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mardal 's review for:
Providence
by Caroline Kepnes
premise:
Jon and Chloe are best friends. Jon is the outcast and Chloe is the popular one. Jon is then kidnapped and nobody but Chloe really cares. Eventually, she moves on and tries to enjoy life. Four years later, just prior to the end of senior year, Jon is found; he was in the basement of the local mall. He's a brand new person, tall and strong, but very clearly different in an inexplicable way.
spoilers/personal reaction:
I'm kinda between liking it and not liking it. At its core, it's a forbidden love story between Jon and Chloe. The surrounding mystery portion of the story is what is Jon. And the best way to describe Jon is Bruce Willis' character from Unbreakable. He's doesn't have a superhero superpower, per se, but he has this really dangerous ability to kill people. When his emotions get really fired up, he causes the person causing him to be evoked to have a heart attack. Unfortunately, Jon does kill a person before truly understanding his 'power' which is why when he first reappears after being missing for 4 years, escapes shortly after. So he lives a secret life and keeps a close watch on Chloe. He has unintentionally killed a few more people along the way and he understands he can never physically be with Chloe without killing her. So when they have this realization quite a few years after high school graduation, they recognize they both love each other but need to love from afar.
Jon is in hiding because you know, he murdered many people. In a weird full circle situation, his kidnapper who did this thing to him, has kept tabs on him keeping tabs on Chloe and saves Chloe because she's almost dying (there was also another thing with her fiance death-threatening jealously that was provoking Jon but lets just kinda ignore the details) and protects Jon from the law after their big realization moment. It was all a little odd.
Jon and Chloe are best friends. Jon is the outcast and Chloe is the popular one. Jon is then kidnapped and nobody but Chloe really cares. Eventually, she moves on and tries to enjoy life. Four years later, just prior to the end of senior year, Jon is found; he was in the basement of the local mall. He's a brand new person, tall and strong, but very clearly different in an inexplicable way.
Spoiler
spoilers/personal reaction:
I'm kinda between liking it and not liking it. At its core, it's a forbidden love story between Jon and Chloe. The surrounding mystery portion of the story is what is Jon. And the best way to describe Jon is Bruce Willis' character from Unbreakable. He's doesn't have a superhero superpower, per se, but he has this really dangerous ability to kill people. When his emotions get really fired up, he causes the person causing him to be evoked to have a heart attack. Unfortunately, Jon does kill a person before truly understanding his 'power' which is why when he first reappears after being missing for 4 years, escapes shortly after. So he lives a secret life and keeps a close watch on Chloe. He has unintentionally killed a few more people along the way and he understands he can never physically be with Chloe without killing her. So when they have this realization quite a few years after high school graduation, they recognize they both love each other but need to love from afar.
Jon is in hiding because you know, he murdered many people. In a weird full circle situation, his kidnapper who did this thing to him, has kept tabs on him keeping tabs on Chloe and saves Chloe because she's almost dying (there was also another thing with her fiance death-threatening jealously that was provoking Jon but lets just kinda ignore the details) and protects Jon from the law after their big realization moment. It was all a little odd.