readingbelle's review against another edition
Enjoyable mature YA with mature subject matters.
adeebasworldd's review against another edition
5.0
All the literal feels!!!!! I crave good happy ending so much and this story just delivered in every way. It wasn’t perfect but I loved every second of reading it. I am gonna miss them so much!!
escurezza's review against another edition
4.0
secret admirer not so secret. but it's fine because knox was
domnicmtz's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Drug use
mimmie_massie's review against another edition
3.0
When I started this book I was so angry,not at the author but the characters who have their heads so far where the sun doesn't shine that they rather make the victim the villain of their story rather than take notice of what she is saying.Their level of the god entitlement complex,gah!I wanna slap each an every one of them silly and seven ways to next Sunday.Like they were to hurt Ava and she was supposed to take it laying down and not make a comment?
Ava was dealt a bad hand and everything wasn't supposed to work out but she is a kick-ass heroine and she fights tooth and nail for her future.In the end she gets all she deserves,a cool career,a family,a home ,friends and a good man .Yey her
Ava was dealt a bad hand and everything wasn't supposed to work out but she is a kick-ass heroine and she fights tooth and nail for her future.In the end she gets all she deserves,a cool career,a family,a home ,friends and a good man .Yey her
ivet28's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
I think I'll be in minority here when I say that this story wasn't well wrapped up, in my opinion and even though I liked it, I still think some major issues weren't dealt with properly and accordingly.
dealing with heavy subject of physical violation of a woman is not smth I would put lightly in any book, and here it's masked in a "enemies-to-lovers" high school romance...
so not the appropriate platform for that kind of theme and furthermore, it wasn't even addressed or resolved in the full manner, meaning - I had a feeling it was only crossed over and left for the reader to make for the right conclusion.
Sure, fine...but still, I felt I needed something more substantial to wrap up this horrible thing that happened to the heroine so she could be healed...but I felt that the author just gave her "romance" as a means to "heal", or well, that's how I felt about it, so i guess it's on me.
Nevertheless, I liked the characters, some more, some less BUT I loved Knox especially.
dealing with heavy subject of physical violation of a woman is not smth I would put lightly in any book, and here it's masked in a "enemies-to-lovers" high school romance...
so not the appropriate platform for that kind of theme and furthermore, it wasn't even addressed or resolved in the full manner, meaning - I had a feeling it was only crossed over and left for the reader to make for the right conclusion.
Sure, fine...but still, I felt I needed something more substantial to wrap up this horrible thing that happened to the heroine so she could be healed...but I felt that the author just gave her "romance" as a means to "heal", or well, that's how I felt about it, so i guess it's on me.
Nevertheless, I liked the characters, some more, some less BUT I loved Knox especially.