Book Review: Forever Night Stand

BOOK REVIEW: FOREVER NIGHT STAND
BY: YSA ARCANGEL

Brandy Curtis is a strong and independent career woman who does not care for commitment. She prefers no strings-attached, one night stands because that's all she can give with what little free time she has. This is the life she has chosen and the life she is used to.

However, everything changed when she met Ivo, a gorgeous doctor with irresistible charm. He was just supposed to be another hookup, but he quickly became so much more. It started as a one night stand which was followed by another, and another. The more nights they spent together, the more Brandy felt that life had given her something to live for.

Things seemed perfect... until a visit to the doctor sends her world crashing. The timing couldn't be worse. As her heart gets closer to Ivo, her memories begin to fade.

Will Brandy be able to actually live her life with Ivo… or will she succumb to the condition that threatens to claim her forever?

Find out how this touching journey of life and love turns out.

I want to start this review by pointing out that despite being a fairly new published author, Ysa Arcangel's tale has a lot of potential to become a noon time drama. And if you like spending your idle time being taken into a roller coaster of emotions, then Forever Night Stand might be a perfect read for you.

Also, this could be a form of a spoiler but I would like you to know that this is told by third person omniscent. You'd notice that it doesn't follow a single character but it shifts from Brandy to Ivo.

I think the novel is fairly written, well thought out. The author clearly did her research and might have also interviewed someone who has ample knowledge about the subject at hand: Alzheimer's disease. Taking up nursing, I could say that I have fair knowledge about what this disease is...that it is inevitable — something we couldn't stop but could slow down. This novel will show you that this could be hard for the patient but it is harder for the people around her: emotionally. It's something hard to cope up with.

No one really likes to talk about Alzheimer's, like how people avoid talking about AIDS. Similar. It's hard to deal with and you'll only feel hopeless. Much harder if your love ones are shot by this genetic disaster.

With that being said, the fact that this book tackles about this subject, the novel has a high dose of drama. It is supposed to be.

Personally though, I didn't feel that drama. I am a romance junkie and I cry easily: that is when I care about the character. I care about a character when I can connect with them. I think that's where this book became lacking. No connection had been made between me and the book, I didn't emphatize. I didn't feel the pinch from the scenes that I knew would have been a tear jerker.

I'd like to give an example because I found quite a few scenarios where it should have been a heavy scene and since I didn't really emphatize with either Brandy and Ivo, it failed to move me, but it would be a spoiler.

I think one way to improve this is to enhance the description of how she felt. Like how her throat would close up from the emotional lump that had formed from the base of her throat. Or how her eyes had burned and her nose flared as she fought the tears that were trying to touch her cold cheeks. Then the emotions would have been felt. This book has a lot more telling than showing, like dictating me that this is what she saw, this is what she heard and this is what she felt. I didn't experience it alongside with the character which would have been 'showing'.

I also have a confession: I didn't finish the book. Halfway through, I stopped reading. It would have been my cup of tea but I just couldn't continue reading it while the author dictated what was happening in the scene. For me, I needed to feel it. That is what makes me finish a book. That's why I read. I want to escape my own feelings and experience their emotions.

Regardless, I still think that the book is good. Maybe I am just hyper critical. I still recommend this novel to people who likes heavy drama: one conflict after the other. I'd give this a 3/5. I shy away from giving 1 or 2 stars, I understand all the hard work an author pours in a single book.

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