“There are reasons—many reasons—some particles shouldn’t combine, no matter how curious
you are about the outcome. Sometimes things explode; sometimes they dissipate,
evaporate, disintegrate. And sometimes they collide and become something so
much more than you ever thought they could.”
I received a free digital copy of
this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest
review.
Sebastian ‘Bash’ Alvarez was only
come to a party at a roller skate rink where he works to make sure that his
sort-of-best-friend Wild Kyle didn’t do stupid things when he met Birdie
Paxton, the ‘Couch Girl’ who shouldn’t be at that party at all. There’s a bit
of traction and friction between the two of them, but they got separated before
both of them can act on it. Their two worlds collide again when Wild Kyle’s car
hit Birdie’s baby bother. Bash was on the passenger seat, Birdie doesn’t know
that. Bash also didn’t know that the kid that Kyle hits is Birdie’s brother. The
two getting closer when Birdie begin to work at same roller skate rink as Bash.
When they begin to really fall for each other, the truth is slowly unfolding
and could change their life in a way that both of them won’t be expecting.
Oh God this book. First of all, don’t
let the cover deceived you like it did to me. The cover made you think that
it’s a kind of book with a mushy-cutesy love story, when the truth is, it’s
not. This book fills with tragedy, there’s a bit of comedy here and there but
70% of this book consist of tragedy. I hope the publisher will change the cover
to something more fitting to the story.
To be honest, it’s a bit difficult
for me to like both Birdie and Bash at the beginning. At first, I think both of
them are bad human beings, though I have to say I like Bash a bit because of
his sense of humor. Both of them do things that I really don’t like. Bash feels like an enabler and Birdie is just
higher-than-thou judgmental person. That being said, when I got to know both of
them better, they’re kind of growing on me and I ended up wishing happiness for
both of them. Though I have to say that I feel like Bash character is more
well-thought than Birdie’s character. There are parts where I feel like Birdie’s
personality is all over the place. As for the other characters, there are two
of them that I really love. They’re Bash’s Mother and Birdie’s Grandfather,
Camilla and Sarge. I wish I could learn more about their story, but instead I
got story about Kyle, who I despise.
As for the story itself, waiting for
the truth to come out when you’re reading this book is like watching a bad meteor
collision about to happen. It most likely will end up in a really bad way but still, you can’t
look away. (Though to be fair, there’s still a little chance that everything is
going to be okay by the end of the book, but it’s a pretty slim chance.) In
between, we would see a lot of science (mostly chemistry) reference that both
of them connected to their lives. I’m not an expert or science or whatever, but
this type of writing is kind of fresh and I really like it. Some parts of the
writing also reminded me of John Green writing style in Looking For Alaska and Paper
Town, so if you really enjoy both books, you might want to give a chance to
this one.
In conclusion, I like this book. Though it is kind of hard to get into at the beginning, this is a sort of
book that grows on me along the way. I only hope that the publisher will change
the cover to something more fitting to the story. Something with charcoal arts
with a nudge to chemistry and science. I recommend The Inevitable Collision of Birdie and Bash, and this book comes out today (25th
July 2017)! I’ll put the link below in case you want to grab it from Book
Depository.
* Real rating: 3.8 stars
- Title : The Inevitable Collision of
Birdie and Bash (ARC)
- Author : Candace Ganger
- Language : English
- Page Count: 320 pages
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