I’ve started reading this book a while ago and put it down after 20 pages because I was so tired after coming back from work but I picked it up again yesterday around 10pm and I couldn’t stop myself from reading it. It’s only when it was 3.30am, I forced myself to stop and told myself I will finish it this evening.
She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister.
Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so completely—has also also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right.
I can’t tell you how much this book is great, how much it makes me feel holy shit!! I think I’ve definitely got something for stories related with forbidden love (even in post-apocalyptic worlds *winks at TLOU and Joellie*)
Books talking about incest is not new to me. When I was younger I was reading fanfics about Tom and Bill (from Tokio Hotel) and even after years I’m still impacted with some of them stories as they were wonderfully developed.
Back to Forbidden, I can’t imagine not crying at the ending, I have this foreboding it’s not going to end well. I can feel it. It’s already risky where they are. They were already some impactful twists so far. It’s so well written, many many times my heart started to beat faster, each time they got closer (and I love that they get more and more close only bit by bit and sometimes it’s one step forward two steps backward). I also feel really strange when Lochan is having a panic attack, it almost feels like I’m having one.
Anyway, I give this book 5 out of 5 stars already. And I’m pretty it will overtake Alice Bliss (a book I read in May 2015) in the ranking.
And also there’s something funny. My goal this year was to read 12 books. Before yesterday, I thought I’d fail since I had only read 11. So I had told myself fuck it I just want to read, it doesn’t matter if I’m in the middle of the 12 book. Haha. I think I’m going to complete it XD