Review: 1.5 STARS...REALLY UNLIKABLE CHARACTERS
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
Eighteen year old Alex meets twenty year old Brandon at a masked ball.  Both are wearing masks, they flirt and then they go outside for some air and end up having a sexual encounter.  Neither one bothers to introduce themselves, so they have no idea who the other one is.  Gross.Alex shares her college apartment with Alyssa, Ryan and Neil, all of whom are over 21.  They are all good friends.  Turns out, Ryan and Neil are friends of Brandon's and Alex recognizes him by his eyes (of course they are the most amazing blue eyes on the planet).  Brandon apparently has a tortured soul (and possibly multiple personalities), as he's constantly giving Alex dark looks, grief-stricken glances and painful stares.  He wants Alex.  He hates Alex.  He thinks Alex is beautiful.  He stalks Alex.  He runs away from Alex.  He lies to Alex.  He wants Alex...repeat, repeat, ad nauseam!  About the tenth times he lies to her, I lose any sliver of sympathy for Alex.  Grow a spine and find a normal guy!  Just because he fingers you to your first orgasm doesn't mean he's your soul mate!Alex wasn't just spineless and stupid, she was also annoying and prone to extreme overreactions.  She knows Brandon's a jerk and vows never to speak to him again (after the hundredth time he treats her like crap), but in the next breath she is back to loving him and making excuses for him.  Her excessive crying really grates on the nerves as well.Alyssa was a poor excuse for a BFF, and almost every time she opened her mouth I cringed.The book ends in a cliffhanger, and a truly eye roll worthy one at that.  I saw it coming a mile away.  There is another book out, but there is no way I can read another page about these characters without wanting to stab myself in the eye.  This book had a lot of unnecessary filler and the next book says it's only 184 pages, so this easily should have been one book.