Review: Kept me guessing!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
When Josie and Tristan see each other after years apart, their worlds completely shift. Their reunion also unleashes a huge can of worms as both of their pasts come back in full force, bringing them together and tearing them apart in ways neither could ever imagine. I enjoyed the storyline a lot. It constantly kept me guessing and wondering what was going to happen next and as soon as I thought I had things figured out, a new twist would pop up. I loved Tristan and his determination to help Josie piece together her past, while accepting the damaged girl she had become.I'm not a big fan of books written in the third person, only because I feel limited in my ability to really understand the characters' emotions and inner dialogues. This book did a good job of conveying most of the necessary subtext, sometimes I just didn't 100% connect with where the characters were coming from because I had no idea what they were thinking. Since the book was in third person, we did get to see what was "going on behind the scenes." Instead of just seeing things from the main character's POV, we got to see how the supporting characters were playing into the story and how their pasts were beginning to catch up with them, even before they had a clue. Being able to see the other characters away from Josie and Tristan was essential to piecing together the storyline. Alex and Monica seemed random at first, but as the story unfolded, the necessity of knowing their histories with Josie and bits of their personal lives became apparent in the last half of the book and was essential in its conclusion.Overall, I really enjoyed the emotional ride this book took me on and it kept me intrigued as I tried to solve the mystery of Josie's past. If you like characters whose lives are intertwined in ways you won't see coming and a plot with twists and turns up to the end, then you'll enjoy this book.