Beyond Repair
Need to mull over my thoughts before I can rate and write a review on this one.Result of the mulling:
3,75 stars
All the time I was reading the first chapter(s) I felt like I was missing out on something, some information to explain why Alice didn't panic at the fact that a stranger was passed out in her living room, a famous stranger but still a stranger. To explain the connection to and responsability for Holden she felt from the very beginning. I didn't understand that instant connection Alice felt to Holden. A connection that even had her contemplating telling him her real name. She never once questioned his appearance in her house and I found that strange.
Reading this book I felt like I was missing some sort of inside information. Why did Alice accept Holden being in her house like that? What happened to her in her past? I got a satisfying answer to that last question but the first still remains a mystery to me. I just couldn't click with the romance as it didn't make sense to my logical mind. Also, I missed Holden's POV. It was so absent it felt like the book could have been written and would have worked in first person as well.
Despite my confusion about the story, I did enjoy this book and that was because of Stein's writing. It has this captivating and mesmerizing quality to it that just kept me reading and kept pulling me back to the book even when I wasn't reading it. Her writing makes you feel the feelings her characters are going through and that was quite a feat in this book as I rationally didn't understand where their feelings were coming from but emotionally I revelled in them nonetheless.
Memorable Scene:
- the one with the bathtub > beautifully written scene
Favorite Quote:
“What are you thinking of?”
She wished he hadn’t whispered that. His whisper was even better in person than it was in the movies—sort of husky, with a hint of sensuousness that didn’t really fit this situation. She was just cutting him out of a damn coat, for God’s sake.
