Sadly, it didn't amaze me like I hoped it would, but it's still a pretty good, though disturbing, story. I knew it was going to be a difficult read, and it was. But it is a crime for family members to have sexual relationships with each other (well, except cousins, at least in the UK), so I thought this would be a good book to cover for the event. Most of the books I'm covered for the Sex Crimes part of Sex in Teen Lit Month are related to sexual assault, rape, and revenge porn, so this is a slight deviation from what you've been reading about. Please read no further if you're planning on reading this book and don't want it spoilt for you. WARNING! To review this book the way I want to, I need to include some slight spoilers. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. And the stress of their lives-and the way they understand each other so completely-has also also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. He is seventeen gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.

As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending.Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma (review copy) - She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. And the stress of their lives-and the way they understand each other so completely-has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be.

She is pretty and talented – sweet sixteen and never been kissed.

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