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jugglingpup's review
1.0
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This book was hard to read at first. The characters were not drastically different to start. Once I could tell the characters apart, which only happened after the boys became a part of the story, the book got more interesting. The fact that the three main girls were hard to tell apart until boys were around shows a lack of development of the female characters which is surprising coming from, I’m assuming, a female author.
The most interesting plot line was Jamie’s. She was dating the guy she met last summer, but in the middle of the summer he tells her that they were never dating. She goes wild and breaks into his house and smashes his stuff and hooks up with his friend. Another, clearly, unhealthy depiction of a relationship.
Beth has the classic girl falls for the close guy friend that she never expected to like. Of course they only get together when he gets drunk. Before they get together Beth is super jealous and that is seen as natural. Yet another example of an unhealthy relationship.
Ella has a more interesting plot line that Beth. She is crushing after the guy her older virginal sister gets with. She half tries to steal him, half to get attention and half to get him. She sleeps with him right after she finds out that her sister was thinking about it, but got dumped before she could. The big twist with this one is also expected and show how much a skeeze the guy is.
So this book wasn’t a bad read, but I am getting tired of only seeing unhealthy relationships. There can be flawed relationships, but these are unhealthy ones portrayed as ideal (Beth) or hot (Ella), and that there are different ways to react to a break up (Jamie vs the older sister of Ella).
This book was hard to read at first. The characters were not drastically different to start. Once I could tell the characters apart, which only happened after the boys became a part of the story, the book got more interesting. The fact that the three main girls were hard to tell apart until boys were around shows a lack of development of the female characters which is surprising coming from, I’m assuming, a female author.
The most interesting plot line was Jamie’s. She was dating the guy she met last summer, but in the middle of the summer he tells her that they were never dating. She goes wild and breaks into his house and smashes his stuff and hooks up with his friend. Another, clearly, unhealthy depiction of a relationship.
Beth has the classic girl falls for the close guy friend that she never expected to like. Of course they only get together when he gets drunk. Before they get together Beth is super jealous and that is seen as natural. Yet another example of an unhealthy relationship.
Ella has a more interesting plot line that Beth. She is crushing after the guy her older virginal sister gets with. She half tries to steal him, half to get attention and half to get him. She sleeps with him right after she finds out that her sister was thinking about it, but got dumped before she could. The big twist with this one is also expected and show how much a skeeze the guy is.
So this book wasn’t a bad read, but I am getting tired of only seeing unhealthy relationships. There can be flawed relationships, but these are unhealthy ones portrayed as ideal (Beth) or hot (Ella), and that there are different ways to react to a break up (Jamie vs the older sister of Ella).
rinn4's review
2.0
I read this book in three hours. I didn't really want to read it in the first place because when I got it home from the library and I reread the back it didn't sound as good as i originally thought. I did read it though, well not really I skipped a lot of it in the middle, only choosing the read the parts with Lucas in them since I wanted to figure out what was going on with him. I really hate Hope, so much she is such a bitch, telling him that he should just get over his mothers death, she is so cruel. I thought the idea of the book going backwards would be cool and reading it was ok but I hated how indecisive the ending (or beginning) of the story was, do they end up together? There was no retribution for the evil girl and the perfect couple does not end up together. Now I have read it but I find that I didn't even get the satisfaction of knowing a new story since the story didn't end. I wanted to know what happened in their time but ended up just wasting my own.
tarryncurrentlyreading's review
3.0
The concept of this story was really cool-starting with the end and going backwards to the beginning. But overall, the story just went nowhere. The characters were underdeveloped and I was left completely unfufilled.
twoamreads's review
3.0
I tried to finish it even though the book from the start to 3/4 was pretty typical. I kind of expected the ending to answer all my questions but it just made me more confused. I still like it because it peaked my interest
thisfoxreads's review
2.0
I thought it would be really interesting to write a book backwards--and was excited to see this book written in just that way. Sadly, that was the best part of the book. The characters were annoying so you didn't really empathize with them. The ending (beginning?) was also much too abrupt--no denouement epilogue or anything to wrap it up. They dropped the ball on this one.
lucillemeeps's review
2.0
This story was told back to front, starting with the ending and working back through time to see how it all began. It seemed like an interesting way to write a novel when I first picked it up, but it just didn't really work out the way that I thought it might. The characters felt forced, the climax wasn't that exciting and it just lacked something. There are a lot of stories out there that have a dark hidden secret from the past that is revealed at the end, but they seem to do a more successful job than this story did. I guess this is what I get when I pick up a book for 25 cents at a used book sale.
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