Review: 2-3 stars. Caught in the middle.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
Where do I start? I thought this book was going to be something totally differen't from what it was. My hopes were too high and my expectations were not met. I was very disappointed with this book. I loved the start of this book. The concept I loved. I have read it in other books, but I love the story line. Right off the bat you can tell she was meant to be with Brooks. But when they got older he was more mean to her and pushed her away and into the arms of his twin brother Branch. Branch was a complete douche-canoe and I didn't like him very much. He was arrogant and nothing like Brooks. I found myself saying many times, why don't you just tell Brooks how you feel? I get why they didn't tell each other how they felt, clearly there needs to be a story, but come on. I loved Katy the start of this book. But as time and the book went on, I started really not liking her. She had the Kiera effect. The Kiera from Thoughtless. At first I thought she was amazing and strong and loved her. Then her character slowly disintegrated. She became whiny, annoying, selfish and I just could NOT stand her by the end of the book. Brooks, I loved him. He was the best part of this book. He always took care of Katy and he pushed away his own needs and wants for her to be happy and let his brother "win" he was so sweet and patient with Katy and she totally did not deserve him or deserve the crap she continually put him through. But on the night of Katy and Branch's wedding, all stops were pulled and he had to let her know how he felt. They ended up sleeping together and were going to run away together. But Katy couldn't face what she had done to her family. So she ran , far far away in some little hick town. She meets some new friends that you can just tell s*** will go wrong with. She learns she is pregnant with Brooks baby and decides to keep it from everyone and keep it. She marries a friend in order to get some financial help and benefits. Some time goes by and Bobby starts to become abusive * shocker *  a bunch of crap happens between and anyways her and Brooks start writing letters back and forth and he comes to find her and see's her with a husband and child and decides to leave them be. She learns he really might not be dead and she goes to make sure he isn't and then spills the beans that Brooklyn is actually his and they fight and he comes by to spend time with his daughter and all hell breaks loose with Bobby and Brooks comes to the rescue and yada yada yada. A lot of this was painful, so much stuff was not needed, this book was TOO long and so many things were unnecessary and not needed and there were SOOO many discrepancies in the story! one momeny she did not have a restraining order on him then she did and that was never told, there were SOO many little things like that that changed the story line and time line and WTF was going on. Sigh...if this story was like 100 pages or so shorter and stuff was better, I would of LOVED it!! but sadly, a HUGE disappointment. And at 90% of the book Brooks mother drops the biggest bomb ever and I'm sitting here already annoyed thinking WHY in the f*** was that needed? how does THAT make them fight for their relationship or make anything better? because they still fought and she still changed her mind 5 times before they got together FINALLY for real. Ugh, and then life went on and they were all a happy little family. I get stories are stories and fiction, but have some realisticness to it PLEASE. If I was Katy, I would of kicked her a$$ three ways from Sunday. And when brooks told his parents about her sex noises? ummmm who would do that? LOL... and the whole Branch and not being able to have kids. His family says you know the thing where semen comes outta LOL. Ummm he had a medical condition and you think his family would know what it was and the use of it was very childish. I would expect more from a writer to at least attempt to know what you are talking about if going to write about it. Other wise, what is the point? again, I get it's fiction...but come on.. also there were a lot of errors and things that were capitalized that were not needed and etc, but that doesn't really take away from the story, they weren't overpowering, just wanted to add it in there also.Sigh, over all the story line was good. I loved Brooks and it had so much potential. But sadly, huge disappointment and fell very very flat. I do not understand all the 5 star ratings. Everyone enjoys different things and that is FINE, but I do not get how people can let stuff like that fly. I did love the ending though and the surprise he gave her, I had always hoped something like that would of happened. The ending was probably my favorite part. Some parts I enjoyed and most parts I did not. You can make up your mind for yourself. But I would not recommend this story to anyone. Especially at full price."Fine. If it has to be that way, kiss me goodbye. Kiss me for all the years we've lost and all the ones we'll never have together. Kiss me and make me forget that every moment without you in my life crushes me.""Don't be scared, Kat. If you fall, I'll catch you. I always have and I always will. Except, this time I'm never going to let you go."I think we were around ten and we'd all three been up in the tree house playing. You had those Barbie's up there and Branch kept throwing them out and making you climb down and get them. About the third time he did it, I grabbed his arm and yanked it until he cried. I remember him running to tell on me and when Mom asked me why I did it, I looked right up at her and said 'because I love her'. <<<< best part of the book. Brooks is amazing and this made me cry, loved it. Love how much he loved her.