Marissa
Dear god this book. I was probably 60% through it and I was like this is fucking ridiculous. It’s getting a 3. HOWEVER, things got a LOT better by the end which earned the .5.
Considering I loved the first book so much, I kinda wasn’t sure what to expect. I had to re-read some paragraphs because I was dumbfounded. That being said, Eva was being a brat, petty, immature, and overall self righteous, the majority of this book.
I get her frustrations, anger, betrayal, and fear. Giving your all to someone, the good, the bad, the ugly, the pure and extremely raw vulnerability she had, it would make sense to crash-out if still in the dark about your partner. But I couldn’t handle the pettiness.
MEGA SPOILERS BELOW
To expand on the statement above, the whole thing with her ex that they saw in concert. I was getting secondhand embarrassment. I didn’t like the method Gideon used to get the truth; at first, I thought he was using a point to be on his high horse and ‘gloat’ about her kissing another man, while accusing him of cheating. Though, their dynamic makes as to why that was the route taken, and in the end (somehow) successful to get her to admit the truth.
GO EVA WHEN SHE WENT TO CORRINE AND CONFRONTED HER. GOD I WAS SO HYPE.
IMO, I thought it to be predictable when her mom was doubled over after lunch in the street, I knew immediately she had seen her daughters rapist and knew Gideon would kill him. However, the plot was good to get there. Like actually pretty good. I LOVED her development when she broke up with him, grieved (valid), and grew as a person, living in a new place, not being co-dependent on him. They were genuinely so toxic throughout the book but I’m really liked that the characters didn’t deny that, they spoke it into existence, acknowledged it, and TOOK ACTION with couples therapy.
The pediatrician, Gideon’s mother, his step brother, can all go to hell. They infuriated me. But their part in his upbringing made much more sense about his hesitancy. Also, finding out Gideon saw videos of her as a child taken by her rapist I think was a crucial aspect in the book, but I didn’t realize it until later on. Both of them struggling with themselves and their fears of losing the other person based on traumatic events out of their control, speaks volumes to the eventual growth and development between them.
Dear god this book. I was probably 60% through it and I was like this is fucking ridiculous. It’s getting a 3. HOWEVER, things got a LOT better by the end which earned the .5.
Considering I loved the first book so much, I kinda wasn’t sure what to expect. I had to re-read some paragraphs because I was dumbfounded. That being said, Eva was being a brat, petty, immature, and overall self righteous, the majority of this book.
I get her frustrations, anger, betrayal, and fear. Giving your all to someone, the good, the bad, the ugly, the pure and extremely raw vulnerability she had, it would make sense to crash-out if still in the dark about your partner. But I couldn’t handle the pettiness.
MEGA SPOILERS BELOW
To expand on the statement above, the whole thing with her ex that they saw in concert. I was getting secondhand embarrassment. I didn’t like the method Gideon used to get the truth; at first, I thought he was using a point to be on his high horse and ‘gloat’ about her kissing another man, while accusing him of cheating. Though, their dynamic makes as to why that was the route taken, and in the end (somehow) successful to get her to admit the truth.
GO EVA WHEN SHE WENT TO CORRINE AND CONFRONTED HER. GOD I WAS SO HYPE.
IMO, I thought it to be predictable when her mom was doubled over after lunch in the street, I knew immediately she had seen her daughters rapist and knew Gideon would kill him. However, the plot was good to get there. Like actually pretty good. I LOVED her development when she broke up with him, grieved (valid), and grew as a person, living in a new place, not being co-dependent on him. They were genuinely so toxic throughout the book but I’m really liked that the characters didn’t deny that, they spoke it into existence, acknowledged it, and TOOK ACTION with couples therapy.
The pediatrician, Gideon’s mother, his step brother, can all go to hell. They infuriated me. But their part in his upbringing made much more sense about his hesitancy. Also, finding out Gideon saw videos of her as a child taken by her rapist I think was a crucial aspect in the book, but I didn’t realize it until later on. Both of them struggling with themselves and their fears of losing the other person based on traumatic events out of their control, speaks volumes to the eventual growth and development between them.