Review: Kick Push by Jay McLean

4 stars! ****

Author: Jay McLean

Title: Kick Push (Road #2)



Kick. Push. Coast.

Amazing, emotional ride. It was full of secrets that kept you wondering. It was full of jokes that kept you laughing (well, mostly Tommy kept you laughing). It was full of romance that kept you swooning. It was full of anger and resentment that kept you wanting to punch somthing. Or someone.

It was full of sadness that made you cry. I was really strong and started leaking only in the last fifty pages! I'm glad that I was sensitive enought to not read it in public. That would've been embarassing.

Most importantly it was full of love. Not only the love you fell for someone else. The love you feel toward hobbys, toward life itself. It was full of hope. That unfulfilled dreams will come true. That everything will be alright, that we'll pull through, that everything will be okay.

Josh became a single father in his teens and he was left alone with his son Tommy. His parents threw him out, his baby mama Natalie run away and disappeared, his best friend had other concerns. He had to give up his greatest joy - skateboarding. He's on his own and he's got nothing. No money, nowhere to sleep, no support. Then a stranger comes and saves him. She takes him in and gives him everything he needs. Place to live, a helping hand, hope.

Becca is broken. After the death of her mother she comes to live with her grandma. She's surprised when she finds out that a man with a child also lives there. She can barely speak, because the car accident that kiled her mom also damaged her vocal folds. That's not the only thing. She can't handle being touched.

She and Tommy become the "bestest" friends. And with time she and Josh get closer to each other. She lets him touch her, a bit here and there. Both of them fell hard and fast.

Suddenly there are three things that Josh loves more than anything - his son, skateboarding and Becca. But she never planned to stay forever and eventually she leaves to attend college. And Josh is alone again, feeling more lonely than ever before.

Kick Push was a heart-breaking story with lots of twists. Once you start reading it's almost impossible to put it away. But it also make you want to throw it away sometimes. Or give a little shake to the people in the story.

I both loved and hated the book. I both loved and hated Becca. She was both strong and extremely weak. She was both annoying and endearing. I loved both Josh and Tommy. I loved Josh even when he was having a mental breakdown, I felt so sorry for him qnd just wanted to hug him.

And the ending? I honestly hope it wasn't the end. Such a fucki*g cliffhanger? I never read books with cliffhangers before there a continuation but I stupidly thought this one won't have it and it is a stand-alone. It just can't end like that. I'm refusing it.