A Place Without you
The Law of Henna and Bodhi:
When love breaks, fall inward, fall together, and fall hard. Then let time pick up the pieces. Everything feels temporary when you've experienced tragedy-until Henna Lane meets Bodhi at a music festival. Young and spontaneous, they have a lust for seizing the moment, falling hard and fast. When Bodhi is forced to leave without a goodbye, Henna thinks she'll never get over him. But then she meets Mr. Malone, her sexy, new guidance counselor. They are reckless.
They are forbidden. When their secret is discovered, Henna has to choose between finishing school-banned from seeing Mr. Malone-or dropping out to follow her nomad dreams. Henna chooses her dreams. Over time, she learns that life is not a destination or a journey, some things are more than temporary, and the forbidden can never be ignored. But if she returns for him, will he still be hers? A Place Without You is an emotional story of young love, shattered dreams, and impossible decisions.
When love breaks, fall inward, fall together, and fall hard. Then let time pick up the pieces. Everything feels temporary when you've experienced tragedy-until Henna Lane meets Bodhi at a music festival. Young and spontaneous, they have a lust for seizing the moment, falling hard and fast. When Bodhi is forced to leave without a goodbye, Henna thinks she'll never get over him. But then she meets Mr. Malone, her sexy, new guidance counselor. They are reckless.
They are forbidden. When their secret is discovered, Henna has to choose between finishing school-banned from seeing Mr. Malone-or dropping out to follow her nomad dreams. Henna chooses her dreams. Over time, she learns that life is not a destination or a journey, some things are more than temporary, and the forbidden can never be ignored. But if she returns for him, will he still be hers? A Place Without You is an emotional story of young love, shattered dreams, and impossible decisions.
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Did I get the wrong book or did I get the wrong book? Why are my thoughts on this book different from others? I'm confused.
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I really wanted to like this book knowing that it had the teacher-student (in this case, counsellor) trope and it should give forbidden, scandalous vibes right?
But it didn't.
There was this light-heartedness in this book that almost made it too immature for me to read. I get the hippie, the-world-is-your-oyster vibes the author is going for but Henna was a little too playful and not serious enough for me. She wanted to stop school for Bodhi because she loves him and her parents allowed, her mother whom Henna calls by her name and not "mom" gives her a pack of condoms to lose her virginity at Coachella, she's the daughter of two rich people, she gets to be high on weed or whatever she smoked at school... like her world seemed set up in a way that she really can say screw it to her life without proper education or whatever we adults struggle with when we were younger and still live. I know it's fiction but its so unrealistic even for a fiction world.
They were supposed to have an explosive connection having met at Coachella and then in their respective lives as the days go by but I didn't feel the connection at all. It just seemed impulsive and childish, especially with the way Henna called Bodhi her baby daddy within minutes of meeting him. I don't see that quality of that in Bodhi or the quality of love from Henna. Bodhi was ready to throw away everything for Henna for that "love" when he had the responsibility of taking care of his ill father, that doesn't scream adult to me.
Henna lives by this quote:
I'm not sorry for giving this rating but I'm sorry to myself for picking this book up in the first place.
THIS IS NOT SPOILER FREE
I really wanted to like this book knowing that it had the teacher-student (in this case, counsellor) trope and it should give forbidden, scandalous vibes right?
But it didn't.
There was this light-heartedness in this book that almost made it too immature for me to read. I get the hippie, the-world-is-your-oyster vibes the author is going for but Henna was a little too playful and not serious enough for me. She wanted to stop school for Bodhi because she loves him and her parents allowed, her mother whom Henna calls by her name and not "mom" gives her a pack of condoms to lose her virginity at Coachella, she's the daughter of two rich people, she gets to be high on weed or whatever she smoked at school... like her world seemed set up in a way that she really can say screw it to her life without proper education or whatever we adults struggle with when we were younger and still live. I know it's fiction but its so unrealistic even for a fiction world.
They were supposed to have an explosive connection having met at Coachella and then in their respective lives as the days go by but I didn't feel the connection at all. It just seemed impulsive and childish, especially with the way Henna called Bodhi her baby daddy within minutes of meeting him. I don't see that quality of that in Bodhi or the quality of love from Henna. Bodhi was ready to throw away everything for Henna for that "love" when he had the responsibility of taking care of his ill father, that doesn't scream adult to me.
Henna lives by this quote:
Don't sweat it, everything is temporaryI mean sure yeah it is but there are some decisions that you take with irreversible consequences that you have to live with for life and how are you going to face those with that kind of mindset?
I'm not sorry for giving this rating but I'm sorry to myself for picking this book up in the first place.
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