Such a Rush
When I was fourteen, I made a decision. If I was doomed to live in a trailer park next to an airport, I could complain about the smell of the jet fuel like my mom, I could drink myself to death over the noise like everybody else, or I could learn to fly.
Heaven Beach, South Carolina, is anything but, if you live at the low-rent end of town. All her life, Leah Jones has been the grown-up in her family, while her mother moves from boyfriend to boyfriend, letting any available money slip out of her hands. At school, they may diss Leah as trash, but she’s the one who negotiates with the landlord when the rent’s not paid. At fourteen, she’s the one who gets a job at the nearby airstrip.
But there’s one way Leah can escape reality. Saving every penny she can, she begs quiet Mr. Hall, who runs an aerial banner-advertising business at the airstrip and also offers flight lessons, to take her up just once. Leaving the trailer park far beneath her and swooping out over the sea is a rush greater than anything she’s ever experienced, and when Mr. Hall offers to give her cut-rate flight lessons, she feels ready to touch the sky.
By the time she’s a high school senior, Leah has become a good enough pilot that Mr. Hall offers her a job flying a banner plane. It seems like a dream come true . . . but turns out to be just as fleeting as any dream. Mr. Hall dies suddenly, leaving everything he owned in the hands of his teenage sons: golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson. And they’re determined to keep the banner planes flying.
Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business—until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers—and the consequences could be deadly.
What I thought
As Middle Eastern, I don't really relate much to trailers parks, since I have NEVER seen one in my life, we just don't have them. Nor to small airports and planes, only flew few times in my whole life, and they were the big ones where you get stuck for 17 hours and finish two books, because you can't really sleep setting, I never wanna do it again, apart from the reading that is. So when I picked up this book, I had no idea what I was getting into, and I'm sad to say, that I still can't feel it.
Leah is a strong character, one of those don't-shit-with-me girls, I like that, but when people around her (her self included) talk about how "trashy" she is, or she act like, I just didn't get it, it's just made me think, of (My Name is Earl) and I don't think it helped a lot, it suppose to be all touchy and stuff, and I just laughed remembering that show :D didn't do the whole (enlightenment thingie) I read in reviews. Nor I could like or hate the Hall twins, I felt the book was mesh mash of trying to prove that Alec was an Angel, and Greyson is not, and then a whole big mesh mash of trying to prove, otherwise, SO confusing!! I mean, a girl needs something to hold to if she wants to crush on a guy ( by that I mean me, I wanted to crush on one of them, and I didn't, so I had to keep crushing on Deamon Black from Lux series, on another thought, I think I'm OK with it ;)). So yeah, didn't like any of the characters, didn't get into the plot, and absolutely hated Molly!
I only read Love Story by Echols, but I should have taking a clue from that book, the way she write isn't for me, it feels rushed, focusing on something for a page then explaining another in one line, it made me hate the story rather try and understand what the hell is going on, just like that movie, Momentum, they tell me it's great! I watch it and say it's great! And five minutes later, I'm like, whaaaaa??? Same with this book, I read it was good, I felt it was good while reading, but when I finished it, and did a happy dance that I was done, that's how I knew I didn't like it, I stare at the ceiling for hours when I finish a book I loved, not knowing what to do with my life anymore, dye my hair black and pink and cry because I'm that Emo! ;)
So I'm not gonna be reading anything by Echols, that's two books off my TBR, but if you enjoyed her work before, you'll probably like this one as well.
2/5
