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Touch was a good book. It started weirdly, very sudden and anti-climatic. We see our MC doing crazy stuff and drinking and then she meets the love-interest, which I liked how she commented he was hot but didn't instantly fall in love with him. What did bother me from that beginning was the fact that she was so given to help him when she didn't know him. It was weird and I have to admit she explained it with a "he looked so scared" but it's kind of not enough... you don't go around helping people that steal your shoes and try to kill you because they look scared! you run like hell the other way! But then Dez was never, you know, a normal girl, she would do anything to get a reaction out of her father...
I kind of had a hate/want-to-please relationship with him, just as Dez had! Which was scary of me to want to make the bad guy happy at the same time that I hated him. The thing is, the relationship Accardo created for them was scarily realistic. I loved that.
Kale was... well, he was damaged (this seems a requisite to be a MC's love interest these days) and he was like a new-born baby with the outside world since he'd been captive in Denazen (the place where Dez's dad works) all his life. And I liked his innocence in the first chapters... then it started to bother me, like, really? are you that slow to accomodate? Are you really going to want to kill every boy that looks at Dez because you *THINK* you're in love with her? And talking about Kale being in love, it was a poor explanation on his part saying he loved her because he felt more for her than what he felt for Alex, like, ALEX IS A BOY, UNLESS YOU'RE GAY, THEN YOU'LL ALWAYS LIKE GIRLS BETTER. And Dez just melted when he said that (and I yawned, I'm so tired of insta-love). Although Dez said "no, it's not love, I don't think I love you yet." the next chapter she was saying "I think I love you" when no more than 2 days had passed. OMG, really Dez? that's all it took?
I was dissapointed with that I wanted Dez to be more protective of him but in a more brotherly way and then discover she kind of loved him; him being all in love with her didn't bother me because he simply didn't know what love was. He admited he only knew white/black, good/bad kind of things so, he either hated you or loved you. So he would know what was in between but for Dez not to protest when he made the Alex comparision is just dumb.
I liked the betrayals, because they were unexpected and awesome and unthinkable until they were there in your face. So that was awesome.... The end was just MEH. I expected a bigger cliffhanger, I expected something crazy and then: THE END. but now, we see some crappy nail-trick and that's supposed to be the big thing we are going to wait forward to reading in the next book? MEH!
This book is GOOD, don't be fooled by my problems with it. Read it and get your own conclusions :)
I kind of had a hate/want-to-please relationship with him, just as Dez had! Which was scary of me to want to make the bad guy happy at the same time that I hated him. The thing is, the relationship Accardo created for them was scarily realistic. I loved that.
Kale was... well, he was damaged (this seems a requisite to be a MC's love interest these days) and he was like a new-born baby with the outside world since he'd been captive in Denazen (the place where Dez's dad works) all his life. And I liked his innocence in the first chapters... then it started to bother me, like, really? are you that slow to accomodate? Are you really going to want to kill every boy that looks at Dez because you *THINK* you're in love with her? And talking about Kale being in love, it was a poor explanation on his part saying he loved her because he felt more for her than what he felt for Alex, like, ALEX IS A BOY, UNLESS YOU'RE GAY, THEN YOU'LL ALWAYS LIKE GIRLS BETTER. And Dez just melted when he said that (and I yawned, I'm so tired of insta-love). Although Dez said "no, it's not love, I don't think I love you yet." the next chapter she was saying "I think I love you" when no more than 2 days had passed. OMG, really Dez? that's all it took?
I was dissapointed with that I wanted Dez to be more protective of him but in a more brotherly way and then discover she kind of loved him; him being all in love with her didn't bother me because he simply didn't know what love was. He admited he only knew white/black, good/bad kind of things so, he either hated you or loved you. So he would know what was in between but for Dez not to protest when he made the Alex comparision is just dumb.
I liked the betrayals, because they were unexpected and awesome and unthinkable until they were there in your face. So that was awesome.... The end was just MEH. I expected a bigger cliffhanger, I expected something crazy and then: THE END. but now, we see some crappy nail-trick and that's supposed to be the big thing we are going to wait forward to reading in the next book? MEH!
This book is GOOD, don't be fooled by my problems with it. Read it and get your own conclusions :)