Book Review

Title: Such a Rush
Author: Jennifer Echols
Published: July 10, 2012 by MTV Books
Pages: ebook, 336 pages

4/5 STARS

 

A sexy and poignant romantic tale of a young daredevil pilot caught between two brothers. When I was fourteen, I made a decision. If I was doomed to live in a trailer park next to an airport, I could complain about the smell of the jet fuel like my mom, I could drink myself to death over the noise like everybody else, or I could learn to fly.

Heaven Beach, South Carolina, is anything but, if you live at the low-rent end of town. All her life, Leah Jones has been the grown-up in her family, while her mother moves from boyfriend to boyfriend, letting any available money slip out of her hands. At school, they may diss Leah as trash, but she’s the one who negotiates with the landlord when the rent’s not paid. At fourteen, she’s the one who gets a job at the nearby airstrip.

But there’s one way Leah can escape reality. Saving every penny she can, she begs quiet Mr. Hall, who runs an aerial banner-advertising business at the airstrip and also offers flight lessons, to take her up just once. Leaving the trailer park far beneath her and swooping out over the sea is a rush greater than anything she’s ever experienced, and when Mr. Hall offers to give her cut-rate flight lessons, she feels ready to touch the sky.

By the time she’s a high school senior, Leah has become a good enough pilot that Mr. Hall offers her a job flying a banner plane. It seems like a dream come true . . . but turns out to be just as fleeting as any dream. Mr. Hall dies suddenly, leaving everything he owned in the hands of his teenage sons: golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson. And they're determined to keep the banner planes flying. Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business—until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers—and the consequences could be deadly.

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Review:

   Such a Rush was a dramatic read.

   Leah Jones has lived her whole life in a trailer park. She has moved from one place to another because of her mother and her mother's new boyfriends. They don't have much money and Leah isn't living the normal life. Rather than living her life in sorrow, she takes things into her own hands and make something of her life. She gets a job and learns how to fly.

   Leah is an amazing character. When she was stuck living a poor life she didn't let that stop her from making it better. She fell in love with flying and that's all that mattered for. Even when the kids in school bullied her or her boyfriend cheated on her, she stood up for herself because she knew she deserved better.

   I liked Grayson, but some of the time he annoyed me. I get that he's are trying to prevent something happening with his brother, but he shouldn't have involved Leah in it. Besides the annoying moments, I loved how protective he was with Leah and how he wanted to take care of her when she needed it.

   Overall, Such a Rush was a good read. It taught me that if you're stuck in a really big problem, that just means you have to fight hard to get yourself out.