Title: A Need So Beautiful
Author: Suzanne Young
Series: (A Need So Beautiful, #1)
Pages: 272
 

Not exactly what I thought the book would be and I meant it in a sort of negative way. It was ok… as always my book preference is tested and once again I’m part of the other group. I thought this one is like Unearthly and Die for me (angel story and impulses to save lives). But it’s not, so, yeah I was disappointed as a whole. It wasn’t terrible per se so I hope you’re not taken aback. Maybe you’ll like it (as most people are) but me, I’ll pass. But it’s still good enough to read the second installment.

Charlotte Cassidy had an impulse to save lives. She doesn’t know why but when the need comes it pulls her, and she can’t deny the calling, it is physically painful for her. Not only that, once she helped this person, they forget her altogether. And her body is also changing, her skin is pealing revealing a gold light. Dr. Monroe, a seer and the only person who remember about them, told her about her situation, she is a Forgotten, an angel brought to earth to spread light, hope to people. But the worst of being one, is people will forget her. All the people she lived with and she don’t like to be forgotten and banished into thin light, especially not by Harlin, her boyfriend, the person she loves the most.

Like I said above I thought it’s like Unearthly, an angel with purpose so I was really excited to read it, but too bad it falter and I end up being disappointed. None of the book’s aspect which I always look forward to didn’t capture me. The characters are not bad but I can’t say they are ok, since I don’t know, I feel nothing about them to be quite honest. I was like — ah, ok, she is an angel, he loves her, she was her best friend, blah, blah, blah. Like words just staring at me waiting from me to feel something about it, but didn’t happened.

I wasn’t feeling the angel mythology of the book either. Touching lives, I get that but casting them out in thin air by jumping on high bridge— that I wasn’t getting. But the on bright side, the book spend some time showing how being Forgotten works, so it was clear and in the end the readers actually knew what is it with them.

I also didn’t like the romance, but I must say that at least the author didn’t pattern it with the usual love at first sight. Charlotte and Harlin are been together, and whatever thing they have now was been established before the book even started. So yeah, I guess that was ok. Although I’m not the big fan of their love story, maybe I prefer the typical first encounter. Maybe.

I was checking goodreads before I read it, and I was waiting for this Monroe guy to appear and it was a surprise to find out he isn’t exactly what I thought he’ll be. I mean they really think Monroe and Charlotte together? I mean, seriously? He is forty, he is practically her father, and I don’t… see it. Really, I just don’t. It’s weird. Awkward.

Since it’s a big factor for me that I also like the guy to approve the romance part, well, Harlin is just… I don’t know what to say, like I said I feel empty with the characters here, so maybe that’s the reason why I’m not digging it like a candy on a high (or even just) sugar rush. But I must applaud the author with the unexpected twist, I was surprised to find out what he is at end of the book.

So this is just me, in fact, a lot of people like it, so by all means it isn’t horrible. Truthfully, it wasn’t. I just feel unsatisfied… empty. Yep, that’s the word, empty.