Review: "... and kissed him the way I suddenly knew I always wanted to."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
It's clever, you know, to give us a taste of Pete's point of view while imparting important things about both he and Ash in the prologue of this book. In a short amount of time, I already had a good idea of how Pete sees things and feels about stuff. When I first read it, I was skeptical: prologues of this particular setting don't always work. I was wrong. This one worked. As I said: clever.After this, we're experiencing everything from Ash's point of view (until part two, that is), but since we get such a good taste of Pete from the prologue, I never felt like I was missing something the rest of the way.Clever.Meanwhile..."Pete?""Yeah?""Keep talking."And that's when it happened. That's when my heart lost hold of its rhythm and I fell in love with Pete and Ash. What quickly followed was this thought: this is one of the best and now one of my favorite stories about two people falling in love. Ever. Of any genre, any time period, ever. Pete and Ash came to life in 3-D, literally walking up from and off of the page to me. When fiction crosses that blurry, ever-moving line between "I'm reading a story" and "I'm reading about someone's life here", it's heady, putting me in a contented haze.This is actually why this review won't be that long. At about the halfway point, I stopped taking notes and just read. I didn't want to do anything else, no pen scratching on paper, no background noises, no food or drink. Yes, it was that 'serious'. I only wanted to be in this story and that's what I did.The writing is smooth, the dialogue works, supporting characters are meaningful and prove their importance to the story, as well as to Pete and Ash.I love this book. I highly recommend this book. When you're finished with this book, go on and read "Marked", which is the "1.5" to this book. Then do as I'm going to do as soon as I finish typing this: read "Rare" and then "Freed".