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Read it in an afternoon. The writing was good, as always. I like that the book showed both sides of a hit-and-run accident. The side-romance was an interesting plot point. I like it, but would have really liked to have seen an epilogue. Where did the story go in the future? The hanging ending didn't do anything for me. As a reader, I felt I deserved more.

Very much liked the grace theme. Would have liked for Haddings to understand the implications behind it more.


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Hit Blink Lorie Ann Grover Books Reviews

After seeing the book jacket for this book, and seeing it was inspired by a real life story, I was literally salivating when my ARC book arrived in the mail! I jumped right in and finished the book in a few hours as this is a rather quick read. There are 52 chapters, based over the course of just 3 days from start to finish, packed into all of it's 215 pages. However, some of the chapters are just a few sentences long ~ don't let the length scare you away.

The author, Lorie Ann Grover, has a new fan with me as her writing style not only clinches this book together like a present with a bow on the top, but is creative enough to make you feel like you are there on each page. This book will definitely leave you breathless, shaking your head and cheering for setting things right after they go so terribly wrong.

Sarah, or Sares, as she is lovingly called by her family, has her future planned out after meeting her teacher Mr. Haddings. Suddenly, life turns on a dime and becomes more poetic. She's drawn to him and his ability to put words to paper and make them flow, something she dabbles with and keeps journals of her poetry. She feels a connection, and sets out to tell him so when she is hit by a car on a wet rainy morning ~ an accident, but one by sheer fate, lands two people with paths already crossing on shaky ground at school crossing yet again, this time with tragic consequences. Fate brings Sares to that crosswalk that stormy morning, and in the second Mr. Haddings looks away just for a second, his car meets here there. And not in a good way.

While this book plays on the emotions and tugs at the heartstrings, it's not that creepy teacher-student romance that so often we read about in the news. Is Sarah infatuated with her teacher? Yes. She writes him a poem to tell him so, which turns out to be a catalyst in the book. That poem, found at the scene after he tries to help Sarah while waiting on 911, drives Mr. Haddings to do the right thing.

Hit's message is very clear to me. Life turns on a dime, and sometimes the unexpected turns out to be the path less chosen. The life you plan, the journey you intend to take, and the road to becoming the person you are meant to be - teenagers and adults alike - can change in an instant. It's up to you regardless of those circumstances to come back stronger and bolder and ready to challenge the one person who can make a difference - yourself.

It behooves me to say that fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen will enjoy this book immensely.

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Title Hit
Author Lorie Ann Grover
Age Group Teen/Young Adult
Genre Contemporary Fiction
Series Standalone
Star Rating 1 out of 5 Stars

I borrowed this book from my local library and reviewed it.

This book was the December pick for one of the library book clubs I go to, and to say that I was leery is an understatement. I don’t necessarily mind books that bring religion into the narrative, especially if it doesn’t take over. But Hit just really fell flat for me. The concept of the plot was interesting, and I liked that the book went between Sarah and Haddings, but a lot of the characters seemed really flat and one-dimensional. The pacing was kind of slow, though I really liked the format. I don’t know, I was expecting more from this intriguing little book, but honestly it just wasn’t for me. The prose was often so overwrought I found myself rolling my eyes or wanting to rip my hair out, and honestly the idea of Sarah being in a relationship with an older mentor who was supposed to be looking out for her best interests seemed a little far-fetched, even for a young adult novel. I don’t know, I just wasn’t feeling this book; it really fell short for me.

Sarah is a girl who longs to be seen as more than just a teenage girl; she wants to be acknowledged as an adult and a person in her own right. She’s sick of her parents controlling her every move, and of being treated like a child. She barely feels understood even by her closest friend. But when she meets the charismatic, handsome Mr. Haddings, she immediately feels as if she’s known him for more than just a semester. And despite his protests, she knows that he feels the same spark. But all of her hopes are shattered when she gets hit by a car, a car that is driven by the man she feels so drawn to. Broken and nearly beaten, Sarah must find a way back to herself, even through unimaginable tragedy, and Haddings must find a way to make his unforgivable actions right, even as he fights his attraction to a girl out to his reach.

As I said previously, this book… There were just a lot of problems with it. First of all, a lot of the prose was just so ridiculous. It went from spare and simplistic to melodramatic and eyeroll inducing, and the change in language was distracting. Most of the characters, even Haddings and Sarah, seemed flat, never going so far as to be characters in my mind; I couldn’t even mentally hear their voices. The relationship between Sarah and Haddings seemed more predatory than anything else. And the car crash seemed to just amplify that they were poorly drawn characters; it felt like Sarah was obsessed with her teacher, which could’ve been forgiven if said teacher had actually attempted to rebuff her advances. And for the most part, I didn’t mind the religious undertones, but there were times when it seemed to overtake the whole book. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was definitely more than the result. It could’ve been good, but it just was… meh. It was a brave attempt at a contemporary coming of age story with a mystery at its center, but Hit just wasn’t for me. The bottom line Flat characters, overwrought dialogue, and a ridiculous forbidden romance made Hit a book that I didn’t like; I wanted to, but it just wasn’t for me. Next on deck All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater!
Read it in an afternoon. The writing was good, as always. I like that the book showed both sides of a hit-and-run accident. The side-romance was an interesting plot point. I like it, but would have really liked to have seen an epilogue. Where did the story go in the future? The hanging ending didn't do anything for me. As a reader, I felt I deserved more.

Very much liked the grace theme. Would have liked for Haddings to understand the implications behind it more.