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A review by thebooknivore
Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
5.0
There is something about this book that I love but completely haunts me. This book sucks you in like I'm guessing drugs do to addicts. I started this book around New Years but for some reason I couldn't really click to like the idea I had read the epilogue part 1 and the first chapter and the words overdose on heroin I couldn't get further. But then one day I decided I age to face what was coming and I read on. And I got intoxicated by it. I couldn't put it down.
The ballads of all the characters really knew how to pull on the strings of your heart. Every character had a story they had to tell and Kara just couldn't find a way to write hers yet. But what pulled on my heart strings more was Maya and Quentin's deaths. And reading Maya's ballad I couldn't stop tears from rolling down my cheek.
Everything about this story and the real problems that people have to face was eye opening. It haunts me to think that this actually happens to people. That people get abandoned, abused, but more that people resort to alcohol and drugs to life there lives. After reading this I have never felt more grateful for the life I live with parents who love each other and my sister and I. I feel for the people who have to go through so much grief and pain in their lives. I love this book, it makes me think and I am sure it will for a very long too
The ballads of all the characters really knew how to pull on the strings of your heart. Every character had a story they had to tell and Kara just couldn't find a way to write hers yet. But what pulled on my heart strings more was Maya and Quentin's deaths. And reading Maya's ballad I couldn't stop tears from rolling down my cheek.
Everything about this story and the real problems that people have to face was eye opening. It haunts me to think that this actually happens to people. That people get abandoned, abused, but more that people resort to alcohol and drugs to life there lives. After reading this I have never felt more grateful for the life I live with parents who love each other and my sister and I. I feel for the people who have to go through so much grief and pain in their lives. I love this book, it makes me think and I am sure it will for a very long too