Review: 2.5 STARS...It kind of fell apart in the second half
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
***************************************POSSIBLE SPOILERS***********************************This book was quite a roller coaster ride.  Every bad thing that could happen to Cara, did.  I really felt for Cara in the first half of the book, all these horrible things happened to her and her parents were pretty awful.  At one point they put her in a mental hospital just because she was out all night with her boyfriend.  She meets James, a med school student, while there and he becomes central to the book later on.  Cara manages to move past being raped by her father's law partner, being nearly raped and beaten by a drug dealer and the death of her father (who she reconciles with before he dies).  She's nearly ready to graduate college when James walks back into her life.  This time there is more than friendship in his eyes and she feels the same way.  They fall in love and are really happy and looking forward to their future.Cara gets attacked again, by a deranged doctor, and miscarries the baby she hadn't yet told James about.  She is nearly beaten to death and spends 10 days in a coma.  James is determined to help her though it, he loves her no matter what and wants to marry her.  This is when the book kind of falls apart for me.  Cara dumps James (I guess not caring about his feelings, or even trying to talk things through with him) and runs to Utah where she hooks up with a drug lord (Micah) and marries him.  He's abusive, she's scared to leave, but not too scared to have an affair with his bodyguard Jerry (and get pregnant and have Micah believe it's his).  At this point, Cara has made so many stupid life choices it's really hard to feel sorry for her.  She does finally get away from Micah (but I won't spoil that spectacularly cheesy B movie scene, not sure I could do it justice) and start to live a normal life.The worst part is the ending (which I agree with other reviewers is cut way too short), where James comes back in the picture.  Jerry (who faked his death) goes to see Cara and the baby and then pays a visit to James to tell him to go back to Cara and raise his son with her.  WHAT????  The worst part is, James actually listens to him!  Not only that, he feels bad for not being there for Cara, like he let her down.  I hoped James had moved on, he deserved better than Cara.  I at least wanted James to get an apology from Cara, but none came, it was just "kiss me".  Huh?I can only suspend my disbelief so much.  In the authors note at the end, she claims it's based on true events.  Cara just seemed like a perpetual victim and after awhile my sympathy was in short supply.