Wild Roses
Author: Deb Caletti
Editor: Simon and Schuster
Year: 2005
Pretty good, but sped through the important information very quickly.
Back cover: Seventeen-year-old Cassie Morgan has a secret: She's living with a time bomb (a.k.a. her step-father, Dino Cavalli). To the public, Dino is a world-renowned violinist and composer. To Cassie, he's an erratic, self-cented bully.
Dino has always been difficult, but as he prepares for his comeback concert, something hin him begins to shift. He seems more high-strung than ever, set off by any little thing. He stops sleeping, starts chain-smoking. And he grows increasingly prranoid, saying things that Cassie is desperate to make sense of, but can't. So she does what she thinks she must: She tries to hide his behavior from the outside world. Before, she was angry. Now, she is afraid.
Enter Ian Waters: a brilliant young violinist, and Dino's first-ever student. The minute Cassie lays eyes on Ian she knows she's doomed. She tries everything to keep away from him, but is drawn to him in a way she's never felt before. It should be easy. It should be beautiful. It is not. Cassie thought she understood that love could bring pain. But this union will have consequences she could not have imagined.
As the novel crashes through two irreparable events and speeds toward its powerful end, one things becomes clear: In the world of insanity, nothing is sacred. Not talent, not spirit, not love.
Rate: 9/10
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