Beyah had lived her life building wall impermeable to guard her life, her heart. She had pulled through her way in this world, and about to set her foot out and away from her life now. And when her mom died, she had really had to get out of her current place and live with her dad in Texas. 

Where she then will discover a new family waiting ahead. New people, new person yet not less familiar and similar to her own self -- Samson -- mirrored the same damaged soul of hers. 

And where she will discover the new her that summer, as she grew heart bones; as they grew heart bones, only for them to be broken the next moment.

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I am skeptical, I have to keep reminding myself that I am reading a fiction, so this kind of romance and instant fling between Beyah and Samson is indeed possible. Perhaps it does happen in real life too, but I find it hard to grasp the whole idea even if it's possible -- how do people on such instant decide to love and have a love interest between them. That being said, made me love how the storyline turned out the next; as if now we can go through some regret, now we can ponder on a young age mistake. And yet, the best to  take place still for the next and until the very end. I love that the characters set about different choice, I had in mind, when a character put in such and such situation.

Somehow, I am not a big fan of the romance between Beyah and Samson, on the outside; the physical. But I love, love how they are internally connected, emotionally -- about everything untold between them yet told altogether with that bond on similar pain they bear, the same crack they have to slip out. I love their vulnerability.

On chapter 28 onwards, I started experiencing a breakdown, I don't know what triggered me, I cried then whimpered, I even shivered, cold sweat on my back. I guess the whole situation up to chapter 28 -- the damage that had happened to Beyah and Samson -- had caught up with me. Though this sounds like some exaggeration, but this did happen to me. Because in a tad bit I can relate to them, at least about how when the 'system' broke you and you got nothing that you can do to break loose of it.

It amused me how I went reading a romance novel, and to thinking about every kid all around the world, who have to grow up in a state similar to Beyah and Samson; broken and alone. No kids deserve to live -- and grow up -- in such conditions. Makes me reflect on, what have we human being gone wrong with in our life. 

I cried through the end, and it's not really because this a heartbreaking love story, it's because this is in a way, a heartbreaking life story.