Half Dead

Title: Half Dead
Author: santi santi
Type: Fan Fiction
Genre: Drama | Teen
Rating: PG-13

A teenage boy's entire teenage years are spent trying to get laid. The sad, pathetic, smart boys, at least. I wouldn't know, really, but I've seen my share of lifetime movies. I've read books, I've Googled certain things.

santi santi has an edge to her writing that makes this story seem like a peek into the mind of the disturbed. It is haunting, melancholic and strangely enough, cute. Twenty-one chapters long and completed, Half Dead follows the story of Violet and her blooming relationship with 'that stupid boy' Frank Iero.

Violet is self-destructive, mentally unstable and mute. She suffers daily at the hands of bullies (which, I swear, you'll learn to hate the living daylights of by the end of the story) and has no friends. Her parents don’t understand her, although you can see that they try and her therapists make things worse. She isn't angsty or the usual angry-at-the-world stock character, though. She's just... well, she's just her.

Trust isn't something that Violet has plenty of, so when sixteen-year-old Frank Iero waltzes, smiling, into her life (via an awkward bus stop introduction, mind you), she's momentarily dazed. How is she to handle the unwanted attentions of a boy who intrigues and yet repels her in the same breath?

Skip forward a few chapters and Violet gains a friend. No, that doesn’t seem right. Violet doesn’t do friends. An ally, it is then. An ally who quite literally saves her life. It is later, much later, that you can see this damaged, hurt girl start to heal.

The ending is unexpected. There is happiness, then sadness and what pains me the most about this story is that it’s real. It’s there. It mimics exactly that life doesn’t always turn out happily ever after with roses and cherries to boot.

The best bit about it all? It isn’t entirely a romance, although some may argue that. There are so many other aspects about this story that any drama-loving, tragedy-pumping reader will like.