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A review by zealous_bibliophile
Keep by Rachel Van Dyken
3.0
I'm not coming up with a headline
So like the first book you have a 19 year old and a 23 year old who fall instantly in love, but only realize it was love at first sight when they are analysing things a whopping three weeks later and realize they are so.in sync and know everything about each other that they've met their soulmate and marriage is inevitable. Honestly it's not their age that bothers me about this, it's their age coupled with the three to four week time frame. If their story took place over the course of a year or more of be like yeah, I'm in. They found their one. This, this is lust and falsehood of knowing the other person. You can't connect to that and get lost in the love story because there is no love story. Then there are inconsistencies that should have been caught like Fallon is wearing skinny jeans while Zane is performing and then magically she is in a skirt. Or her parents are well to do but she can't afford college. There is also the fact that they are apparently several movies in now, but it is still October, so they should just be starting the first movie, you know the movie that was the setting for book one. Th are are a number of instances where the time line jumps all over the place in when things were suppose to occur and how long it's been, sometimes with the same chapter or couple of paragraphs and the reader is left confused. Van Dyken also completely ignore the fact she time hopped ahead a few months in the epilogue at the end of book one. Consistency and respect for the time line is just really lacking.
Spoiler in this paragraph: and by the way, if you pro miss that you love someone and you won't leave them and that you are going to keep them and they have to keep you in this moving speech, when said person comes out of freaking brain surgery and say uh I don't remember you but I feel a connection and the doctor said the memory loss is remote and I'm working on it, you don't say, well it's been a week and you aren't exactly the person I fell in love with so I'm just going to go ahead and break up with you. Honestly I was done with Fallon right then and there. She really.is.a.horrible person. Jay should have found zane's cousin's number and made that call because Fallon really provenance was fair weather. And even though Fallon is the worst and shouldn't be with Zane, I'm what about her whole college plot point? Is that just totally off the table? She is giving up college to follow Zane? That is beyond pathetic.
Average at best. Sad, because I was really intrigued by Zane, but the story is sloppy and Fallon doesn't prove to be someone worthy that you can get behind and root for.
So like the first book you have a 19 year old and a 23 year old who fall instantly in love, but only realize it was love at first sight when they are analysing things a whopping three weeks later and realize they are so.in sync and know everything about each other that they've met their soulmate and marriage is inevitable. Honestly it's not their age that bothers me about this, it's their age coupled with the three to four week time frame. If their story took place over the course of a year or more of be like yeah, I'm in. They found their one. This, this is lust and falsehood of knowing the other person. You can't connect to that and get lost in the love story because there is no love story. Then there are inconsistencies that should have been caught like Fallon is wearing skinny jeans while Zane is performing and then magically she is in a skirt. Or her parents are well to do but she can't afford college. There is also the fact that they are apparently several movies in now, but it is still October, so they should just be starting the first movie, you know the movie that was the setting for book one. Th are are a number of instances where the time line jumps all over the place in when things were suppose to occur and how long it's been, sometimes with the same chapter or couple of paragraphs and the reader is left confused. Van Dyken also completely ignore the fact she time hopped ahead a few months in the epilogue at the end of book one. Consistency and respect for the time line is just really lacking.
Spoiler in this paragraph: and by the way, if you pro miss that you love someone and you won't leave them and that you are going to keep them and they have to keep you in this moving speech, when said person comes out of freaking brain surgery and say uh I don't remember you but I feel a connection and the doctor said the memory loss is remote and I'm working on it, you don't say, well it's been a week and you aren't exactly the person I fell in love with so I'm just going to go ahead and break up with you. Honestly I was done with Fallon right then and there. She really.is.a.horrible person. Jay should have found zane's cousin's number and made that call because Fallon really provenance was fair weather. And even though Fallon is the worst and shouldn't be with Zane, I'm what about her whole college plot point? Is that just totally off the table? She is giving up college to follow Zane? That is beyond pathetic.
Average at best. Sad, because I was really intrigued by Zane, but the story is sloppy and Fallon doesn't prove to be someone worthy that you can get behind and root for.