I remember the lights.
I remember I wanted to photograph them, the way the red and blue splashed across his cold, emotionless face. But I knew even if my feet could move from the place where they had cemented themselves to the ground and I could run for my camera, I wouldn’t be able to capture that moment.
I had trusted him, I had loved him, and even though my body had changed that summer, he’d made sure to help me hold on to who I was inside, regardless of how the exterior altered.
But then everything changed.
He stole my innocence. He scarred my heart. He took everything I thought I knew about my life and fast-pitched it out the window, shattering the glass that held my world together in the process.
I remember the lights.
The passionate, desperate, hot strikes of red. The harsh, cruel, icy bolts of blue.
They symbolized everything I endured that summer.
And everything I would never face again.
Ok. So I will probably be in the minority where I wasn’t in love with this book. I enjoyed reading this book. But where I can’t love it is the blurb doesn’t exactly fit the whole nature of this book. I was expecting a totally different story than what I got.
Kandi has always written great stories. Her plot lines are always interesting and keep you glued to your seat. Her characters are always intriguing and you can relate to them. And Kandi delivered this in Weightless. However, again I felt a little mislead with blurb.
Natalie is a girl a lot of us could probably relate to you in many ways. She struggles with her weight but has never let that hold her back. She’s always accepted her looks and has been comfortable with it.
Rhodes I am torn on. I had a harder time connecting to him because he seemed so wish washy. He’s a kid from the other side of the tracks, had run-ins with the law and grew up in foster homes. I kind of the got the feeling that Kandi was trying to make him seem like the dangerous type but when you are working on at the swanky country club, and no is afraid of you, it’s hard to keep that vibe going. So yea – he’s meh for me.
Rhodes becomes Natalie’s trainer at the gym. They slowly become friends and Natalie gets him to open up little by little. The majority of the book is watching their relationship develop, which I absolutely loved. Kandi wrote this portion of the book flawlessly. It’s why the book gets the 3.5 stars! These two know how to pull each other out from behind their walls. And watching them grow not just together but individually was amazing.
There’s another part to this story, which I won’t reveal, that I felt could have been more developed and made the book even better. This is where I was let down with the book. I felt the ending was too rushed and this portion of the plot was glazed over way too much. The blurb is based on this portion of the book and it only occupies a small part of the book – it’s misleading when the majority of the book is based on something else completely.
With that being said, the book is written beautifully and I loved it. I wish I could explain all the thoughts going on in my head. It’s almost like there was two different plots going on. The one was well developed and thought it, while the one that’s based on the blurb was glossed over and made not so important in the book. This is where I find myself struggling to rate this book higher.
Kandi Steiner is a Creative Writing and Advertising/Public Relations graduate from the University of Central Florida living in Tampa with her husband. Kandi works full time as a social media specialist, but also works part time as a Zumba fitness instructor and blackjack dealer.
Kandi started writing back in the 4th grade after reading the first Harry Potter installment. In 6th grade, she wrote and edited her own newspaper and distributed to her classmates. Eventually, the principal caught on and the newspaper was quickly halted, though Kandi tried fighting for her “freedom of press.” She took particular interest in writing romance after college, as she has always been a die hard hopeless romantic (like most girls brought up on Disney movies).
When Kandi isn’t working or writing, you can find her reading books of all kinds, talking with her extremely vocal cat, and spending time with her friends and family. She enjoys beach days, movie marathons, live music, craft beer and sweet wine – not necessarily in that order.
