m_kuryla's reviews
109 reviews

-loved the plot twists
-frustrating that morgan wasn’t communicating to clara, about the true details of chris and jennys car accident and why they were together
-loved jonah and morgan together and how they both felt around each other
-loved that jonah still cared and loved elijah when it wasn’t biologically his kid
-clara and miller were cute, millers promposal was super cute and very romantic
-clara’s best friend wasn’t involved in the story as much as i would’ve hoped but they wrote her off as “working all of the time”
-seemed unnecessary for her best friend to get with efren halfway through the book just because we don’t know much about those characters and we barely hear abt them after that
-jonah and morgan’s sex scene…

-so far the beginning has got me hooked. i’m interested in the plot.
-i understand why they would fly to Austin in part 2 but that looks super suspicious to law enforcement. the FBI was just talking to her about how the wife was trying to leave the country. granted, hannah and bailey aren’t trying to flee the country but traveling at this time doesn’t look not guilty
-they’ve known each other for 28 months. 8 months ago was her birthday where he referred to her as his wife. which means they probably got married around a year of knowing each other. no wonder his daughter is so against her. they barely know each other and decide to get married
-i do like how hannah is communicating with bailey and being honest with her. there’s nothing more frustrating than the main conflict between two characters is that they won’t just be honest and communicate with each other
-14 months ago they got married. which means they only knew and dated each other for 14 months before getting married.
-i think it was a good book and ended decently. i wish i would’ve found out if bailey ended up having a relationship with Nicholas and what that looked like but other than that, it was good. i enjoyed it.
-i was waiting for a big Aha! moment that never seemed to come. the way that Owen/Ethan’s backstory was figured out and explained seemed underwhelming. it didn’t have my jaw on the floor or no big twist or anything.
-this book is good, but not great. i’m not sad to have finished it or left feeling empty or fulfilled by the ending. it’s just finished

i did enjoy the book. i thought this would be a cheesy almost rom com story but i was actually rooting for the main love story. i absolutely adored when he made up the excuse of the promposal and then had to actually execute it infront of the business people. very cute.

the ending left me sobbing. i don’t know why it tore me up so much but it did. it’s a very sad story about a sad family that only care about their rich white people problems. although it made me cry, it’s not perfect. i do not like the writing style. it’s very different, almost hard to understand. in the beginning, it talks about how her dad pulled out a hand gun and shot her and she bled all over the lawn. that was not literal at all. at first, i was very confused by this because i was reading as if it was and that was the big accident but as soon as her mother said to get up, i quickly realized it was a metaphor. i continued reading as if the author used those types of metaphors. throughout the book, cadence speaks about how she bleeds and gat helps wrap her wrists up. i took this as some sort of metaphor about how she’s upset and her wounds are her tears and he just wipes them away or some shit but as i read the other reviews, they said she was actually self harming?? very confusing and i would have never picked up on that while reading because the author made sure to put in that big metaphor in the beginning.

at first, i didn’t know how i was going to feel about it. it seemed somewhat boring at first and it just wasn’t picking up. then, as you learn more about andrew and his life, it’s more intriguing than anything. how someone can live like that. alone and pushing people away. although i understand why he has the tendency to do that considering the death that has followed him throughout his life. it was just be very hard and lonely.

peggy was an interesting aspect. she was definitely the one to push him along to move on with his life and to be able to be happy again. i’m glad they don’t necessarily end up together at the end because that’s not the point of why she was introduced. she’s supposed to help him with getting to the future and the possibilities that may unfold for him if he stops living in the past.

the lie that he told his coworkers and boss was about how he had a wife and two kids. we later find out that his supposed wife was a real person who he dated, but tragically died on the way to the store. the lie was just a fantasy of his. a story about what if. i believe it was apart of his grieving process that he got stuck in and never was able to get out. then he became too ashamed that he had been lying for so long that he couldn’t tell the people he worked with the truth until peggy came along.

the only part i wasn’t too fond of was the fact that it was set in London or somewhere in England or UK because they had phrases and words that Americans don’t use on a day to day basis so i did find myself looking words up to figure out what they mean. the slang and certain terms i could figure out just by using context clues but it was unnaturally as i read because i was reading with an american accent instead of a british one, which made the slang sound weird.

also the ending. i’m not sure why cameron had to report andrew. unless it was about the blackmailing? but the lie andrew told shouldn’t have been report in my opinion. it was a lie about his personal life that did not affect his work at all. he still came to work everyday and did his job. he could’ve been reporting the blackmail but even then, why did andrew lose his job over it?

overall, i enjoyed the storyline. it was a decent read besides the language used somewhat. would recommend.

very boring, predictable ending. unlikesble characters but i guess that’s what the point was about.

the book is very well written, it’s no longer written on a middle school level. it’s more of a young adult novel which i love.

the book really had me rooting for snow for the majority of the book which made me feel very conflicted since i know how he turns out in later books. then he does a complete 180 and turns out he wasn’t any different when he was younger.

i really loved snows and lucy’s relationship. made us see a whole other side of snow which made us root for him.

loved it. had trouble starting it at first because this is my first introduction to fantasy. the names are different, so is the nations and how it’s all setup so i did have to read up on the grishaverse wiki to understand some aspects but after i understood it, i fell in love. it was so good. it didn’t focus on the magical side of it too much to where it was the whole plot, but it was just enough to keep you entertained. kaz is wildly smart and deceiving to the point where it’s so impressive.