Review: Absolutely brilliant! It shows how everyone deals with grief differently.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
16 year old Cassie's summer has plain and simply turned to s***.She has been in love with Nick since she first saw him years ago. He came back from a party wit pink lipgloss that wasn't her on his face.Then dumped her via text message...add to that she has to work with him at her Mum's restaurant all the time, being the "good girl" she is she covers for him when he has dates and that he is the worst waiter ever.then on top of that..she find out the pink lip gloss belongs to her best friend Priya.She cuts ties with both of them...While brooding at the Marina she meets the 23 year old college student R.D. Thy strike up a fast friendship. He is forever telling her that he is no good for her, and she is a good girl.One day at the restaurant Cassie's Mum faints. It finally comes out in the open that Cassie's Mum has cancer and she isn't doing well, her Aunt comes to help their Mum with Cassie and Addie.Cassie and R.d start spending a lot of time together, just talking, sailing, he really listens to Cassie and she has no one else to talk too anymore.Soon things turn serious. They have to stay a secret. No one can know.but secrets and lies can't be kept forever, can they?R.D has to go back to mainland for a week for school, when he returns EVERYTHING is different. but why?!MY HONEST OPINIONAbsolutely brilliant! It shows how everyone deals with grief differently.While this sounds like a love story, it is in a way, but it is more. It is about Love, betrayal, deceit, adultery, loss, family, forgiveness and more.Cassie goes from being the "good girl" to just becoming Cassie. She becomes a stronger person over the summer even though so much s*** happens to her.Addie was a great secondary character and a super smart kid.It tears at your heartstrings and pulls you in deeply to the story. When your up you up when your down you are DOWN.Great book I will be checking out the Author's other stuff.