I’m not a writer and English is not my mother tongue so please bear with me ;-). After reading the review and most of the comments here, I have a few comments; I love Dom, I think he’s a great author and I’m one of those constantly checking to see if he has resurfaced, but I digress. If you’ve read all of Dom’s stories posted here, you have to realize the common subject is teenage angst therefore you can’t complain about the plot having too much of it; remember your teenage years people, where a minuscule pimple was the end of the world or when that guy (or girl) you had a crush on and suddenly you were walking on cloud 9!
It’s a stressful period and I think Dom makes a superb job at describing it. On the other hand, as someone mentioned, the things happening in Rory’s life were very serious, more so for a teenager, so please give him some leniency.
Now don’t mistake me, I also wanted to strangle him at times but, as someone else pointed out, the fact that you become so enraptured in the plot that you actually got to feel something while reading is testament of Dom’s talent.
Someone mentioned there were few sex scenes; I personally prefer few sex scenes and a really good plot.
This is not my favorite story, I’ve read The Ordinary Us several times but, if the reviewer thinks Rory’s angst was too much then, he/she will hate Quinn from the start!
Now on that line, can someone tell Dom that we his legions of readers are waiting for him? Three of my favorite authors (besides you guys & girls of course), are MIA! L