Say it with me: INCEST. Incest Incest Incest. If that makes you squeamish, don't read this book. You've been warned. 
 I'm unsure how to rate FORBIDDEN. Tabitha Suzuma does a stupendous job investing you emotionally with her characters Lochan and Maya Whitely. Growing up hasn't been easy on them; at 17 and 16 years old, respectively, they've raised their 3 younger siblings while their absentee mother goes on drinking and boyfriend binges. Suzuma tells us all of this from shifting 1st-person perspectives and your heart, despite the obvious blooming incestuous relationship, hurts for them, longs for them. Can you blame them when, after spending most of their lives as partners rather than siblings, they fall in love? 
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