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A review by lmrivas54
The Sinner by Kelsey Clayton
3.0
With a great plot and a slow pace, the story of Grayson and Savannah is tragic. They were best friends since they were 5 years old, fake-married when they were 10 years old, and wrenched away from each other soon after that.
Grayson and his family left town , his father was imprisoned for fraud and later killed in a raid. Ten years later, Gray is back in town, back in their posh private high school with revenge in his mind and the victim is Savannah.
After Gray left, Savannah’s life took a turn for the worst life imaginable. Her father turned into this monster, addicted to booze and drugs, and they had to move from their beautiful house into a derelict shack in the bad part of town. She’s still going to the same posh high school, thanks to the generosity of her dance teacher, who is also the mother of her current and only best friend Brady.
Savi keeps all other friends away from her existence so they don’t learn about her downturn in circumstances. This makes for a very lonely existence with only dance as her motivation and the goal for a scholarship in Juilliard, away from her father.
When Gray starts attending school, he’s at first hateful, vengeful, totally cruel. As the weeks pass, he starts to get conflicted because he really loved Savi and missed her. The author presents Savi and Gray like a couple who have loved each other deeply since childhood and their love surpasses absence and heartache.
There’s a long and protracted description of their days in school, the many ways that Gray humiliated Savi, how she responded, repeat and repeat. It got old after a while and I just wanted to know why the heck Gray hated her so much and to get over it already. They were both ten years old when they parted, what kind of nefarious deed could a little girl do that would ruin his life?
The plot was great but the pace was slow and it got especially slow midway through the story. I got tired soon with Gray’s pettiness, and saw no progress on the resolution of the story. Most of the forward action happens in the second part of the story when things got more dramatic, Savi took a more decisive participation and reunited with old friends. There were great emotional parts, a tad too much bullying, pace too slow, and not enough resolution of the problems.
It was a fantastic plot that sort of got stuck in the small details and didn’t move forward with the main purpose of the story. The final resolution was a little underwhelming and unexpected. I was not convinced with Gray’s issue with Savannah, it was a non issue for me, and didn’t justify the enmity. In the end, I loved how he eventually manned up and faced his issues.
I also had problems reconciling a Savannah that was so incisive at school, very snarky and assertive at school, with the submissive and downtrodden daughter at her home with her father. Eventually, she was shown as a kinder friend at school at more assertive at home and it balanced her personality for me. In the end, I would say that the first part of this book was a 3 star read and the second part was a 4 star.
Grayson and his family left town , his father was imprisoned for fraud and later killed in a raid. Ten years later, Gray is back in town, back in their posh private high school with revenge in his mind and the victim is Savannah.
After Gray left, Savannah’s life took a turn for the worst life imaginable. Her father turned into this monster, addicted to booze and drugs, and they had to move from their beautiful house into a derelict shack in the bad part of town. She’s still going to the same posh high school, thanks to the generosity of her dance teacher, who is also the mother of her current and only best friend Brady.
Savi keeps all other friends away from her existence so they don’t learn about her downturn in circumstances. This makes for a very lonely existence with only dance as her motivation and the goal for a scholarship in Juilliard, away from her father.
When Gray starts attending school, he’s at first hateful, vengeful, totally cruel. As the weeks pass, he starts to get conflicted because he really loved Savi and missed her. The author presents Savi and Gray like a couple who have loved each other deeply since childhood and their love surpasses absence and heartache.
There’s a long and protracted description of their days in school, the many ways that Gray humiliated Savi, how she responded, repeat and repeat. It got old after a while and I just wanted to know why the heck Gray hated her so much and to get over it already. They were both ten years old when they parted, what kind of nefarious deed could a little girl do that would ruin his life?
The plot was great but the pace was slow and it got especially slow midway through the story. I got tired soon with Gray’s pettiness, and saw no progress on the resolution of the story. Most of the forward action happens in the second part of the story when things got more dramatic, Savi took a more decisive participation and reunited with old friends. There were great emotional parts, a tad too much bullying, pace too slow, and not enough resolution of the problems.
It was a fantastic plot that sort of got stuck in the small details and didn’t move forward with the main purpose of the story. The final resolution was a little underwhelming and unexpected. I was not convinced with Gray’s issue with Savannah, it was a non issue for me, and didn’t justify the enmity. In the end, I loved how he eventually manned up and faced his issues.
I also had problems reconciling a Savannah that was so incisive at school, very snarky and assertive at school, with the submissive and downtrodden daughter at her home with her father. Eventually, she was shown as a kinder friend at school at more assertive at home and it balanced her personality for me. In the end, I would say that the first part of this book was a 3 star read and the second part was a 4 star.