~I Know It's Over by C.K. Kelly Martin Review~
Blurb on Back:
Pure.
Unplanned.
Perfect.
Those were Nick's summer plans before Sasha stepped into the picture. With the collateral damage from his parent's divorce still settling and Dani (his girl of the moment) up for nearly anything, complications are the last thing he needs.
All that changes, though, when Nick runs into Sasha at the beach in July. Suddenly he's neck-deep in a relationship and surprised to find he doesn't mind in the least. But Nick's world shifts again when Sasha breaks up with him. Then weeks later, while Nick's still reeling from the breakup, she turns up at his doorstep and tells him she's pregnant, and with his emotions and hopes crashing in around him, Nick finds himself struggling once more to understand the girl he can't stop caring for, the girl who insists that it's still over.
Rating and Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book but it ripped my heart out and cut it into a million pieces and placed it back in. I for one am personally pro-choice though I would never succumb and have an abortion myself, but this book just really made me think about my decision of being pro-choice. I honestly could have lived without the details of two ways an abortion could be done, for it made my stomach churn, but I feel that was the author’s purpose, to show that it’s not all sunshine and rainbows and it’s real and it’s raw. I believe this book gives teenagers facts without sugar-coating anything and not just about abortions, but about teenage love, the ups and downs, and sometimes the inevitable end of couples. It also covered homosexuality and how not only that person deals with it, but friends and families, be it easy or difficult. The fact that this book was in a boy’s perspective and not another girl’s made this book more enjoyable. It gave details on what a guy is going through in a time many think he would just ignore it. Nick was a very responsible and mature young man I think in a time his friends may have not been. I think he took the situation well and handled it to the best of his ability.
Overall I give this book 5/5 and I encourage every teenage girl (and even guys) to read I Know It’s Over.
Thoughts on Cover: Obviously I have the paperback edition. I really like the cover, but I think it gives the wrong signal. Yes, it does go along with being pure and perfect… but it gives the impression of hope and longevity. This particular book was neither of those. Nick and Sasha’s relationship was doomed from the beginning to fail and even in the end after everything was done and over with it was still unable to work. So, my thoughts about the cover are: it’s a very pretty cover and a lovely concept put onto the wrong book.
I give the cover a 4/51
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