Review: Give it a miss
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2013
*Spoilers ahead*I was looking forward to reading this story because of the positive reviews it had received, unfortunately I was very disappointed. I felt no real affinity for any of the characters, all were unlikeable in some way, but the "heroine" of this tale was so annoyingly written I wanted to smack her at every turn. I kept wondering why two of these characters were even friends, it seemed they didn't even like each other. At least I could somewhat relate to one of them, but found Cassie a very pushy, rude, know-it-all who despite their situation kept "scaring" them with her stories and grabbing them or smarting off.  Denise, ironically the most empathatic character, at least to me, was whining about walking all the time.  Mary, Denise's sister and Cassie's best friend was weak and constantly chose what Cassie told her to do vs. her sister.  James was nasty in his own way, but I didn't find him nearly as annoying as Cassie.  This story reminded me of the old saying  "with friends like these, who needs enemies?"  I also found it strange that a 20 year old college student's best friend was a 17 year old high schooler.  If you don't mind bossy, bitchy, whiny or weak characters then give it a whirl.  I found Cassie so annoying it spoiled the book for me.The book was well written however, and was not fraught with grammatical errors as many I have read have been.  I will give the author kudos for that.