For me, reading a great book is like a double-edged blade…I get to live and breathe the life/lives of the character(s) for as long as the author allows me to do so. I get to journey to amazing and beautiful but I sometimes see foul and disgusting places. I meet wonderful, kind and amazing people as well as some horrible, soulless and heartless ones…and I meet every type of person in between. I am able to ascend to the highest point of all emotions and I dwell in the lowest form of emptiness. I can see, smell, taste, hear, touch, and feel everything I read....
It isn’t often that I come across a novel that transcends both age and gender. In fact, “Collision Course” by S.C Stephens is only the second book on my blog to do so....
While I absolutely love reading all kinds of novels from all different vantage points, my favorites tend to be those written from a male’s point of view(POV). Maybe because I’m a girl and I have spent my whole life trying to understand boys…heehee..I don’t know…but stories written from a male perspective always tend to grab my attention and hold on to it. Ms. Stephens writes her remarkable story, “Collision Course,” from the POV of Lucus. Lucus is a seventeen year old high school senior. He has lived through a tragedy that most of us will hopefully never have to understand let alone experience first hand. Let’s just say that the tragedy itself is now the easiest part of what Lucus faces on a daily basis....
