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A review by dennasus
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
3.0
First of all: I would have liked a bit of warning that this story deals with rape / nonconsensual sex. It's not graphic or anything, but no blurb I've seen even hinted at it and I think I might have liked known about it going in.
This one is a bit hard for me to rate. I thought it was a unique set of characters and plot and I was captivated by the two different lives, whose path accidentally met at the Circle K mart. The story was wonderfully written and all the characters were fleshed out well enough for me. It was a bit darker than I expected (rape etc.) and I was okay with that as well. I loved that the story about the robber shows that most of us are just trying to do the best with the cards we're dealt with. There were some great twists and turns that definitely surprised me.
Having said all that, I really didn't feel onboard with the last development / end of the story. Not primarily because I wanted it to have a different (happy-)end, but because at no point in the story I saw or felt that connection, which - to me all of a sudden - bloomed into a love story. No way! Sorry, I just didn't buy it.
Also the more I see it mentioned on other reviews now after I've finished it, I also feel like the way this sudden love comes up also somehow puts the blame for the rape on the woman (don't want to give away spoilers, why I think that). But it makes me feel even more uncomfortable with the last bit of the book.
This one is a bit hard for me to rate. I thought it was a unique set of characters and plot and I was captivated by the two different lives, whose path accidentally met at the Circle K mart. The story was wonderfully written and all the characters were fleshed out well enough for me. It was a bit darker than I expected (rape etc.) and I was okay with that as well. I loved that the story about the robber shows that most of us are just trying to do the best with the cards we're dealt with. There were some great twists and turns that definitely surprised me.
Having said all that, I really didn't feel onboard with the last development / end of the story. Not primarily because I wanted it to have a different (happy-)end, but because at no point in the story I saw or felt that connection, which - to me all of a sudden - bloomed into a love story. No way! Sorry, I just didn't buy it.
Also the more I see it mentioned on other reviews now after I've finished it, I also feel like the way this sudden love comes up also somehow puts the blame for the rape on the woman (don't want to give away spoilers, why I think that). But it makes me feel even more uncomfortable with the last bit of the book.