Katerina's Reviews > Like Gravity

This book.. This book.. It's so, so good it hurts..

“Since the second you woke up in my arms on the sidewalk that day, it was only a matter of time until we got here, to this moment. We were inevitable. You know it. I know it.”

What would you do if your mother was murdered in front of you and you were the reason the man responsible went to prison? If your father didn't give a damn about you and you hated the pity in everyone's face? If your past prevented you from living in the present? Brooklyn dealed with her issues using sex and tequila. And books, to make the nightmares go away.

“Books had given me an escape during the long years when I'd needed most to forget; when I read, Brooklyn disappeared and I became another girl, in different place, at some other time.”

She built walls around her, walls so high and impenetrable that there wasn't a single person in her life who knew about her story and her grief. Until she met Finn, frustrating and extremely arrogant Finn, who unlocked memories she didn't know they existed.

“Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in”

I loved the songs. I loved Finn. I loved Brooklyn. I loved Lexi. I loved the tears that streamed down my face. I loved the wonderful writing, there were so many quotes that spoke straight to my soul. I loved even the heartbreaks. Julie Johnson combined romance and mystery in a unique way, I shivered in every scene that led to the grand finale. I don't know if it was obvious or if I have read so many books that I saw it coming, but still the slow and masterly building of the tension and the agony throughout the story left my insides twisted in a knot and my breath shallow.

“Being near you, Brooklyn…it’s like breathing. I don’t have a choice about it; I just have to do it or I know I won’t survive very long. ”

Finn wasn't what I expected. Of course he had the bad boy vibe from the start, but soon he showed that he loves tenderly, with fierce devotion and determination, with every fiber of his being. Brooklyn was scared, but she realized that her mother would never want her to throw away any chance in happiness because of her. The main characters were painted so vividly, their emotions and reactions and their mistakes, that it was inevitable to fall for them, to suffer with them, to hope and dream and love with them.

“Tell me a story Finn...”

Julie Johnson told us a heartwarming story, about love and grief, about pain and trust and home, about gravity pulling two people together and saving them.