Oh thank god. I thought they were never going to get together and the ending was just going to be an angsty, sad, disappointing ending of sadness. But goodness gracious, I am glad that Ari’s dad finally decided to say his piece cause without that, Ari never would have accepted his feelings.
I really liked this book. I was (obviously) very invested in the characters and their interactions. I think I liked the romance of this book more than that of any of the others we have read so far this semester. Really, I liked how the suspense of Ari’s realization was built. I was sure that he was not 100% straight pretty early on in this book and was just waiting for him to realize it for himself. Yeah, the car accident and the fight were very exciting and dramatic as well, but really i was just waiting for Ari to come to his STINKING SENSES!
I am very openly bi-sexual and while that definitely changes how I would handle some things, I think that if I were in Ari’s place, it would not have taken me nearly as long as it took him to realize his feelings, let alone accept them. Yeah, he doesn’t have the most healthy idea of what a man should be, but when it comes to emotions, most people - I think - can quickly recognize them within themselves and can accept what they are feeling as true simply because we cannot change how we instinctively feel. We can try to mask it and ignore it and shove it in a box, with a lock, in the deepest darkest corner of our mind, but we can’t get rid of them. They will always be the light pollution in our mind.
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