Review: It wasn't bad!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
I had to think for a few days about what I really wanted to say about this book. I would like to tell the author to tone down the flowery language. Teenagers don't talk that way-heck, I don't think anyone does. And some of the language was way over the top-the misuse of many many words was rampant. "HIs iPod engulfed his arm." Good gracious, I think he'd better get the heck away from that thing before it's too late! BUT having said all of that, I admit-I couldn't put the thing down all weekend. I won't make any of the obvious statements-read Twilight much? But honestly, I do have a thing for good looking, dark and brooding male characters. I married a brooding male character-they are my weakness. I like Kellan. But I also liked Mike. I liked Mike a lot. I felt so sorry for the guy and found myself completely disgusted with Lexi for the way she was treating him (hey, I really dig this other guy, but I'll make out with you anyway). She really needed to break up with him and not lead him on-but, they are teenagers, so what the heck? Maybe that is the way she would have treated him. I can't expect any of them to do the mature thing. There did need to be a convenient way to get rid of Mike and I wondered how the author was going to handle that. The complete 180 of his personality was incredible. No way, I thought. He went from a sweet loving kid to being willing to see her die before someone else would have her. But my greatest disappointment was in Lexi herself. She didn't balk at spending what, for most of us, would have been 6 month's worth of mortgage payments on a new wardrobe, but when she found out that donated blood from the blood bank would cost her (very wealthy) family $1400 a month, she decides it would be more economical to start attacking joggers in the park. The cost was prohibitive. And her parents thought this was fine, too. Kellan went along to make sure she didn't kill the guy, so I guess that was supposed to make it ok. I actually think this author has real potential. She needs to listen honestly to everything said in all of the reviews and take that imagination of hers and the skill she really does have and work it into the rest of her books.