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A review by loganashleyauthor
Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler
5.0
Seriously one of the best love stories I've read recently. I fell in love with Delilah as a character, and Ockler as a writer portrayed her as the perfect, rebellious, teenage girl who would so absolutely despise going to Vermont for a summer. The only complaint I really had was the fact that I basically guessed what was going to happen at the end, as soon as I started reading it. It wasn't a very complex ending, but HOW she got to that ending is what kept me reading the entire time. Her style of writing is lovely, and incredibly descriptive and poetic at times (something that tends to keep my interests peaked).
I was thrilled with some of the quotes I got from this book and some of the issues that were tackled as well as the word 'love' actually wasn't said five-hundred times in the course of a chapter...as a reader, you just knew that it was implied without having to read it. And that I appreciate; Ockler wasn't looking as the reader as someone who didn't understand her characters or their motives. She said what they were thinking, but she left out things that I (as a reader) could add. I knew Delilah and Patrick and they didn't have to say everything.
By the time I got to the end of the book, I began questioning things in my own life, as Delilah did. I would drive past cemeteries and wonder who the people were and what secrets were buried with them. I tended to do that a lot but more frequently now, reading about someone who lost someone so full of hidden secrets and untold stories. I would definitely recommend this, and will be purchasing it, ASAP!
I was thrilled with some of the quotes I got from this book and some of the issues that were tackled as well as the word 'love' actually wasn't said five-hundred times in the course of a chapter...as a reader, you just knew that it was implied without having to read it. And that I appreciate; Ockler wasn't looking as the reader as someone who didn't understand her characters or their motives. She said what they were thinking, but she left out things that I (as a reader) could add. I knew Delilah and Patrick and they didn't have to say everything.
By the time I got to the end of the book, I began questioning things in my own life, as Delilah did. I would drive past cemeteries and wonder who the people were and what secrets were buried with them. I tended to do that a lot but more frequently now, reading about someone who lost someone so full of hidden secrets and untold stories. I would definitely recommend this, and will be purchasing it, ASAP!