Rating: 4/5 Stars
Overview:
"Lo" has issues. Legitimate psycho-social issues. Apparently, she's had them the majority of her life, but they've gotten worse since the death of her only sibling; a brother named Oren. Now, in addition to an obsession with numbers and patterns that have to be completed, she finds herself stealing things. Or saving them, if you want to think like her. The urge comes and she can't resist it.
Not resisting the urge lands Lo in trouble. While searching for a new treasure she ends up outside the home of a girl, Sapphire, who ends up dead. She makes it home and, trying to forget the gunshots fired around her head, goes for her weekly trip to the flea market. There she comes across new treasures, which belong to the newly dead girl. It isn't long before she is obsessing over her death and finding herself back on the wrong side of town to find out more about her.
Someone take notice of her snooping though, and the threat on her life becomes real. While trying to avoid death and discover what really happened to Sapphire, she befriends an artist, Flynt, who lives on the streets. He becomes her guide to "the wrong side of the tracks". The threats on her life become more serious. Her trust in Flynt starts to waver. Family issues at home start to come to a head. What does Sapphire's death have to do with her dead brother? Read and find out!
Thoughts:
I liked this book. This is the second book I've read by this author and I think I will continue to read things she puts out. She keeps me interested. That's clearly obvious since I read each book in one day. (I may not have put the reviews up immediately, but each only took a day to read.) My only complaints would have to be that there is a very clear repeating theme with her sex scenes(same thing in both books), which will get annoying quickly if it continues, and the ending of this book and the psycho-social issue. That's simply not how it works. However, that's the nurse in me being picky.
The characters were interesting. I wanted more of a backstory for Flynt, and to know more about Oren. I think that there is another, mini book, about Sapphire that may give more information about Oren. I haven't actually looked into it. Lo is awkward, but not so much that she's annoying and pathetic. The scenery makes you think inner city, as it's supposed to. This book is a standalone! Woo! You know I hate when books end up as series. (Not that all series are bad! However, all books do not need to be series.)
That's one more off the list! A lot more to go.
Better get to reading,
Cho
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