~*~::{Reading Blog #46: Finishing Impulse}::~*~

**BEWARE OF SPOILERS**

 

This week, I finished Impulse.  And I gotta say…oh…my….freaking…god.  Sarah told me this book was going to make me cry, but I didn’t think she was serious.  I have read a bunch of books before that I thought were sad, but the end of this book was really just…unexpected and did make me tear up a bit (so what?  I’m man enough to admit it…I almost cried).  I was on about page 300 yesterday evening, and it got to the point that I couldn’t stop reading.  I read for probably a solid 4 hours reading and I finished today during English after nonstop reading (all the way to page 666…creepy…)  Nonetheless.  The last half of the book I think really developed the characters 10 times better than they were in the first half.  Through the point of view of Conner, Vanessa, and Tony, you learn about their dark past and their secrets and you see more into why they are the way they are.  Conner’s mother expects the best of him and doesn’t love him.  She only wants him to do well and she wants to keep her “perfect reputation” from being spoiled…Vanessa’s mother was abusive and had bipolar disorder and beat her and treated her and her brother terribly…and Tony, we learn that he was raped at a very young age by her mother’s loser boyfriends and other people.  The book ends with one of the saddest endings I’ve ever read in a book (since Burned and Wicked…).  I didn’t see it coming.  It was the last few pages and I started to think “Huh…seems like everything’s gonna be okay…” and in the last couple pages, a huge twist happened and my breath was taken away.  I was like “Oh my God…I can’t believe that just happened…what?  NO!!”  And yeah.  I’m starting to read Identical now, so yeah. 

 

And since Ellen Hopkins is now lookin’ at my blog, I’d like to welcome her and say a friendly “Hello!!”  Then I'd give her a hug, ‘cause I like hugs.  Haha.