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A review by karinaram
The End of Feeling by Cindy C. Bennett
4.0
3.75 Stars
Charlie is the new girl in town, after her grandmother passes away both her mentally ill mother and her move in with Charlie's aunt. Charlie refuses to be a burden, not accepting help from aunt to take care of her mother. She doesn't trust anyone to do it after her mother was sexually assaulted in a home for special needs adults thus resulting in her creation. She certainly won't entertain the idea of putting her mother away again much to her aunts dismay.
The last thing Charlie is time for is going out with her new found friends. Especially Benjamin, schools bad boy and star quarterback. On the outside he lives a charmed life, can get anyone he wants, great grades and star quarterback, but his home life is a different story. It's dark and painful and not something he shares with anyone.
Slowly Ben and Charlie form a friendship, she's heard the stories about him, and even one of her friend knows first hand considering she fell victim to his charm once. However, Ben's different with CHarlie and slowly they begin to share secrets and soon things become more serous. But when new challenges arise their bond is seriously tested and it might not work out to what they wanted.
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This book was good. I almost didn't finish after the first few chapters. Charlie was plain mean to her aunt, I wanted to smack her. If I ever have a niece who talk to me like that I would've smacked her. I mean I get why Charlie was pissed but she was outright rude and annoying about it.
Then there's Benjamin, which also annoyed me that she never called him Ben, who was so conceded I nearly died. If he didn't have such a messed up childhood I would've hated him.
"Some of our other buddies are sitting around with us as well, but they're almost unimportant. Daniel and I rule the school and they know it."
Then when meeting Charlie for the first time and he's thinking about his dating life …
"Sometimes they fall too hard for me. If I'm being honest, most times they fall too hard for me."
This was the worst one that almost made me hate Ben
"Daniel and I have a very clear understanding about girls--I get first pick, and he gets either the leftovers or my picks once I'm finished with them."
Almost ruined him for me, thankfully he redeems himself somewhat throughout the story and we're able to see him grow as a character and change hims ways.
I wish there had been an epilogue or something, The ending was super rushed and I didn't realize it was over unit lI turned the page and that was it. It didn't feel complete.
It was still a good story and I'm glad the characters redeemed themselves!
Charlie is the new girl in town, after her grandmother passes away both her mentally ill mother and her move in with Charlie's aunt. Charlie refuses to be a burden, not accepting help from aunt to take care of her mother. She doesn't trust anyone to do it after her mother was sexually assaulted in a home for special needs adults thus resulting in her creation. She certainly won't entertain the idea of putting her mother away again much to her aunts dismay.
The last thing Charlie is time for is going out with her new found friends. Especially Benjamin, schools bad boy and star quarterback. On the outside he lives a charmed life, can get anyone he wants, great grades and star quarterback, but his home life is a different story. It's dark and painful and not something he shares with anyone.
Slowly Ben and Charlie form a friendship, she's heard the stories about him, and even one of her friend knows first hand considering she fell victim to his charm once. However, Ben's different with CHarlie and slowly they begin to share secrets and soon things become more serous. But when new challenges arise their bond is seriously tested and it might not work out to what they wanted.
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This book was good. I almost didn't finish after the first few chapters. Charlie was plain mean to her aunt, I wanted to smack her. If I ever have a niece who talk to me like that I would've smacked her. I mean I get why Charlie was pissed but she was outright rude and annoying about it.
Then there's Benjamin, which also annoyed me that she never called him Ben, who was so conceded I nearly died. If he didn't have such a messed up childhood I would've hated him.
"Some of our other buddies are sitting around with us as well, but they're almost unimportant. Daniel and I rule the school and they know it."
Then when meeting Charlie for the first time and he's thinking about his dating life …
"Sometimes they fall too hard for me. If I'm being honest, most times they fall too hard for me."
This was the worst one that almost made me hate Ben
"Daniel and I have a very clear understanding about girls--I get first pick, and he gets either the leftovers or my picks once I'm finished with them."
Almost ruined him for me, thankfully he redeems himself somewhat throughout the story and we're able to see him grow as a character and change hims ways.
I wish there had been an epilogue or something, The ending was super rushed and I didn't realize it was over unit lI turned the page and that was it. It didn't feel complete.
It was still a good story and I'm glad the characters redeemed themselves!