Review: Much better than what I expected!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
What an amazing book! I really needed it after a book that was a disappointment and made me feel near to nothing. This book filled me with so many emotions it's hard to tell you every one of them. I wanted to cry a few times, I wanted to scream at the characters for their behaviors, I wanted to throw myself in the arms of Landon and kiss him senseless and being the one saying "Yes!" to him in Las Vegas. I wanted to punch Gabe in the face for treating Violet like crap most of the time. I wanted to slap Violet a few times for being silly. I wanted to torture Cameron for what he'd done.The story was breathtaking and I couldn't stop reading. It only needed a few pages and I was hooked. I kept turning the pages, eager to know what happened in the past, what would happen in the near future, which guy Violet would end up with, what secrets she kept, what dirty secrets Alicia was hiding behind her fake smiles. Oh, I so hated Alicia! Made my stomach sick. Like Cameron made my skin crawl with anger and disgust.I liked Violet and it was so easy to connect to her, and feel like I actually was having her feelings and emotions.I also liked a lot Violet's two girlfriends, Kim and Betsy, and they even cracked me up. There was a scene where they were convincing her to go out with them (when she went out dressed up as a tiger) that made me burst out laughing. It was so funny.The story was so good, painful, hot, sad, passionate, frustrating, and it was so clear Violet and Gabe loved each other a lot but there was something (and someone) keeping them apart. For how much I loved Landon (and believe me, I loved him! He was just too sweet and wonderful and sexy for his own good! Hard to resist his yumminess!) I could see clearly as the sunlight that Violet was meant to be loving Gabe more than anyone else in the world, for all her life. I just wasn't sure about Gabe's feelings for her until she sent him her old journal to read. After that he acted so stupid, he was such a jerk that I wanted to punch the light out of him! He made me so angry and annoyed me so much with his behavior that I almost got a stomachache. He hurt Violet deeply.The ending though... Ah, it was so cute! I almost cried! And appreciated Gabe's point of view in the epilogue.I liked this book very, very much! And I even liked the aknowledgments.I sure as Hell will check other works by this author.