What happens when the person who damaged you for life...becomes the person you trust the most?
Caleb Becker spent the last year in juvenile detention.
Maggie Armstrong spent the past year in hospitals and physical therapy.
Two teens who were scarred one fateful night are going to have to face their greatest challenge yet-meeting up with each other again.
Okay, so I’ve gone over how to write this review a dozen times in my head and I can’t. I can’t because I know I will give away the ending. And I’ve tried revising it like four times. It still hasn’t changed anything.
I have to! I have to rant and rave! I can’t keep it in. I’m trying, I really am.
Sigh.
This book was/is amazing! I literally devoured it, and when I say that I mean I started reading it this afternoon around 2, had to put it down and then picked it back up again this evening and finished it right before 1 in the morning. I think it was about 4 hours, maybe 4 1/2. It was that good.
I just needed to figure these people out. Figure out what happened. Make sure they got through all the crap.The romance between the two main character’s was believable, there were times throughout the book where, even though I really liked Caleb and Maggie, I hated them both for brief moments because of things they did or things they said, or didn’t say.
Simone writes beautifully and she keeps you engaged the whole time. Well, most of the time, I don’t think I was so engaged when the football games were on, or when the cheerleaders showed off their cheer. No offense to the cheerleaders out there. I think it was more the fact that they were attention seekers.
Okay, I really can’t keep it in.
I know it’s horrible of me that I’m going to spoil it for some of you. I just have to tell someone.
No! I shouldn’t.
My heart hurts.
I can’t, I just can’t keep it in, so if you haven’t read this book don’t read beyond me saying that it is a book I highly recommend. Simone’s writing style is real and raw and emotional and you are sucked into these characters lives and you feel like you are there.
That being said, I loved this book, no I hated it, no I loved it, (spoiler ahead, seriously stop reading if you haven’t read this book)
Stop now...
I hated the ending. Like I said earlier it made my heart hurt. Oh my gosh how my heart just aches. Which if you think about it to me is the sign of greatness. That I have actual physical pain about this book and that I ruminated on it for days afterwards. I even told my husband that this book really made me sad. He’s not a reader so I don’t usually share my feelings about books I’m reading cause I know it will be hard to grasp.
I’m sorry Simone, I really love your books and I really admire your writing style and your stories and everything but I hate you for ending this book this way.
There, I’ve said it.
The characters are believable, I hated Kendra, really liked Maggie and Caleb. Mrs. Reynolds was pretty cool too.
The storyline was a good one with a twist I didn’t see coming and I’m usually pretty good at figuring them out beforehand.
Seriously, it’s now morning and I just put my daughter back to sleep and it seems like every time I’ve woken up this book has been with me.
Kudos to you Ms. Elkeles.
Now, I usually try and give you at least one quote from the book. Something to wet your appetite (sometimes I give you more)
I find her taking lemons out of the refrigerator. I watch as she cuts and squeezes them into a pitcher.
“Are you following me?” she asks, but doesn’t meet my gaze.
“Yeah,” I say.
“Why?”
“Honestly?”
She looks at me, her eyebrows raised.
I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
“You’re where I want to be.”
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