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What's going on? What just happened? Why did she do that? Why is this relevant? Oh, I got it! No. Never mind.
What's going on? What just happened? Why did she do that? Why is this relevant? Oh, I got it! No. Never mind.
In the style of popular TV programs like CSI and Dexter, Sasha Dawn has weaved a web of intrigue, suspense, and insanity in this debut novel. The main character, Callie, suffers from a diagnosed compulsion to write - graphomania - that is a coping mechanism for her traumatic past. Callie's father, a respected pastor, has disappeared along with a young girl from the church community. Callie thinks she was there the night they disappeared, and that her memories are blocked, but somehow reveal themselves in her writing. Callie must navigate the mysteries of her memories, along with a budding relationship with a classmate and a complicated and mature relationship with a boy from her time in juvie. Callie has big problem, adult problems, and that means this book isn't for young readers or the faint of heart. There is child abuse, murder, sexual abuse, trauma and kidnapping - all the kinds of things you would see in a TV crime thriller. OBLIVION is recommended for fans of those kinds of TV shows, or for teens looking for a mature thriller novel. 
I'm giving up on this one. Sadly, it shall have to be relegated to the DNF shelf.
It's just so slow. I feel like I've been reading for hours (and I probably have) and I've only just reached the 35% mark. This book is long. That wouldn't be so bad if anything was happening, but it's not. Worse yet, there's a horrible love triangle (quadrangle maybe?) that's making everything full of petty fight scenes and awful stereotypes.
So, I'm over it. Time to move on to the next read.
This book is really, really, REALLY weird. I can't stop reading it, but there's this piece of me that is so confused that I have a constant "Wait... what?" running in my head.
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"Please join me in welcoming Sasha Dawn, the author of Oblivion, published by EgmontUSA on May 27, 2014, to Christina Reads YA. I was asked to host Sasha on her second/continuing blog tour, and I asked Sasha to post about either what it was like to write YA versus teach college composition, or "why graphomania" for her novel (see summary below)..."
