Review behind the Bars by Brittainy C. Cherry
Behind the Bars, the first beautiful and emotional standalone in the all-new Music Street Series from Brittainy C. Cherry is available NOW!
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When I first met Jasmine Greene, she came in as raindrops.
I was the awkward musician, and she was the high school queen.
The only things we had in common were our music and our loneliness.
Something in her eyes told me her smile wasn’t always the truth.
Something in her voice gave me a hope I always wished to find.
And in a flash, she was gone.
Years later, she was standing in front of me on a street in New Orleans.
She was different, but so was I. Life made us colder. Harder. Isolated.
Caged.
Even though we were different, the broken pieces of me recognized the sadness in her.
Now she was back, and I wouldn’t make the mistake of letting her go again.
When I first met Jasmine Greene, she came in as raindrops.
When we met again, she was the darkest storm.
Español
Cuando conocí a Jasmine Greene, ella vino como gotas de lluvia.
Cuando conocí a Jasmine Greene, ella vino como gotas de lluvia.
Yo era el músico extraño, y ella era la reina de la secundaria.
Lo único que teníamos en común era nuestra música y nuestra soledad.
Algo en sus ojos me dijo que su sonrisa no era siempre la verdadera.
Algo en su voz me dio una esperanza que siempre anhelé encontrar.
Y en un instante, ella se había ido.
Años después, se encontraba de pie en frente de mi en una calle en New Orleans.
Ella era diferente, pero yo también. La vida nos hizo más fríos. Duros. Aislados.
Encerrados.
Incluso a pesar de que éramos diferentes, mis pedazos rotos reconocieron la tristeza en ella.
Ahora ella está de vuelta, y no cometería el error de dejarla ir de nuevo.
Cuando conocí a Jasmine Greene, vino como gotas de lluvia.
Cuando nos encontramos de nuevo, era la tormenta más oscura.
Review
I love, I love all Brittainy books. Are magical,
transport me to their stories and they do not release me until I reach the end,
have the ability to make me empathize so strongly with the characters and make
them feel their anguish and suffering that I always end up with a very intense
literary hangover.
And of course, this was not the exception. What
a form of suffering, what a feeling of impotence, of such great anguish I felt
through several scenes. This book is full of pain, grief, love, suffering,
friendship, strength, sadness, and I could go on and on.
The story of Elliott and Jasmine is so beautiful that it makes my skin crawl, so sad, tender but at the same time so comforting.
The story of Elliott and Jasmine is so beautiful that it makes my skin crawl, so sad, tender but at the same time so comforting.
Elliott is a very complex character who goes
through several stages and suffers a lot in life. He is a tender, lonely man,
who puts on a breastplate to stop feeling or not feel more pain. At the same
time, he is a dedicated boy, who loves music and who plays the saxophone with
passion and creates magic with it. When Brittainy describes him playing, she
transports me so vividly to those scenes that still make me sigh.
Technically I didn’t see him at first— I felt him, felt his music crawl
along my skin. The chords and bars of his saxophone sent chills down my spine.
It sounded magical, the way the notes danced through the air, so hauntingly
beautiful.
his music that healed me when I was young and taught me
what it meant to be beautifully sad… his music that had shown me my way six
years before when I was lost.
Jazz is a beautiful but lonely girl, forced to things that she does not want, that keeps everything for herself and spends her sad life. But nevertheless manages to rebel herself and has an evolution to a strong person capable of fighting for what she wants and for those she wants.
Jazz and Elliott together are so beautiful, I
fell in love with their evolution, their relationship, their moments together,
how each one helped to heal the wounds of the other, the intense and beautiful
process they experienced, they are the perfect complement. Although at certain times I wanted to enter the book, hug
them and never let them go.
“Is hard to be around you sometimes,” he whispered.
“Why’s that?” His eyebrows knit together and he lowered his voice. “Because you
make my heart beat.”
The book itself, and its plot, play a very real and worrying topic and to be honest, very close to my heart. Bullying is something we see every day. But I identified so much with Elliott in his adolescence, he reminded me of wounds I had so guarded that there were moments where I had to stop reading, cry uncontrollably, breathe deeply and calm my heart, touched so sensitive fibers in my soul that make me shudder again.
Now we go to the secondary characters, I deeply
loved TJ, which character more beautiful, more supportive, and delivered to
others, I cried so much with him, I completely fell in love with his way of
seeing the world, his solidarity and unconditional support.
Katie and Laura, Elliott's sister and mother
were also very beautiful characters and determinants in the plot, I also loved
their unconditional support.
And Ray, like not loving him, like I suffered
with him, I loved the support he gave to Jazz at all the time, their
relationship is too beautiful.
The plot of the story took me through ups and
downs, it made me go through so much anguish, pain and suffering that still
squeeze my heart, but it has such beautiful moments, so sweet and tender that
they made me cry with joy. Of course, I loved the theme of music as medicine
for the soul, music as a way to heal wounds.
It wasn’t simply the saxophone that created sounds, but
his soul bled out through each note. TJ made music that could fix any broken
person. He made sounds that were meant to heal the world.
