Chasing Destiny

Article by: K. Solomon

Dickey, Eric Jerome. Chasing Destiny. Penguin, Ireland 2006

Heart

I borrowed the book Chasing Destiny, from my younger cousin. It is a fast pace, suspenseful, and a little dramatic of a book. Typically I like mysteries however I wanted to try a new genre.

The book is about a teenage girl named Destiny whose parents are getting a divorce. Her father is dating someone else however her mother is still trying to get their marriage to work. Destiny gets sick of her parents so she runs away for a night, she ends up getting drugged and raped. Then she comes back for her revenge on the people who drugged and raped her. The whole time the girl her father has been dating she finds out is pregnant and Destiny’s mom makes her think she is going to ruin her dad and daughter relationship she has with her dad.

The style of the book interests me because it is very fast pace and always leaves you hanging at the end of every chapter. The chapters are somewhat long but read fast, there are a few short chapters but it all goes by fast.

To me the message of the book I get is don’t try to run away from your problems, you can’t do it. They just come back twice as rough later down the line. Destiny tries to run away from her problems twice in the book, and all it does is mess her life up more. Not only with her personally, but with her friends and family, its like she doesn’t care about herself or others around her.

My over all opinion was the book was very interesting, I never knew what was going to happen next. The detail is so much where I felt in the story, it is a very well written overall great book.