The latest book that I have just finished reading is called "Crash" by Nicole Williams. Starting off, this book is REALLY good. Its about a girl named Lucy Larson. She is a ballet dancer who has the dream of making it into Julliard to study to become a professional dancer. There's only one problem: Jude Ryder.
Jude Ryder is what you would call a Bad Boy. He's been arrested more times than he can count (literally...), has slept with almost all of the women in the entire state (figuratively), and is the most feared person in all of SouthPointe High School. Anyone and everyone in the entire school does not get on Jude's bad side unless they want to get put into ICU at the hospital.
What happens is plain and simple: Lucy sees Jude, Jude sees Lucy, they both fall in love with each other but they don't show it. Since Lucy also sees Jude as a brother, they became friends for the simple fact that Lucy doesn't have a brother. Anymore......
Lucy's brother, John Larson, was shot and killed by a bullet meant for their father, Wyatt Larson, a man who had a big heart and a large sense of work ethic. Until his heart shriveled 3 sizes after losing his only son. Lucy lost her only brother, her only best friend, and her whole entire heart, until she started taking up dancing in which she stopped mourning the loss of her brother in order to continue with life.
With Jude Larson, it's like she has her brother back, only he is much more stronger and protective.
The only consequence that comes with hanging with him is that she now has a new reputation, which is,by the way, not a good reputation to have.
This book's theme is that even though there may be some bumps in the road or you have had rough patches with the person you love, you always stick with the person through those times in your relationship. The reason this is the theme is because Jude had a rough childhood and is having a tough time as a teenager, and Lucy has stood by him from the day they became friends, and then when they became a couple, encouraging him to forget what happened in the past even though he really can't forget. For example, in the story, Jude tells Lucy that "I'm worthless piece of $# !% and that, with the life I'm living and my with the history I have, I'm like a cancer that you can't get rid of" and that "You need to stay away from me", but Lucy always tells him that "you need to stop living in the past because you can't change anything about it. You can only change what you do now in the present". And because of these conversations, they always end up having a mini-argument where Jude tells Lucy to leave him alone since he's no good and Lucy never listens to him, telling him that she loves him for who he is, not for what he has done.
This book can teach readers that if you love someone, you love them for who they are and not where they have been. Anyone who likes high school romance with a little bit of comedy will LOVE Crash!!!!
Hope you readers enjoy this book too!!!!! See you around!!!
-Alicea >:-D
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