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This keeps showing up in Best of lists for 2014, so I had to read it and find out for myself.
To my surprise, I read it in just a few hours.
I am not the intended audience for this book.
I'm a 47 year old mom who enjoys reading YA sometimes. Books like The Hunger Games, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, and Harry Potter, have cross over appeal for all ages. This book? Does not.
This is an excellent book if you're young, maybe between maybe 13 to 15 years old, maybe a little older. I think I might have love ...more
To my surprise, I read it in just a few hours.
I am not the intended audience for this book.
I'm a 47 year old mom who enjoys reading YA sometimes. Books like The Hunger Games, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, and Harry Potter, have cross over appeal for all ages. This book? Does not.
This is an excellent book if you're young, maybe between maybe 13 to 15 years old, maybe a little older. I think I might have love ...more
Holy smokes, that was good.
I read this ARC via Netgalley.
Cady, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat have been spending their summers together on Martha's Vineyard since they were 8. The first three are all grandchildren of wealth, while Gat is the son of Johnny's mother's boyfriend. During summer fifteen, Cady begins to fall in love with Gat, but mysterious circumstances lead to Cady being fished out of the ocean and having amnesia and headaches and she can't really remember what happened that summer. Circumstances prevent her from re ...more
Cady, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat have been spending their summers together on Martha's Vineyard since they were 8. The first three are all grandchildren of wealth, while Gat is the son of Johnny's mother's boyfriend. During summer fifteen, Cady begins to fall in love with Gat, but mysterious circumstances lead to Cady being fished out of the ocean and having amnesia and headaches and she can't really remember what happened that summer. Circumstances prevent her from re ...more
I'm kind of torn on this one. Overall, I liked it. The set up was good. The twist was fun and well done. But a lot of the middle was repetitive. Rounding up from 3.5.
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When you pick up a book solely because it's been heralded as having a great twist ending, then you spend the whole book trying to figure out what the twist is, you can't criticize the ending for being too predictable.
Or at least, that's what I keep telling myself, since I guessed the ending before starting the book.
Yea YA! ...more
Or at least, that's what I keep telling myself, since I guessed the ending before starting the book.
Yea YA! ...more
The sometimes artsy prose annoyed me in the beginning, but once I got past that it was a good story with a great twist.
really good
May 30, 2014
Punk
marked it as find-and-read
Aug 27, 2014
Lidia K
marked it as to-read
Dec 08, 2014
Maggie
marked it as to-read
Jan 03, 2015
Christine
marked it as to-read
Jun 05, 2017
Michelle
marked it as to-read
Oct 14, 2022
Christina
marked it as to-read
