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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
I really liked this book...it is an emotional roller coaster but in the end I was completely satisfied with the ending. I laughed, cried and got angry multiple times throughout this story. Normally I don't let books affect me so much, but this one did. Talk about getting "sucked in". The love triangle in this book is like no other. You really get attached to the charachters since Molly does an amazing job of developing all of them. I agree with other reviewers that this is a mix between "Beautiful Disaster" and "Thoughtless/Effortless". If you like those then you will love this book. Highly Recommend!
If you like love triangle books that rip your heart out, stomp on it, then put it all back together at the 50% point followed by chapters of epilogue material where you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop but it never does.... THIS is your book! Harper is annoying and although her upbringing makes many excuses for her to be so naive it still irks me. The guys are too nice and forgiving, everyone is too in touch with their need to make others happy. I just can't. If this wasn't a book club book I would have given up on it quite a few times.
I liked this book way better than From Ashes. I could at least tolerate the characters. Although, I thought that Harper growing up being a military brat would have been more of a strong force. She was kind of flighty and I did not like that she bad all sides with the guys. Being that Harper was having her first relationship, I thought she would have not wanted it to end up in a love triangle. To be honest, I did not care for either guy in the beginning. I thought Brandon was ok . He was nice and I thought that Harper did not treat Brandon as fairly as she should have. The sparks just weren't there at explosively as they were between Harper and Chase. This is because the author was pushing for Harper and Chase to be together. However, Chase was mean to begin with. He was too much of a womanizer that I did not see him as a good guy for Harper. However, he did slowly win me over. Only than to have the author toss a huge bomb in the middle of the story. The ending while it was nice, I actually would have preferred if the author had just let Harper have a happen ending without another guy in her life.
JFC. What a pile of hot garbage. Was recommended as a non-typical, non-formulaic romance. Couldn't get past the NLOG (not like other girls) bullshit and slut shaming. And FFS, if I have to read any more about characters who are sooooo pretty but they just don't know it, and just don't care...
Hey romance authors, ever consider writing characters who resemble actual adult women? NOT A FAN.
Hey romance authors, ever consider writing characters who resemble actual adult women? NOT A FAN.
This book has lots to offer: a smart plot, a triangular shredding of hearts, and a touching collection of strangers who become so familiar that they form an endearingly tight family.
The downfall of this tragic story rests solely on the shoulders of Harper, the weak female lead, and the cruelty she inflicts with her naivety. For all the mistakes she makes--sharing her boyfriend's bed while sleeping with his roommate, avoiding accountability with the guy she slept with, running away for two days from the guy who's benevolently forgiven her unforgivable betrayal--these passive behaviors can be overlooked if she has some redeeming quality to make up for it. But I couldn't find anything likable about her. Yet when she walks into a room, men fall at her feet. It's mind-boggling.
Then there's the event that resolves the plot's core conflict. There's an easy and shocking way out of this love triangle and McAdams takes it. It's a classic example of deus ex machina. The convenience of it is a bitter pill, one you will chew on for the remainder of the book.
The story resolves itself 65% in, stakes settled, mission accomplished. So reading the remaining 35% of the book, which is just an anticlimax of wrapping up loose ends, draws out like one long gratuitous epilogue. Boring!
Still, the daring nature of the climax is entrancing. I read the first half in one sitting and would recommend for that reason alone.
Note: While the characters are college age, this is not YA. The number of sex scenes compares to an adult romance novel.
The downfall of this tragic story rests solely on the shoulders of Harper, the weak female lead, and the cruelty she inflicts with her naivety. For all the mistakes she makes--sharing her boyfriend's bed while sleeping with his roommate, avoiding accountability with the guy she slept with, running away for two days from the guy who's benevolently forgiven her unforgivable betrayal--these passive behaviors can be overlooked if she has some redeeming quality to make up for it. But I couldn't find anything likable about her. Yet when she walks into a room, men fall at her feet. It's mind-boggling.
Then there's the event that resolves the plot's core conflict. There's an easy and shocking way out of this love triangle and McAdams takes it. It's a classic example of deus ex machina. The convenience of it is a bitter pill, one you will chew on for the remainder of the book.
The story resolves itself 65% in, stakes settled, mission accomplished. So reading the remaining 35% of the book, which is just an anticlimax of wrapping up loose ends, draws out like one long gratuitous epilogue. Boring!
Still, the daring nature of the climax is entrancing. I read the first half in one sitting and would recommend for that reason alone.
Note: While the characters are college age, this is not YA. The number of sex scenes compares to an adult romance novel.
The base plot of this book is a typical love triangle, the passion between the characters is what made it enjoyable. There were some instances where the story jumped large amounts of time, and this happened often. Some important events you think would be described in detail were briefly mentioned.
This book broke my heart and then put it back together again. I loved it. I truly have not cried that hard or become that emotionally invested in fictional characters in a long time. It really was an emotional roller-coaster.
Read this book! But just make sure you have tissues and chocolate close by.
Read this book! But just make sure you have tissues and chocolate close by.
I don't normally. Write a review unless a book either blows my mind unfortunately. This book blew my mind in all the wrong ways, I normally have 3 star rule but I couldn't give it even that I felt as if I read two book in one and not in a good way like there was two authors and the ideas collided. I love emotional reads I do so it wasn't even that they killed of a main character but he way they did it and then the way the story continued afterwards, people are saying it's like reality not everyone gets a happy ever after but I feel like chase got blanked ASAP I mean do u move on from your dead boyfriend back to your ex within a couple of months !?!? I felt she didn't love chase which broke my heart because I did . The story line alone didn't just annoy me but the timing it was sloppy at times far to dragged out and other times so rushed I felt the ending came together to nice. And tidy and wrapped up in a bow with the way sir came back and Kate and jason got together. I thought also how the baby looked nothing like chase was disrespectful to the character and another way to skip over chase It really felt like chase is gone so Brandon will take over! Over all a disappointing read if u want to read I suggest u don't fall to hard for chase as I did or ul turn out a sour as the rest of us.
This book is the equivalent of a shitty TV movie that is a train wreck from the start and you keep watching solely to see if you can predict what it’s going to do next.
I really enjoyed this book. In the beginning it felt a lot like Beautiful Disaster. There is a love triangle and there is some devastation that made me cry. I do wish that all these books were about girls that were in their 20s instead of teens/late teens. I guess that's why it's a YA genre though lol.