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by Amy Queau(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: I LOVED this novel so freaking much! So. Many. Feelingsss! The best thing about a novel is the way it stays with you for awhile, running on replay in your mind and you STILL get pissed off at the characters haha. Amy Queau has crafted some beautifully broken characters that took you on the ride with them, making you realize that you, too, are breaking with them. The ending was heartbreaking and I jumped right into the next novel (it's a series, and all three books are out! Yay!). Jesse drove me up the wall...he made me scream, and cry, and hurt and man o man did I hate him sometimes..but at the same time...I loved him? Is that possible? And I needed him and Charlie to work, even though Charlie deserved so much more...if that even makes sense lol. Queau takes you on such a ... morerocky journey with this novel and I wouldn't have it any other way. Everything in the story is placed with meaning and I loved that about it! I look forward to much more from her!Now, back to reading the second in the series!
review 2: 4.75/5I am a lucky girl because I went and read this whole series in about 5 days (including book #3 which I had received an ARC on). So again I feel lucky because the completion of the whole journey of this story is what made it come full circle and utterly shake up reality for me. So I am sitting here trying to figure out how to review just the first book without letting the effects of the final book seep in too much. What does this mean? Read through to the last book, you will be so glad you did and it will just blow your ever loving mind when you do. Everything you read and experience for the first 95% of the series comes full circle when you are left sitting there at the end postulating, formulating and saying NO EFFING WAY!! Anyways, I wont say more on that right now, will save it for the review of REWIRED.I first picked up the sample for PROGRESS and got sucked in by Charlie and her unlikely friendship with Jesse and their perfectly imperfect ways. This story is about characters who are as imperfect and real as you can ask for. My interest in the relationship of the two was one of great curiosity and wonderment of will they evolve into more than just friends or will they self destruct along the way. When I first described this book I called it "gentle angst" because I am a baby when it comes to angst. For some reason through most of this series I was able to maintain a detachment to the woes of life and even the Jackassedness of Jesse because it was written third person so I wasn't sitting there reading it as if it was me going through it. My feeling of staying happily detached altered later in the series, particularly book 3 (in the beginning not just at the end). This made me able to sit and just enjoy the story being laid out before me. I was excited to turn the page and see what was going to happen rather than feeling my blood pressure ratchet up. I am thankful for this and it is why I was able to read it so quickly. The main focus in this first book is Charlie and I fell in love her story and I was just too excited to put the book down.Charlie, god she is such a beautiful woman with a shattered soul but she pieced herself together and found something in Jesse that drove her to want to better herself even more. I am going to be honest, Jesse is an ass that is hard to relate to and I was not wanting to cheer him on to get the girl. I could feel for him though. He is struggling with some major psychological issues and childhood trauma that helped shaped him into who he is. The way depression, or in particular Bi-polar is written is very authentic and true to life. If you have ever suffered from depression then you know what it is like to read an account that feels like it is hitting home.As I read this book I watched Charlie blossom and grow into a truly strong woman ready to fully break into living life. It was amazing to read about this evolution. At the end I started to see Jesse breaking down his walls a bit and I started to feel for him, I started to connect to his character and my views of him began to change.As detached as I stayed compared to other angsty reads this was still an emotional rollercoaster ride. I loved every second of the ride and I didn't want it to end. I instantly went and bought book 2 without hesitation. Then while reading it I might have stalked the author. That is how much love I was having for this series. Each book just got so much better and amazing and doing things to me that no book had done to me before.Here is some of the love I was spewing for this book on facebook as I was reading:just finished PROGRESS by Amy Queau Author and OMG, so amazing. I just bought the next book because my heart is aching and I need to know how Jesse and Charlie get on with life. The end just pierced me. This book is like a gentle angst book if that makes sense, which is amazing because it meant I could keep going without stopping to catch a breath or because I was scared.I love love love this book, this series, this author, this everything. It is one heck of a hidden gem that I think should be getting so much more attention. Love. Love. Love. I feel like I can't do this series justice enough in this review so I hope you feel my love of this book and series. less

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