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A review by kamrynkoble
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
5.0
I don’t give this book five stars because it will have a proud place on my bookshelf. I won’t recommend it to other voracious readers, I won’t ever reread it. The only reminder of it existing will be a battered, coverless, ex-library hardcover copy on my lowest shelf in my childhood home.
I give it five stars not because it was perfectly written, but because it was honest. The author took such a twisted topic of incest and made it about people who seemed real, people who inspired pity and affection and hope. It captured my attention and I utterly devoured it hundreds of pages at a time. Only an excellent book can make me read it in between scenes while I’m in a musical. Sure, I skimmed when it was bogged down and stretched out. But I couldn’t bear to stop, to prolong finding out what happens.
It made me think about life in a different way. It wasn’t glamorous, or sensationalized, and it certainly didn’t make me wish I was in that situation. Maybe girls will hide it under their covers like the other infamous incest book, Flowers in the Attic.
Nonetheless, it was a compassionate story that explores the true human nature, justice of the law, and limits placed on love. We, the prejudiced readers, are the antagonists of this story. And for that reason, I give it five stars.
I give it five stars not because it was perfectly written, but because it was honest. The author took such a twisted topic of incest and made it about people who seemed real, people who inspired pity and affection and hope. It captured my attention and I utterly devoured it hundreds of pages at a time. Only an excellent book can make me read it in between scenes while I’m in a musical. Sure, I skimmed when it was bogged down and stretched out. But I couldn’t bear to stop, to prolong finding out what happens.
It made me think about life in a different way. It wasn’t glamorous, or sensationalized, and it certainly didn’t make me wish I was in that situation. Maybe girls will hide it under their covers like the other infamous incest book, Flowers in the Attic.
Nonetheless, it was a compassionate story that explores the true human nature, justice of the law, and limits placed on love. We, the prejudiced readers, are the antagonists of this story. And for that reason, I give it five stars.