Review: Straightjacket By: Meredith Towbin

Title: Straightjacket

Author: Meredith Towbin

Published: February 15th, 2013

My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Goodreads Summary:

Eighteen-year-old Anna has lived her whole life in shame, losing herself in books to cope with crippling panic attacks triggered by her abusive parents. Forced into a psychiatric hospital, she can’t imagine a future that’s anything but bleak—until she meets Caleb, a gifted, 19-year-old artist who insists he’s an angel.

He swears his mission is to help Anna break free from her parents’ control and fulfill a destiny that she can only dream of. The doctors, however, are convinced that Caleb is delusional.

Anna doesn’t want to be that girl who’s in love with the crazy guy, but when she sees his stunning portraits of her and the way he risks everything to keep her safe, she can’t help but imagine a new future for both of them, filled with hope. But just when it seems they’ve created heaven on earth, Caleb’s past emerges full force, threatening to destroy their tiny, blissful world. And Anna has to decide if she should follow her heart, or if Caleb’s really as troubled as his doctors say…

My Thoughts:

I was really  curious about Straightjacket when I started it, angels have been done so many times before in YA but this time it was  done somewhat differently and it wasn't the same old love story between a girl and fallen angel and I enjoyed the fact that it was different.

Anna  has been abused by her parents her whole life and even though she is eighteen she can't seem to break away from them and she finds herself in a mental hospital as per her parents, she doesn't want to be here and she seems completely broken.  Caleb is an angel who is sent down to help   Anna realize her potential and what she is meant to be. But, something happens between  Anna and Caleb that neither one see's coming.

Anna was a character that I really felt for, when you meet her and her parents I was so angry at them when  I saw how they treated their daughter, it wasn't right and it made me want to climb through the boo k and tell them what I really thought of them, the reasons that  Anna was there  and how she felt about herself were a direct result of how they treated their daughter.

Caleb was definitely an interesting character, he goes into the story ready to his job and help Anna reach his potential and I have to admit that the way that him and Anna begin to fall for each other felt a little bit insta-love but, at the same time their romance was also sweet and endearing.

Overall, this book was more like a gritty contemporary read then a paranormal one but, if you enjoy those types of contemporaries then you will definitely like this one!

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