Losing Logan

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Losing Logan

Losing Logan

by: Sherry D. Ficklin
My Rating: five-stars



Published by: Clean Teen Publishing on May 2nd 2014
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary

ISBN: 9781940534

Series: Losing Logan #1
Also by this author: Extracted, Queen of Someday
Disclosure: I was invited by the author to read this title in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. I received no monetary compensation, and all comments are subjective and mine alone.



Synopsis

What if the one thing you never meant to hold on to, is the one thing you can’t let go of?

Normally finding a hot guy in her bedroom wouldn’t irritate Zoe so badly, but finding her childhood friend Logan there is a big problem. Mostly because he’s dead.

As the only person he can make contact with, he talks Zoe into helping him put together the pieces surrounding his mysterious death so he can move on.

Thrust into his world of ultra-popular rich kids, Zoe is out of her element and caught in the cross-hairs of Logan’s suspicious ex-girlfriend and the friends he left behind, each of whom had a reason to want him dead. The deeper they dig to find the truth, the closer Zoe gets to a killer who would do anything to protect his secrets. And that’s just the start of her problems because Zoe is falling for a dead guy.






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I’ve been sitting on my hands for the last few days trying to gather my thoughts to write this review. “Losing Logan” is one of those books that you kind of know you’re going to like, but when you read it you are left speechless by how much it touched you. How much emotion it pulled out of you. How much you didn’t like it…you loved it.

 

I’m not a fan of reviews that outline the plot of books. Some reviewers do that and some people like to read those types of reviews, and that’s great. But I’m going to tell you—trust me, you don’t want to read a watered down review of “Losing Logan.” You want, no, that’s not right. You NEED to read the book. You deserve to experience it firsthand. That’s how it was meant to be read and that’s the only way to really, truly feel the depth of emotion contained in “Losing Logan.” The book deserves to be read first hand, you deserve to read it, and the author, the very talented and an extremely wonderful person, Sherry Ficklin, deserves for you to read it first hand as she intended.

 

Let me say that this book and the characters it contains and their shenanigans are SO Sherry Ficklin. She’s a wicked funny person and I expected no less from her characters. She’s also a strong woman, and I expected no less from the female lead in her story. I got both.

 

“Losing Logan” is a touching story of Zoe, a girl who feels as though she just doesn’t fit in anywhere. She wants to make her mark in life, but she just doesn’t know where or how to do so. I loved Zoe. I connected with her on so many levels. In fact, in many ways, I was Zoe in high school—minus the whole seeing ghosts thing. Sherry did such and awesome job crafting Zoe’s character. I felt like I was walking through the book with her, seeing things through her eyes, feeling what she felt. It’s very hard to create a character that pulls such a strong response from a reader and it’s a sign of a talented author who can do so.

 

Logan, well, what’s not to like? Except for the being dead part, he was perfect. Swoony, but vulnerable at the same time. His character, even though dead, experienced so much growth throughout the book and it was like I was there with him, in a front row seat.

 

The secondary characters were really nicely done. Often times secondary characters are my favorites. If you’ve read my reviews before, you’ve heard that many times, I’m sure. I liked the characters surrounding Zoe and Logan. They had depth and added to the story line. I have to say, I loved Carlos! And I hesitate to point this out because I don’t want to seem biased in any way, but I was so happy to see Sherry write in a gay character that had a large role in the story. Not only did she do it, but she did it well, without stereotypes and all that other nonsense people get hung up on.

 

The mystery part of the book…Wow. I loved it. Sherry pulled it off flawlessly. The pieces all fell into place. I don’t think it was hokey or something she just chucked into the story to give it something “more.” No, she put a lot of thought and effort into making the mystery aspect of the story weave in nicely with the other parts of the plot. It was so well done. I loved it!

 

The ending. Hmm. I can’t say much because I refuse to give anything away. But there are two things about the ending that really tugged at my heart and, yes (sigh), I cried. I was reading in the living room so I tried not to cry so my son could see me. He’s almost thirteen and would never let me live it down, but, alas, it was not to be because Sherry (damn you) wrote the ending so well that not only did I cry…it was the shoulders shaking, hiccupping, snotty nose, blotchy faced crying. My nose was stuffed up for the rest of the day.

 

I’ll just say, it ended just how it needed to. And it was perfect.

About Sherry D. Ficklin

Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.

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