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janinam 's review for:
Where the Stars Still Shine
by Trish Doller
I'm still not sure how I felt about this book. There were aspects of it that I really liked - like Callie being reunited with her father and her family and finally letting go of her mother, but there were aspects that really bugged me too. Like Callie falling into bed with Alex instantaneously. I get WHY - she was used to doing that sort of thing and looking for affection through sex, and thought that was all she had to give, but I just didn't like it. Maybe I am too much of a prude. I didn't really buy that there was really anything else between these two but sex. The Insta-Love thing was something I wasn't buying, but then they never talked about their feelings. They shared some Chinese food and lots of sex and no real conversation until the end. I just wasn't feeling that at all.
Callie fell flat for me as a character. She didn't really seem to do much but have sex with Alex and worry her father by taking off whenever things got overwhelming for her - which was a lot. I guess I just didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for her.
The whole aspect of her not going to school really bothered me. I mean, she had only attended kindergarten and then didn't go to school at all while she was on the run with her mother. So now she is back home and able to go and her father just so easily says "Okay, you don't have to go then." It just didn't work for me. Part of me got it and the other part of me was thinking not making her go was a mistake.
Callie fell flat for me as a character. She didn't really seem to do much but have sex with Alex and worry her father by taking off whenever things got overwhelming for her - which was a lot. I guess I just didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for her.
The whole aspect of her not going to school really bothered me. I mean, she had only attended kindergarten and then didn't go to school at all while she was on the run with her mother. So now she is back home and able to go and her father just so easily says "Okay, you don't have to go then." It just didn't work for me. Part of me got it and the other part of me was thinking not making her go was a mistake.