To finish I only have to say that the author has a way of creating really intense stories that reach your soul and mark you. She has the ability to make the characters evolve and transform suffering and anguish into joy and love.
Super recommended, you can not miss it.
Español
Amo, amo todos los libros de
Brittainy. Son mágicos, me transportan a sus historias y no me sueltan hasta a
llegar al final, tienen la capacidad de hacerme empatizar tan fuertemente con
los personajes y hacer sentir sus angustias y sufrimientos que siempre termino
con una resaca literaria muy intensa.
Y por supuesto que esta no fue la
excepción. Que forma de sufrir, que sensación de impotencia, de angustia tan
grande sentí a través de varias escenas. Este libro está lleno de dolor,
pena, amor, sufrimiento, amistad,
fortaleza, tristeza, y podría seguir y seguir.
La historia de Elliott y Jasmine
es tan hermosa que me eriza la piel, tan triste, tierna pero a la vez tan
reconfortante.
Elliott es un personaje muy
complejo que pasa por varias etapas y sufre mucho en la vida. Es un
hombre tierno, solitario, que se pone una coraza para dejar de sentir o
no sentir más dolor. A su vez es un chico entregado, que ama la música y que toca
el saxofón con pasión y crea magia con él. Cuando Brittainy lo describe tocando,
me transporte tan vívidamente a esas escenas que todavía me hacen suspirar.
Jazz es una chica bella pero
solitaria, obligada a cosas que no desea, que guarda todo para sí misma y pasa
su vida triste. Pero sin embargo logra rebelarse y tiene una evolución a una
persona fuerte capaz de luchar por lo que quiere y por los que quiere.
Jazz y Elliott juntos son tan
bellos, me enamoré de su evolución, de su relación, de sus momentos juntos, de
como cada uno ayudó a sanar las heridas del otro, del proceso intenso y hermoso
que vivieron, son el complemento perfecto. Aunque en ciertos momentos quería
entrar en el libro, abrazarlos y nunca soltarlos.
El libro en sí, y su trama, tocan
un tema muy real y preocupante y para ser sincera muy cercano a mi corazón. El
bullying es algo que vemos a diario. Pero yo me identifiqué tanto con Elliott
en su adolescencia, me hizo recordar heridas que tenía tan guardadas que
hubieron momentos donde tuve que dejar de leer, llorar incontrolablemente,
respirar profundamente y calmar mi corazón, tocó fibras tan sensibles en mi
alma que me hacen estremecer de nuevo.
Ahora vamos a los personajes
secundarios, amé profundamente a TJ, que personaje más bello, más solidario, y
entregado a los demás, lloré tanto con él, me enamoré completamente de su forma
de ver el mundo, de su solidaridad y apoyo incondicional.
Katie y Laura, hermana y mamá de Elliott también
fueron unos personajes muy bellos y determinantes en la trama, además amé su
apoyo incondicional.
Y Ray, como no amarlo, como sufrí
con él, me encantó el apoyo que le dio a Jazz en todo momento, su relación es
demasiado bella.
La trama de la historia me llevó
por altos y bajos, me hizo pasar tanta angustia, dolor y sufrimientos que
todavía me estrujan el corazón, pero tiene momentos tan hermosos, tan dulces y
tiernos que me hicieron llorar de alegría. Por supuesto me encantó el tema de
la música como medicina para el alma, la música como forma de sanar heridas.
Para terminar solo me resta decir
que la autora tiene una forma de crear historias realmente intensas, que te
llegan al alma y te marcan. Tiene la capacidad de hacer los personajes
evolucionar y transformar el sufrimiento y la angustia en alegría y amor.
Super recomendado, no se lo
pueden perder.
Excerpt:
By the way, what happened to Todd’s nose?” I asked. “I broke it,” Elliott said matter-of-factly. “What? How? Why?” He shrugged before turning to look out the window. “He called you a bad name.” “What was it?” “It doesn’t matter.” “Eli,” I started. He turned my way and locked his hazel eyes with my browns. “Jazz…” He shook his head. “It wasn’t true.” I swallowed hard, a big part of me certain Todd’s words held some form of truth. Elliott saw it in me—my fear. He kept shaking his head and whispered, “I don’t feel sorry for you. Sometimes you look at me like you think I feel sorry for you, and I want you to know I don’t. I think you’re perfect the way you are.” I quietly laughed at him repeating the words I’d told him earlier. A few tears rolled down my cheeks. “I’m a little messed up.” “I know.” He nodded. “That’s why I like you.” He went back to staring out the window, and I kept staring at him. And there it was. So small, so tiny, so real. Love. It wasn’t love, but it was the beginning of it. I knew I was young, and I knew it was stupid, but in that moment, I began to fall in love with the quiet boy who quietly cared for me. The boy who was scared and still strong. The boy who stood up for me when he was surrounded by reasons not to do such a thing. I hadn’t known much about love. I hadn’t known how it looked, felt, or tasted. I hadn’t known how it moved, how it flowed, but I knew my heart was tight and currently skipping a few beats. I understood the goose bumps covering my arms. I knew this stuttering boy who was sometimes so scared was someone worth loving. He was worth being the first one I gave my heart to. I knew Elliott Adams was love. And I was falling into him so fast.
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