Pretty Dark
Nothing
Heather L.
Reid
ISBN:
978-0-9853278-1-1
April 2013
4 Stars
*This review
is from an uncorrected galley I received through NetGalley*
I decided
not to write a synopsis for this one because there is no way to do so without
it sounding like a lot of other YA books out there. Yes, there is everything one would expect to
find in a young adult romance novel: romance, family dysfunction, and school
drama. What set this novel apart are the darker aspects like mental illness,
suicide, and the paranormal.
The reason
this book didn’t get five stars is that if you take away the darker and creepy
aspects it is pretty typical young adult fiction. There are a lot of dark young
adult novels out there as well but this one dug its claws in and didn’t want to
let go. The protagonist, Quinn,
questions her mental stability throughout the novel and I doubted right along
with her. I struggled with Aaron as he
struggled with his past and unrelenting heartache. Even the normal attributes to young adult
fiction that I mentioned earlier were darker which made it more interesting. I definitely recommend this novel, especially
if you are looking for something a little different.
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