outside reading 2

Paradise Lost
By: Kate Brian

For my outside reading this week I read a new book called Paradise Lost by Kate Brain. This book is the 9th book in the series of the Private novels. In this book Reed Brennan is on vacation trying to forget everything that had happened to her over the past year. Reed finally starts having a good time until everything she got away from comes back to her and she is faced with the feeling that she is being watched. Everyone tells Reed she is just being paranoid and only thinks that because that is what happened to her last year so Reed tells herself that they are right and shes just being crazy. A few days later Reed has the same feeling and again she pushes it aside. I think this book is a perfect example of someone overcoming struggle because no one has been through as much in one year as Reed Brennan has, and managed to overcome it all. I think in other texts, the characters are faced with predictable challenges and it is obvious that they are going to overcome it but this book shows someone really struggling just to make it through one day at a time.

Brian, Kate. "Paradise Lost." New York: Simon Pulse, 2009. 5 February, 2009.