Review: Loved the story, but the writing style didn't work for me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2013
When I saw all of the advertising on Twitter and Facebook for this book, I knew that I was going to love the story. Evie was raised as an upper-class New Yorker, and she is engaged to a man that she once loved but now doesn't feel the same for him. However, her family is depending on her to be with him because he is upper-class like them and will provide for her the lifestyle she is used to. When she meets William at school, her life course changes. She falls in love with him, a lower-class boy from Staten Island, and she has to decide how much she is willing to give up to be with him.I did love the story. I often felt sympathy for Everleigh and for the situation that she found herself in. I thought that William was adorable, and it was nice to read about a character who lives in NY but doesn't have everything magically work out for them. William was painted as a hard worker, and I appreciated that. I loved watching the relationship develop between the two.A couple of things that didn't work for me: the advertisement for the novel says that Evie had no intention of deceiving anyone, and this is clearly not the case as she starts an affair and omits the fact that she is engaged. That is deceptive, even if her motives are understandable. This isn't a huge issue, just something that irked me. The ending also happened too fast for my liking. I know the author was just trying to update the reader on what was to come, but it felt really rushed and unnecessary to me.The biggest problem I had was that the writing style just didn't work for me. This is strictly a personal preference. The author switched the point of view nearly every paragraph, and that just didn't work for me. I do like to read novels that switch POVs, but the way it was executed in this novel did not suit me as a reader.I did enjoy the story and would possibly read other books by this author after downloading a sample to check the writing style. I'm not sure that I would read this one again just because the style didn't work for me personally, but I would recommend the book to others.