Review: NOT YOUR EVERY DAY STUDENT/TEACHER ROMANCE!  FAVORITE OF THE YEAR!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
"I want to be yours, I want you to be mind, and I hate that we can't be us.  Because I think we were meant to be us."This is a brilliantly, bittersweet book that will take your breath away.I have never laughed and cried so much in one sitting. This book was full of grief and pain and at the same time I grinned and laughed with every other turn of the page.  It gave my heart whiplash!Every word I could use to describe this book would contradict another aspect of the story - dark, yet happy; thrilling, yet depressing;  heartbreaking, yet funny; simple, yet complex; familiar, yet refreshing... this book is all of these things, but most importantly it is memorable, powerful, and moving.I secretly enjoy student/teacher romances. Ok, it's not a secret...  I love them.  That being said, this book is so much more than just a student/teacher romance.  There are so many layers that are slowly pulled back as the story moves forward.  By itself it was absolutely amazing, but the best part of this book was the characters.  Our main two characters, Ashlyn and Daniel, really touched my heart.  They were two broken people that had suffered so much, and found solace and healing in each other forming an unbreakable bond.  The relationship between Ashlyn and Daniel was a rare, honest love, and I ached for them and the circumstances that made their relationship wrong.  All of the characters had so much depth, and were written so well that I felt they were a part of me.  They were quirky, relatable, and impossible not to fall in love with... even the secondary characters added important elements to this story as they broke through the pages to tell their own story.I don't want to compare Brittainy C. Cherry to anyone else because her writing style and book are unique in their own right.  What I will say is that I would recommend this book to EVERYONE, but I think it will most definitely appeal to fans of Colleen Hoover, Jessica Park, Amy Harmon, or The Perks of Being A Wallflower (the movie, not the book - I haven't read it).