Review: May contain spoilers...but just say no to this book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
This book was wrong on so many levels.  First, What is it with the rash of young adult novels in the first person perspective? Maybe it's just the few books I've read lately, but they come out so disjointed and do not flow through the story the same as a third person story. They're choppy with no smooth flow to them. So I hate that this is a first person book.Second, The beginning started so well, and you had hope for the heroine when she is sent to live with her father. But no, that's when the story shifts. She meets the world's best guy that suddenly turns sexual right off the bat, quickly followed by controlling and abusive. She's strong enough to escape her abusive mother and step father, but can't escape this relationship because the sex is good?! The story I was reading was not hot, the sex scenes were not well developed, and there was nothing that made this guy seem so great to me that he wasn't leave-able. Engaged five minutes after he hit her, and having sex five minutes after another girl leaves his bed...I felt zero sympathy for him, and once she decided to stay when he hit her..first, second, and third time, I felt none for her. Let me be clear, I have sympathy for abused women that can't break free, but she had her eyes wide open..."I would love with him forever, even knowing he may hurt me, but I can't compete with another woman". What is that?! It's ok for him to hit you, choke you, shove you, but not cheat on you?!And then he stalks her and at no time does she tell her parents. This is why girls die people! She was stupid, and while she may have "escaped" the relationship, he is still on the peripheral, doing drivebys and sitting outside her school or home.  Why wouldn't she tell her parents? When she does meet someone new, first date out she sees Seth and purposefully provokes him by kissing the boy she's with. While the author may be implying this is her way of moving on, and showing Seth she's moving on, all I could think is that he's going to catch up to her later and get his revenge. This girl is loose, with sex on the brain and she was not at all a likeable character to me, that at this point I felt she had what was coming to her.