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by Penelope Douglas
Tiernan’s parents were famous and rich and they provided her with everything except love and attention. When her parents died, shy of 18, Tiernan goes to live with her step uncle and her two step cousins. (No blood relation there, chill)
Life in solitude, in a remote mountain cabin might be exactly what she needs when the press is hunting her for a statement. There, she learns how to enjoy life, stand up for herself and to take whatever she wants.
Each character has a lot of trauma to unpack and I should warn you some of it may be triggering. Suicide and child negligence are pillars in this plot.
SPOILERS - DISCUSSION
I want to strangle Tiernan’s parents. Her parents were despicable and there is absolutely no excuse for how they treated her. And what happened to Kaleb? Jesus, no surprise the guy is mute.
Jake was great. The tension between him and Tiernan was thrilling and in the end I just had to ask “is he okay with how everything developed? Should we check on him?”.
Noah was my favourite. He was funny and complicated; he opened up the most to Tiernan and she trusted him with her stories. They both had a difficult relationship with their parents. Tiernan was ignored and Noah was used and lied to.
As a romantic interest, Noah should have either been endgame or stayed platonic. Because while I appreciated the whole threesome scene, Noah should have been all or nothing.
Kaleb was a basket case and understandably so. It’s difficult to bond with a character who doesn’t speak.
But I predicted he was endgame. She bonds more with Jake and Noah, only to understand Kaleb later. Plus it’s the little things Kaleb did like kissing her forehead, putting her in his lap when the car seat was wet, protecting her from Hombcomb, helping her with her sketches, calming her every night through the nightmares and stitching her wound. And finally starting speaking.
Well, I may not have liked him from the beginning, but the signs were there and in the end he tried his best to move on from his trauma for her.
Life in solitude, in a remote mountain cabin might be exactly what she needs when the press is hunting her for a statement. There, she learns how to enjoy life, stand up for herself and to take whatever she wants.
Each character has a lot of trauma to unpack and I should warn you some of it may be triggering. Suicide and child negligence are pillars in this plot.
SPOILERS - DISCUSSION
I want to strangle Tiernan’s parents. Her parents were despicable and there is absolutely no excuse for how they treated her. And what happened to Kaleb? Jesus, no surprise the guy is mute.
Jake was great. The tension between him and Tiernan was thrilling and in the end I just had to ask “is he okay with how everything developed? Should we check on him?”.
Noah was my favourite. He was funny and complicated; he opened up the most to Tiernan and she trusted him with her stories. They both had a difficult relationship with their parents. Tiernan was ignored and Noah was used and lied to.
As a romantic interest, Noah should have either been endgame or stayed platonic. Because while I appreciated the whole threesome scene, Noah should have been all or nothing.
Kaleb was a basket case and understandably so. It’s difficult to bond with a character who doesn’t speak.
But I predicted he was endgame. She bonds more with Jake and Noah, only to understand Kaleb later. Plus it’s the little things Kaleb did like kissing her forehead, putting her in his lap when the car seat was wet, protecting her from Hombcomb, helping her with her sketches, calming her every night through the nightmares and stitching her wound. And finally starting speaking.
Well, I may not have liked him from the beginning, but the signs were there and in the end he tried his best to move on from his trauma for her.