A bit of a ramble into the lives of rather odd people - most of them likable. I liked the look into the joy and sorrow of living with synesthesia.
A little underwhelming, story-wise, but this did contain good information about enhancing memory through the use of nature. Everything I researched that was casually mentioned by the characters had a grain of truth in it. I'm not sure one should "torch" all of one's lavender if one wants to improve one's memory but the reasoning behind it slowing your memory makes sense and tests prove it. Also, Vitaraso much more than an awesome Suzuki SUV. Lots of good information to be learned here.
The only characters that really stood out as amazing were the secondary ones: Stella, the mother suffering with AD - so feisty, so funny; and JJ, the perpetually-happy friend who cracked horribly lame and innocuous jokes. I really liked that guy. I was very pleased with the ending.
What irritated me with the book, though, was the way it was structured. A fictitious doctor placed end notes throughout and copped quite the attitude within some. He was a shadowy character in some of the novel, too. Despite his character's questionable character being cleared at the end I still disliked him.
As for Norval and Noelmeh. I just could muster up any emotion for them. Or Samira, either. I didn't care what happened to any of them. Noel, I guess, a little, but he seemed so wrapped up in his smitten-ness with Samira that he was blinded to the rest of the world and that kind of put me off of him.
Just disappointing. I think this had potential. I'd have followed the story of JJ through to another book.
The only characters that really stood out as amazing were the secondary ones: Stella, the mother suffering with AD - so feisty, so funny; and JJ, the perpetually-happy friend who cracked horribly lame and innocuous jokes. I really liked that guy. I was very pleased with the ending.
What irritated me with the book, though, was the way it was structured. A fictitious doctor placed end notes throughout and copped quite the attitude within some. He was a shadowy character in some of the novel, too. Despite his character's questionable character being cleared at the end I still disliked him.
As for Norval and Noelmeh. I just could muster up any emotion for them. Or Samira, either. I didn't care what happened to any of them. Noel, I guess, a little, but he seemed so wrapped up in his smitten-ness with Samira that he was blinded to the rest of the world and that kind of put me off of him.
Just disappointing. I think this had potential. I'd have followed the story of JJ through to another book.
