Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Wally
SERIES: Such a Colorful Feeling #2
AUTHOR: Rowan Massey
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 377 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 18, 2019
BLURB:
Most people thought our drug made us into freaks, but I say it made us happier than any other bunch of freaks in the world.
Part of the town of Emporium’s homeless since he was twelve and a drug addict just as long, fifteen-year-old Wally spends his days barely surviving, and his nights dancing while high and blood-soaked.
When a new dealer shows up in place of their old one, Wally is immediately attracted and finds himself with the possibility of his first boyfriend. On the same night, the man he knows as Doc asks him if he’d like a job in a research lab.
The money is good, his new romance is developing quickly, and everything in life seems better than ever, but the new people in his life will bring more chaos into his world than he ever could have imagined. There are changes and dangers around every corner, war is brewing in Emporium, and Wally is torn in two directions while wanting only peace for those he loves.
This is a dark series that doesn’t hold back on the tragedy. You have been warned. Although other books in this series fit the romance genre, this one does not. None of them can be read as a stand-alone novel.
REVIEW:
I tried to like this one, but I just couldn’t. There are triggers in this one like crazy. Drugs, high, suicides from the high, rape, abuse, beatings, gangs, and so much more. I understand being an addict and needing to find that high. I understand the feeling of wanting to keep that happy. But this was just so dark and I don’t mind dark but this was just all wrong for me. A doc who’s trying to help, an addict who refuses to change, no matter how he gets beaten up or abused. Even raped. It was just too much. And I can handle a lot.
Wally is used to being looked at as a freak. The fielders are what bring the tourists around to watch them dancing, high as a kite to music only they can hear. But the doc is trying to change the formula to wean people off and when Wally starts working for him, he’s discovering things are changing. Not just the formula. After almost being murdered, you’d think he’d wise up, even as doc saves him again. But he just keeps wanting to feel the high. His relationship goes from good to very bad when the political and gang wars get worse, but he can’t stop the desire to get high. And it’s fixing to cost him everything. What’s it going to take for him to stop or will he ever?
I just don’t know what to say anymore. I’ve seen that others really like this book and I’m so happy they could find what they wanted in this book, but for me, it just went too far, I guess. The sad part is, even though this is supposed to be fictional, it’s real life as well. People are so looking for that next high, they don’t care what they have to go through in order to get it. Even if it means they lose everything. Even quite possibly, their own lives. They just don’t care. It just broke my heart reading this. I just don’t know. I can appreciate the way it was written and the writing itself. The author has a way of making a story and creating this world, but it’s not for me.’
I hope you guys enjoy it. See what you think.
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