Friday, January 4, 2013

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen


R: **** 


For everyone who wasn't saved.

This book meant a lot to me. Not because I love reading or because I pictured one of the main character as Diego Gonzalez 

but because I've felt the way Callie has felt. Gone. Lost. Forgotten. 
It's amazing the way our author, Jessica Sorensen, describes a teen's daily life. 
 "It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp seem to slip away like sand in the wind.
*Sniff sniff* Now, let's get serious. 

  • Pace: 90%
  • 2 Main Characters: So, the story's told from 2 different points of view. Callie's and Kayden's. You can sense the difference (Kayden says a lot of bad words and it's horny most of the time) even though they let us know when each of them is talking.  
SPOILER ALERT.
        - Callie Lawrence: Our main character, she's 18 years old and had lived 6 years of her life hiding between the shadows of fear. She was raped at the age of 12 during her birthday party. Since that day she was scarred and was forced to hide and to remain quiet for her safety. She didn't have any friends and was dark-looking (chopped hair, black clothes, excessive eyeliner) but it wasn't her fault. She wanted to be unnoticed. Invisible. She felt not only safer that way, but also she felt free from all the dirt she had been carrying since that day. That god damn day. That is until her fate crosses with Kayden's and finally finds true friendship when meeting Seth.
      
      - Kayden Owens: Harrased by his dad since he was 7 years old. Love had never been a friend of his. He considered happiness and everything else complex. Simplicity is what he wanted but not what he needed. He's a football player, quarterback to be exact. From the outside you could say that his life is perfect. Hot girlfriend, jock, perfect family. That is until he's alone of course. He was forced to think that hell is a place called home. His scars made sense when no one was looking. But Callie would finally free him from those chains and kiss the pain on those scars away. 

enough emo-ness, now let's go personal.

At first I expected some John Green-like shit that would make me go like
and it kinda did at first! like, aw poor girl and shit. And then when they meet in the university things start to get sticky. Kayden starts thinking weird shit man, it's kind of annoying. It's all like, 


I'm not kidding. But overall it was all cute, the way he made her feel safe with the D. I'm kidding. 
The way every problem of mine seemed so small compared to theirs. It gave me hope to see that there are people that actually care. Like them. 
 AND LET'S NOT LEAVE SETH AND LUKE BEHIND. They freaking ROCK.

I really think this young adult porn novel really emphasizes the way we ALL feel alone and in the need of being saved. I wish I could be saved. All the time. And I really hope that  God gives me a friend like Seth. We all feel lost sometimes. Others, always.
You think you want to die but in reality you want to be saved.

AND BEFORE THIS REVIEW ENDS. WAIT A FUCKING SECOND. THE CLIFFHANGER AT THE END OMFG JESSICA WHY WHY WHY. 
*Insert fucking happy face here* THE NEXT BOOK COMES OUT FEBRUARY 28, 2013. 
AND HERE'S A TEASER.
TO CALM YO' TITTIES. TEASER # 1.

Confreakingclusion: It gets better. It does. And I believe that's what Jessica and all of these amazing characters let us know. That once we find a little ray of sunshine we can make it through. Just free yourself from those chains that go like "Hide, Stay." and tell them,

Things to point out:
- There are not a lot of details given to support Kayden's character.
- I'm not kidding when I say this book has more sexy time than dialogue.
- The situations shown in this book are VERY accurate to us teenagers.
- Caleb Miller, I hate you.
- Nothing was told directly, Jessica gave clues and everything but you had to figure everything else. I like that.

Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence, but there are those who don't get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who dont get saved.