Favorite Quotes:
“‘I didn’t know the human voice could hit a range that high,’ he whispers to me. ‘Please tell me it doesn’t run in the family.’”
“We’re a normal family. At least, we were until our stepfather killed our mother and sold off your virginity.”
“I could spend the next eighty years memorizing the lines of his face.”
“I’d be willing to give up everything I know if it means being with you. You’re the only place I want to be.”
“I’m really not sure what I’m supposed to say or not say, but my mind has turned into ten thousand snakes, all hissing in my head.”
My Review:
Meli Raine’s second book - Chasing Allie is still straddling that divide between YA and NA and brings even more intrigue and suspense than Book 1. Allie is young, naïve, and either just lacks curiosity or is rather stupid. She seems to do whatever others direct her to do, whether that is her stepfather, friends, police, sister, or boyfriend. She may resent the authority, but she doesn’t rebel or give it much consideration. She doesn’t have much awareness of her surroundings or think ahead, is easily confused and overwhelmed, doesn’t see or look much past her own nose, or even think much past the day she is in. Yet her life has become such an adventure and her home and family held many secrets. She frustrates me… yet I care for her. I am hooked, ensnared, and hopelessly addicted to this story.