02.11.09
Kiss
“Heart pounding meets heart warming.” Kiss definitely lives up to that tagline. Written by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy, Kiss is now one of my favourite books. :D It’s such an incredible book with great characters and questions that will leave you wondering. I finished reading it around 1am then stayed up even longer just mulling the story over in my mind.
Kiss begins with a girl named Shauna, who wants to forget the pain in her life. To forget past hurts and fears. She doesn’t want to live with the pain from her memories, and she doesn’t want to listen to her counselors advice, “In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. … Pain or perspective, Shauna. That’s all that’s within your control.” The next day Shauna finds herself in a car accident and is in a coma for a couple days. When she wakes up, she finds she can’t remember anything that happened in the past 6 months, or the accident itself. All she knows is what people have told her. Though are they telling her the truth? She can’t even remember her boyfriend, Wayne. Now Shauna wishes she could remember. But there are others who hope she never does. Shauna must figure out what it is that these people desperately don’t want her to find out. But is she willing to risk her life? Or as the book says, “Is dying for the truth really better than living with a lie?” Shauna must decide. Between living the life she is told is hers, or discovering her past herself.
Definitely a 5 star! Everyone should read it!
