ARC Review: Fault Line - Christa Desir

Title: Fault Line
Author: Christa Desir
Pub Date: October 15th 2013
Publisher: SimonPulse
Page Count: 240

Ben could date anyone he wants, but he only has eyes for the new girl — sarcastic free-spirit, Ani. Luckily for Ben, Ani wants him too. She’s everything Ben could ever imagine. Everything he could ever want.

But that all changes after the party. The one Ben misses. The one Ani goes to alone.

Now Ani isn’t the girl she used to be, and Ben can’t sort out the truth from the lies. What really happened, and who is to blame?

Ben wants to help her, but she refuses to be helped. The more she pushes Ben away, the more he wonders if there’s anything he can do to save the girl he loves.

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The amount of times I used the word "stupid" in my review notes is concerning. This novel was pretty much... Stupid. It deals with very serious topics but just doesn't do it well at all.

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It was also quite literally MC Ben with half-hearted attempts at trying to help Ani and the ending being him giving up on her.How incredibly pointless.

The most important thing to note about this novel is that a lot of bad things happen and this novel is supposed to be feelsy. That failed. I didn't feel anything from the writing, the plot, the characters and even with every bad thing that happened.

MCs Ben & Ani are both idiots driven on their hormones and constantly thinking about sex. The story starts with some kind of mysterious air but quickly turned me off. Hell, Ben wanted to have sex with Ani before they had even dated for a MONTH and spoiler alert... They did.

 It was a relationship built off nothing and went far too fast to actually be real. Ben's opinion on Ani was that she was the only real girl in the world because she was witty and didn't take his crap but at the same time, she was completely shameless in some of her actions. These two characters were unbearable to the point I wanted to go Tangled and smack them with a frying pan. They had no development, were stupid and on top of that, just plain annoying.

This book is from the Male's POV yet the author is female. Usually it doesn't matter but this MC is a PERV with all capitals. It's a complete incorrect perception on guys. There was an entire paragraph on Ani's legs that just made me shudder. As well, there's a major incorrect perception on females too. ML (Male Lead) makes it sound like all girls are airheads except for Ani, who speaks her mind.

 Christa's Writing? Fragmented and actually pushed my attention away instead of drawing it in. She used the word "bigness" in a sentence... Should that even be allowed? Her dialogue is stiff, descriptions lacking and boringly bland.The story is also about how Ani was "supposedly" raped but I say that with "" because she has memory loss. What actually happens isn't known so I can't even feel bad for her. The story, however, is written like the rape was what happened set in stone.

The casual use of the word "rape" is also disgusting and offensive to rape victims. I am deeply offended at this author's ignorance and the way these very mature and sensitive topics are dealt with. But not even just rape; the amount of sexual topics in this book shouldn't even make it classified as YA. Thanks to this book, I now know what a blow job and what sex is in good detail. I feel completely appalled to read this crap and I rarely ever feel such hatred that I do now.

And lets (vaguely) talk about the ending. After Ani is raped, Ben is trying to be supportive and help her because Ani becomes a girl with no self esteem who has sexual relations with random people. I don't know if this can actually happen in real life but with how Ani acted and how Ben responded, I was just done with this book. However, that ending made me lose faith in everything. It was one of those endings where you kind of go "what the hell? That's it?" It made me feel like reading this was an even bigger waste of my time. It was open ended to the point where nothing happened.

This book is a complete mess that I completely loathed. There is nothing positive I can say, everyone was an idiot, characters were unbearable, plot went nowhere and this novel (if you can even call it that) is an utter waste of your time.

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I'm a YA author who loves dark contemporary books. My debut novel FAULT LINE comes out from SimonPulse October 1, 2013. My second novel BLEED LIKE ME will be released from SimonPulse in Fall 2014.

I am also a feminist, rape victim activist, and romance novel editor. I live outside of Chicago with my awesome husband and our three small children.