Review: A good book, but I have mixed feelings about the heroine.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
Everything about this book gave me mixed feelings. The story-line was unnecessarily convoluted with a history that was 9 years past. There was a confusing ex-girlfriend whose part in the story, confused me as to whether Deck was really as intelligent as we were told he was. Emmy too was all mixed-up in this and did not come out well at all, in that supposed tight friendship with his ex. The ex-girlfriend herself seemed to not be completely out of the picture either. But I soon realized that all of this was to highlight Emmy's recovery from something terrible that happened to her and her family as a child. Present-day Deck was everything that you could want, as a supportive, yet a struggling lover to Emmy and showed her that he would be there for her and fight for her to the end. That part was sweet. I think what confuses me most about KA's most recent books, is that the characters she creates and situations and troubles that they have, are very much rooted in reality, with infidelity, poverty, addiction, crime, etc. featuring strongly as themes  running parallel with the romance. At the same time, there is a sense that the characters themselves, certainly the heroes are larger-than-life and heroic beyond normal. This is hard to reconcile in a story such as this because the characters themselves are so imperfect they struggle to be fantastic yet normal at the same time. I will not read this book again, there are many better KA books to re-read, but overall, I am glad I read Deck's story, but I am also glad it is over.