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Nova & Quinton. True Love (2014)

by Jessica Sorensen(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Heyne Verlag

series

Nova

review 1: An absolute must read needs to be recognized now. Though it's dark, intense, gritty, and rough and may be very unappealing to those who still suffer with innocence, the people who understand life isn't perfect will absolutely rave about this book. A shocking, heart wrenching story of love, loss, and insecurity is something everyone needs -- but you may have never realized how much you needed it, till now. Breaking Nova by Jessica Sorensen is a 384 page book that will make you cry, feel, and grieve. It's an intense connection to characters that make it so well done, but the plot and reality of the book is surreal. It's so beautifully executed. From reading other reviews, this may not be Jessica Sorensen's best job, but it's still an amazing one. Breaking Nova begins wit... moreh, well, Nova Reed. Nova is the main character, who plays a love interest who can make any teenage girl feel like her feelings are valid. Nova packs in the pain of what it's like to lose a father at a young age and have the love of her life take his own life. She is able to create a reality of depression and OCD, because of her own diagnoses. The character had all the right traits and all the right details. If you've ever suffered through death, depression... you'll see yourself as Nova so fast you won't even realize you're reading your own name instead of her's.Then, there's dashing Quinton Carter. A character that makes you swoon and want to hold him closer than you've ever held anyone before. He's struggled more than he should have ever had to. Losing his girlfriend and cousin in a car accident, which he believes he caused, he's left with the guilt of two lives being lost. Though the other person in the car that hit him and his cousin's friend survived, the person he loved most died. His girlfriend Lisa not surviving is his living hell. Now, a little more after a year later, Quinton's numb, alone, and empty. The only thing that can make him feel better is drugs. It starts off with the occasional hit of pot, a hook up afterwards, and him staring at the sketch he began of Lisa but refuses to finish.That's where Quinton and Nova collide. Nova sees her dead boyfriend in Quinton. The way he looks, the way he acts, the things he draws, his view of Nova. Quinton makes it more difficult to move on from her boyfriend but inside her heart, she wants to move on. Everything about Quinton is unorganized. She can't have the time to look at the her boyfriend's suicide video, she can't watch the sunrise, she can't find numbers anymore. It's all lost and confusing. But, little does she know how she affects Quinton. Nova is something Quinton wants to keep safe, to never have to worry about all the drugs and trouble he was in. Quinton was attracted to her in the sense of not just a hook up, but someone he would treat the way he would treat Lisa, his dead girlfriend. Better than he treated Lisa. But, it's a struggle of what's inside his heart and head, listening to what he has been called when his own mind and insecurities scream the same thing at him. He's lost and empty and soon, hooked on crystal meth. After a long week at a music festival, Quinton and Nova start to thrive. But, that's when she falls apart. And realizes how much she needs to fix herself before she can fix someone else. There, she leaves everything she ever had with Quinton on the dirt road and calls her mom to come get her from the music festival. She talks about everything -- even the drugs that she did even though she truly didn't want to in her heart, but her head said to do it. She talked about Quinton and the things he rises in her. The love, the lust, the comfort. Everything inside of her head spins and leaves her with nothing to be afraid of anymore. She finally watched her boyfriend's video, she stopped counting, and got herself together. Though the reality is, it isn't easy, and the book states that. But Nova creates this amazing feeling of, 'Yeah, this may be hard but I want to do it, too' for the readers who are struggling.When she left Quinton, it was right after he tried crystal meth for the first time. He was gone. One dose was all it took to swallow Quinton whole, without the slightest bit of feeling. He became empty, animalistic with the craving for the drug. It was too much, and the old Quinton was lost. The Quinton that Nova knew and had begun to love. It's as if a broken heart was painted on the page of the book, where Nova portrays such care for Quinton. Everything about this book screams reality. The actual things that may happen or have happened to the people who sit next to you on the train or the people you walk past on the streets. This book proves a reality of even if you haven't gone through it, it exists. Sorenson creates two characters that could be telling you the story first hand, sitting in your room together. She created a plot that was so heartbreaking and intriguing at the same time. It's the plot of living a difficult life and what happens and what goes on through your head. What it makes of you. And how you handle it. This book will stay with you for a very long time. Even in the back of your mind a year after you read the book. It's an intense, dark, gritty book that will leave you unsure of what just happened but loving every unknown moment there is.
review 2: This is probably the darkest novel I have read from Jessica Sorensen so far. The overall tone of the book is a heavy one, weighing on your soul as you are taken into the damaged lives of Nova and Quinton. Depression and loneliness seep from the pages as the effects of others’ actions ripple and rip away any sense of normalcy.The author proves just how quick and easy it can be to divert down a slippery path in the search for something to numb emotional pain and she displays a slow progression as some of the characters begin to crave harder, more mind-blowing drugs in order to slip away into nothingness. The kids in the story (yes, they are kids to me) seem way too young to have experienced such loss and heartbreak; to be laden down with such inner turmoil; to be forced to seek a way to quiet the demons but it’s a sad fact that they are not. This can, and does, happen to anyone.Nova tugged at my heart strings. She’s trapped in a world of grief, where moving on is not an option, and she copes using her own methods. Caught up in just simply surviving, Nova shares her pain with no one and it was difficult to read at times. Quinton has been dealt the hand of scapegoat. He’s circumstances are brought about by accident (although, some may lay the blame at his ex-girlfriend’s door?), yet he takes the full impact of everyone’s pain and carries this burden for all to see.As the story moves on, the differences between the once very similar pair begin to emerge. Self preservation and the will to live with some sense of peace begins the moving on process for one, whilst the other slips further down the path of self destruction. As the book comes to a close, I realised the journey I’d just been privy to: it was exceptional and one that I won’t forget in a hurry.review by Charlotte Foreman on behalf of Bestchicklit.com less

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