My Never Ending List

What I found most satisfying and moving with Mesrobain’s Sex and Violence was the pure honesty of the characters.  This book is for mature readers as the language and the subject matter is forthright and open, nothing is covered up.   It’s real and it’s all contained within these pages if you can handle the subject matter.  I was startled as I flipped through the first chapter, the words came on strong but as I continued, I felt the energy and the crisp edges of the words as they flew across the pages.  Narrated by seventeen-year old Evan, we learn that for him, sex holds no emotional ties and no commitments.  Having been to many different schools, Remington Chase is just the next stop for Evan until he can finally graduate and be free from his father’s control. There is plenty of drinking, skipping classes and male testosterone at this boarding school and Evan is trying to fit in.  While he is still learning the cliques inside the school, he is being warned about whom to stay away from but with the short skirts and his past, Evan is Evan. Why change now?  Enticed by Collette, this spitfire red-head, she guides Evan to some fun action between just the two of them. As Evan emerges from the gang showers, the brutality that awaits him will crush both his body and his soul. He really should have listened to the warnings. Collette and Evan.  Two individuals, who are now facing the world differently, must face it apart. Welcome to Pearl Lake, an ancestral cabin located in a small town in Minnesota.  New town, new faces and hopefully new changes for the father and son await them.   Evan’s constant clipping of his hair and his fear of showers is just a few of the ramifications of his assault.  Evans’ past will always be with him and having new peers creates new opportunities for him.   As father and son settle into their new living arrangement in Pearl Lake there will makes for some interesting adjustments. 

This is going to be a book that you either love or hate. I loved the book for the message that it portrayed. Evan is a player, he likes girls and since he moves around so much, this works for him. He deletes girl’s phone numbers when he finishes with them and then he moves on to the next one. He doesn’t want things to get complicated so he believes in safe sex.  After the assault, Alex has mixed feeling about his previous actions.  With his scars as a reminder, his life gets even more complicated as he is dealing with PTSD and his father.  Used to be dropped him off at boarding schools, the two of them are now living under the same roof and there are some major adjustments for the two of them.  The characters so real and it is written superbly, a story that I highly recommend.