We've met Crash in the previous installment and when we start this one it's already about a year (I would guess) after Romeo and Julian found their place in Cornwall. Though Romeo chose to have a different life than Crash did when arriving at the same foster home, they become fast friends and now Crash is spending the time with both of them trying to deal with what seeing Summer again, 4 years after their downfall, have done to him.
He knew what he needed to do. He needed to find him again and offer him the friendship and even the protection he promised back them, when he was almost 16 years old, without a roof over his head. The short time Summer and Crash spent together offered both something they didn't have before, it was more than the acceptance and tenderness they were so willing to offer one another, it was an ease of friendship which crumbled to the ground FAR too soon when Summer's life situation was revealed to Crash in a very crud way. Choosing the wrong thing to do and say they fall out never to meet again until a week before when Crash spots Summer on the Tube.
Though life have been great for Crash, finding a loving home and great friends, he was missing Summer endlessly. Yet going back never felt right somehow. I think he needed to grow up and FEEL grown up enough to deal with what he couldn't back then. Now was the time for him to FIGHT for Summer, yet Summer needed to confront himself first and realize what he truly wants, and what the right decision is for him. He stayed with his horrible boyfriend - Ren - for reasons he could explain to himself, yet when the situation changes and Ren shows just how much he doesn't care about anything but himself Summer finally finds his voice and pleads for help from the one person who is willing to grant it unconditionally.
I enjoyed this short novella though I truly wish we got a more substantial story of Crash and Summer. It would have felt more realistic to me. It almost felt like an "insta-love" truth been told.. Yet I can't fault this book that much for it because the story and the way everything progressed was simply BEAUTIFUL. I also really liked the epilogue with such a great closure to the story, with another glimpse of Romeo and Julian which was such a joy to read. I also applaud Suki for the way she handled Crash (and Romeo) disability - as Crash is deaf (though he can talk) and Romeo is mute. The conversation, the way they communicate with eye contact and through sign language felt so accurate and on point, it made the connection between both couples (in this book and the previous one) feel somehow enhanced if it makes any sense. It was as though their communication made them far more aware of one another. It was so special!
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Rating:
★★★★ |
E-Book
Edition |
107
pages
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Read on:
12 October 2018
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