This starts with Reina waking up in a hospital after being attacked but having no recollection of what happened or who she is. The doctors introduce her to Asher, who is apparently her fiancée but she doesn't recognize him either. He seems to hate her for some reason and makes it known to her while promising to destroy her.

As she tries to settle into her life again, not knowing anyone or anything about who she was, she finds out that her old self was a very different version of how she feels. She tries to blend into the background to avoid too many questions, but that seems impossible given her popularity.

While she tries to get used to the new normal and all the fears and feelings, someone seems determined to make her life hell and keeps getting bolder with each encounter. At the same time, someone from her past seems to know a lot about her and what is going on with her and Reina can't decide who is on her side and who wants to see her fall.

The story kept me hooked cuz I was trying to figure out what really happened to Reina and the 180 shift in her behavior that everyone kept pointing out before and after her attack and amnesia.

The name switch at the beginning had me confused so I kept thinking back to what happened at the beginning to try to figure it out. I was trying to understand what actually happened the night of the attack

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and trying to guess if there was some kind of a switch that happened.

I was also invested in finding out who G and Cloud003 were. While we find out the identity of G at the end of this book, we still don't know who Cloud003 is. Are they the same person or two different people? I'm not sure yet. And what do they each want from Reina?

Coming to the romance aspect of the book, Asher and Reina had absolutely no chemistry. I felt no spark or connection or anything between these two that made me want to root for them. I cannot for the life of me understand how she even fell in love with him cuz I didn't see any chance of that happening with how he kept physically and verbally abusing her. The disgust I felt for how he hurt her in the hospital and then again after returning home after she was brutally attacked and in so much pain. Him asphyxiating her (constantly grabbing her throat and cutting off her air supply until she almost passes out, holding her down under the shower while she struggled to breathe), calling her names, randomly asking her to suck his finger (which she does eagerly). What about him exactly made her fall for him?? His personality was non-existent. And the ick I got from Asher constantly calling Reina his "ugly monster".

There honestly wasn't much going on. Asher was barely around, but when he was, he was being a total dick to her and talking to her like he owned her. Then Reina acts all indignant but then she's drooling looking at him and getting all hot and bothered. She doesn't truly put up any fight even though she keeps saying she won't tolerate this behavior. After all this I can't really tell at what point he does anything to make it even seem like he liked her, but Reina still falls for him and I'm just stunned.

Also, I didn't get any college vibes from reading this. This seriously felt like high school crap the way all these people were behaving. I like Naomi and she was a side character who actually made sense.

The book ends in a cliffhanger which was kind of predictable but I still have questions about some characters and events and am invested to know how things will unravel and what really happened the night of the attack.