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4.4 stars
This author is one that I don't even have to have a title or a blurb to add it to my to be read list. If she writes it, I will read it. There is just something about the way that she writes that beckons my soul. I feel her words and I get lost in her worlds.
I started this book not sure of what was happening. I kept reading, despite not knowing what the beginning was foreshadowing, and immediately was caught up in the pull between Jude and Fern. Their connection was fire. I shouldn't have been drawn to Jude, because he was dastardly in how he treated her. He took Bullying to a whole new level. Yet, despite this, I still wanted to know how it tied to the beginning and how did Fern play into the story. I wasn't sure about Fern because, although there were parts of this that made it seem like she was just a lovestruck teenager, there also was more that led me to believe that she was connected to something sinister.
Even though this book started out with the characters in High School, they never felt like teenagers, other than the mad crush that Fern had on Jude, which could be even college age. I appreciate that because it is getting harder and harder to relate to characters that are 30 years, or more, younger than me. I, in fact, just thought of them at University or something, and at times, even older than that once I started understanding the secrets that surrounded them. Not many authors can make the characters timeless but this author can. If it wasn't like a word like Prom, I would have stayed in that mindset.
Once the story started putting the pieces together, and I finally understood what had happened in both of their pasts The story really clicked and it made sense. Up to that point though the story had just been a solid four. However, the pieces clicking together made the story finally click for me and I found myself enjoying it much more than I had. Now that I understand a little bit more about what is going on and the world in which they live, I am looking forward to more because there is SOOOO much possibility here. I hope there are a couple of characters that will get their story told.
Even though this was not my favorite by this author, it still would be a solid A-rated book by any other author, which says something with how insanely talented and mesmerizing this author is. She has some of the most poetic lines written in books and this book had several too. I highly recommend this and anything that this author writes.
This author is one that I don't even have to have a title or a blurb to add it to my to be read list. If she writes it, I will read it. There is just something about the way that she writes that beckons my soul. I feel her words and I get lost in her worlds.
I started this book not sure of what was happening. I kept reading, despite not knowing what the beginning was foreshadowing, and immediately was caught up in the pull between Jude and Fern. Their connection was fire. I shouldn't have been drawn to Jude, because he was dastardly in how he treated her. He took Bullying to a whole new level. Yet, despite this, I still wanted to know how it tied to the beginning and how did Fern play into the story. I wasn't sure about Fern because, although there were parts of this that made it seem like she was just a lovestruck teenager, there also was more that led me to believe that she was connected to something sinister.
Even though this book started out with the characters in High School, they never felt like teenagers, other than the mad crush that Fern had on Jude, which could be even college age. I appreciate that because it is getting harder and harder to relate to characters that are 30 years, or more, younger than me. I, in fact, just thought of them at University or something, and at times, even older than that once I started understanding the secrets that surrounded them. Not many authors can make the characters timeless but this author can. If it wasn't like a word like Prom, I would have stayed in that mindset.
Once the story started putting the pieces together, and I finally understood what had happened in both of their pasts The story really clicked and it made sense. Up to that point though the story had just been a solid four. However, the pieces clicking together made the story finally click for me and I found myself enjoying it much more than I had. Now that I understand a little bit more about what is going on and the world in which they live, I am looking forward to more because there is SOOOO much possibility here. I hope there are a couple of characters that will get their story told.
Even though this was not my favorite by this author, it still would be a solid A-rated book by any other author, which says something with how insanely talented and mesmerizing this author is. She has some of the most poetic lines written in books and this book had several too. I highly recommend this and anything that this author writes.