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A review by melbsreads
With You All the Way by Cynthia Hand
3.75
Trigger warnings: cheating, alcohol abuse
I read and adored The Last Time We Say Goodbye when it came out and basically haven't read anything by Cynthia Hand since. So when I read the premise of this, I was super excited because it sounded right up my alley. And for the most part, this was pretty enjoyable. Ada's ready to lose her virginity to her boyfriend of six months until she finds him cheating on her. And then on a family holiday to Hawaii, she finds out her mother is having an affair. So she throws caution to the wind and decides to have sex herself, feelings be damned.
Ada's a character who's full of rage and grief. She adores her stepfather, the parent who's present more often than not as her mother is a surgeon, so she feels betrayed by her mother on two fronts. She's trying desperately to control the things in her control, but everything keeps getting in her way, which just makes her rage worse. There's a general sense of awkwardness between Ada and Nick, which was pretty adorable. And for all that the blurb makes it out to be a YA romance, it's a first and foremost a family drama.
All of that being said, the ending was INCREDIBLY abrupt to the point where I thought my Kindle was missing a chapter. So. There's that.
I read and adored The Last Time We Say Goodbye when it came out and basically haven't read anything by Cynthia Hand since. So when I read the premise of this, I was super excited because it sounded right up my alley. And for the most part, this was pretty enjoyable. Ada's ready to lose her virginity to her boyfriend of six months until she finds him cheating on her. And then on a family holiday to Hawaii, she finds out her mother is having an affair. So she throws caution to the wind and decides to have sex herself, feelings be damned.
Ada's a character who's full of rage and grief. She adores her stepfather, the parent who's present more often than not as her mother is a surgeon, so she feels betrayed by her mother on two fronts. She's trying desperately to control the things in her control, but everything keeps getting in her way, which just makes her rage worse. There's a general sense of awkwardness between Ada and Nick, which was pretty adorable. And for all that the blurb makes it out to be a YA romance, it's a first and foremost a family drama.
All of that being said, the ending was INCREDIBLY abrupt to the point where I thought my Kindle was missing a chapter. So. There's that.