My rating: 1/5 stars
Original language: English
Original language: English
Series: -
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Abuse
Published: December 2014 by Createspace
Pages: 324 (Paperback)
Source: Received from author
Links: Goodreads
Summary (from Goodreads)
Trusting and depending on others has never suited nineteen-year-old Charlotte Cooper, who believes she’s unworthy of a happily ever after. She’s fiercely loyal to one - her BFF Joe. Afterall, Joe’s the only one who knows everything about Charlotte and he’s sworn to protect her heart, and her deep dark secrets.
Until Andrew Wagner walks into her life.
Despite his attempts to court Charlotte, she pushes him away, believing he can’t handle her past shadows. After a horrible accident, she slowly learns to trust and depend on him. As she shares her darkest secrets, he falls in love with her. Several incidents thrust the young lovers together, and Charlotte falls hard, giving her whole being to Andrew. While trying to be everything he can for Charlotte, he struggles to find the balance between family, school, love and commitment.
However, their different definitions of love and what it means to love unconditionally come to a head after Andrew spends a summer abroad and Charlotte crosses a line. His reaction sends a devastated Charlotte into the arms of Jack, an older man who can successfully balance what Andrew failed to do. He puts Charlotte first, treating her like a princess while capitalizing on her vulnerability. He gives her everything her heart desires… except Andrew.
When it comes to matters of the heart and mind, which direction do you follow? Love or Logic?
Until Andrew Wagner walks into her life.
Despite his attempts to court Charlotte, she pushes him away, believing he can’t handle her past shadows. After a horrible accident, she slowly learns to trust and depend on him. As she shares her darkest secrets, he falls in love with her. Several incidents thrust the young lovers together, and Charlotte falls hard, giving her whole being to Andrew. While trying to be everything he can for Charlotte, he struggles to find the balance between family, school, love and commitment.
However, their different definitions of love and what it means to love unconditionally come to a head after Andrew spends a summer abroad and Charlotte crosses a line. His reaction sends a devastated Charlotte into the arms of Jack, an older man who can successfully balance what Andrew failed to do. He puts Charlotte first, treating her like a princess while capitalizing on her vulnerability. He gives her everything her heart desires… except Andrew.
When it comes to matters of the heart and mind, which direction do you follow? Love or Logic?
My Thoughts
I’m not a writer
myself, but a lot of people told me that if I ever wanted to write a book I
should try to stay away from adjectives as much as possible. Most of these
people were writers, so to be honest I remembered that sentence pretty fast and
made it one of my golden rules. You know, in case I ever write something
myself.
Therefore, when
I started reading “Run Away Charlotte” I was not only a bit irritated. There
are adjectives everywhere. Sometimes one in a sentence and in the very next
sentence there is another one and sometimes even two or three in a row. For the
first time I understood why these people told me to stay away from them
(although I do tend to use not only a few adjectives in an essay myself): I got
bored really easily and it took me ages to even get into the book and still,
after I got interested in the story the slow pace and the writing scared me off
well enough to decide not to finish this at 60%. Another thing was that
everything felt really far away and even though the characters’ decisions may
have been realistic they did not feel realistic. They felt as if I already knew
them, had already seen them a thousand times. It was the same with some of
their situations and problems.
There were too many difficulties. Maybe that’s
just what I think and everyone else doesn’t see that as a problem or as weird
but it’s just so much to deal with. I can’t imagine one person who has to
suffer through so many things. At the same time the characters keep talking
about her bad phases - so how come that during these phases where she has a bad
time and is sad etc. the story is never from her point of view? It was only how
the other people (mainly Andrew, who was called “Drew” all of a sudden) felt
about those times. And the next scene – boom- everything was okay again and the
biggest worry was whether he talked to her all the time or not.
Some of the
chapters were mainly dialogue with little else and others were just
descriptions and thoughts that tended to be a little random and slowed the
story down. Oh and talking of the dialogues: So many times when she talked to
Joe somewhere in the dialogue she either looked or thought about the green
deepness of his eyes. And he’s her best friend. The funny thing was that there
weren’t nearly as much descriptions of Andrew as of Joe
Although the
point of view was from the third person singular it always felt like the first
somehow, perhaps because of the many thoughts and feelings, but I’m not sure.
And then all of a sudden the point of view would change in the middle of a
dialogue without any kind of marking or switching the chapter (which obviously
would have been impossible in the middle of a dialogue as well.) and that
usually left me blinking at the page blankly.
All in all I do
not recommend this book to anyone, even though I did notice that quite a lot of
people gave it four or five stars. Sorry, but to me it was just not convincing
enough to get me to give it more than one or two stars.