loving Liberty
By Belinda
Boring
SYNOPSIS:
A dutiful daughter.
Perfect wife-in-training.
Easy to manipulate.
Compliant.
But secretly she wants more.
I had a hard time with this book. The premise is Liberty
wants…well, liberty. The problem is she isn’t strong enough to fight for it.
Just because I had a hard time with it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t well written. It
was the opposite in fact. You can feel how much she wants a different life. Her
hopes and dreams come off the page, even though she’s too afraid to think them
let alone voice them. I couldn’t fathom how she could be strong enough to live
a life she hated to perfection couldn’t figure out how to break free and
control her own destiny. As with most mysteries, there is an answer. It’s just
buried so deeply, Liberty doesn’t think about it until someone else mentions
it.
Then we meet Oliver. He’s the waiter who spots a kindred
spirit in Liberty. Having been where she is, he recognizes the spirit fighting
to break free. He vows to be there as a friend for her. Not that he would pass
up the opportunity for more, but he knows deep down she isn’t ready. So he sets
about showing her the best parts of his world during the brief moments she can
escape the confines of her life.
People have many prisons without bars or locks. Liberty’s
happens to be built and controlled by her society conscious parents. It was
hard for me to fathom the kind of life she lived, but I could see it was possible.
The only thing that I could not get passed was the thought that those types of
parents would have never named their daughter Liberty. The names makes for a
great title and describes what she is searching for, but I didn’t buy it, and
there’s never an explanation of why such traditional parents chose such a
nontraditional name.
Overall, Loving Liberty is a book that will keep you engaged
to find out what happens next. I wouldn’t call the ending a cliffie. Ms. Boring
definitely gives an ending to the story, but there could be potential for more
because Liberty was just figuring everything out. I think she has a lot more to
say.
Reviewed by Liz.
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