Portland as a setting was criminally underused. It might have been New York. In fact, it felt more like New York. I can understand the desire to put in a uniformed Catholic school downtown (St. Vincent’s). But…they never seemed to go to the East Side, they all seemed to live in central downtown, and Charlotte believes that her and her high school dropout boyfriend will buy an apartment in the Pearl while she goes to college. Ummm. No. (it's the super upscale, yuppy area). Young, you live in Portland. You have no excuses.

The story could be interesting (girl whose destiny is to compulsively help people until she turns into fizz) but the execution does not live up.