5 'Crazie' good Stars and one of my favorite stories! Dusty Delinquents is just as impressive as Dusty Innocents was for me! This is not a hearts and rainbows story, this is a story of two kids falling hopelessly in love while addiction and dependence turn their love into crazy love. While I rooted for them as a couple I still wanted Bliss to gain control and either help Dusty get his habit under control or show him how strong she was and leave him. Yes I know I'm contradicting myself but that's what this book does to you! A little FYI.... I read this while in Vegas for the book signing and even though there were entertainers and slot machines galore, I couldn't wait to get back and read more each evening, In fact I didn't even care about the gambling or shows. This was my show!!!Your heart will bleed right along with Bliss as she maneuvers her way through Dusty's addiction and their dependence on one another. Not sure how I felt about the ending. Even though I needed that happy ending, I still felt that their ending is yours to conclude, which I also enjoyed. With that being said I would still like to see more from this couple....(hint hint). ;) Their train wreck of a relationship and connection is so entrancing to read about and quite simply, a match made in Heaven. Unsettling, frustrating, soul crushing, captivating, gritty, raw, unapologetic, sick, beautiful these are just a few adjectives to describe this book. There is so much more and most of it I loathed but in a way that I couldn't help but keep reading and shamefully loved at the same time. I was drawn into these characters and the story and that is because the writing style is so unique and uninhibited and the story is not sugar coated. There is no "major event" that leads to the drug use or the codependency, there is no "Evil Villain". The characters are multi-dimensional and complex. It is a series of young, naive choices and rebellion. All things anyone can relate to, even if not to that extreme. These authors were not afraid to wring out every raw emotion and uncomfortable truth of real life and leave me a dried up sponge dying to be soaked back in. If you are not weary of being completely disturbed and yet completely engrossed, I recommend this book. It's poetic and real, and will leave you loving whats hopeless and hating whats reckless and wishing you could rewrite these characters history. But some of us just can't be saved.
What do You think about Delinquents (2014)?
This book is all kinds of f***** up, but I like it. It's like a drug
—Andii
Review to come as soon as I get my racing heart under control.
—timtart
