Review: "Love and Pain. You can't have one without the other."
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
I loved Dovey and Cuba in the prequel and I hurt for them in their full story.  WOW!  To be in high school and be dealt the hands they had been dealt is just insane.  First of all, I did not really like that the book jumped a full year after the prequel, after the start of a real love story and then their story ended before it began.  BUT, we get more.  More of their messed up pasts.  More of their horrible choices they had made. And more of the supporting characters that I can't wait to read about....yes Sebastian, but way curious about Spider!This book didn't feel like it read like a high school book.  I felt the same way about Very Bad THings too.  THese rich, spoiled kids are so much more than that. ANd not everyone is rich and spoiled (ahem, Dovey). But it IS high school and we get that background and drama of that while experiencing every messed up thing about these two broken souls.  In the end, it's about love.  It's about sacrifices we make for the ones we care about.  It's about putting other's needs before our own. It's about punishing yourself for every bad decision you've made.  It's about family.  "Life is choices. It's how we go on that makes us who we are."I'm still mad the way Cuba treated Dovey and how things went down between them and in the dramatic fashion, but hey...that's high school.  Still, was disappointed.  But in the end..."I love her, man.  I don't give a s*^t what she did or who she did it with or why she did it or how many times.  I can't...breathe without her."  You stole me heart in the end, Cuba and of course, in a rich, dramatic way."You're a light I need. LIke a thousand...suns."