June 2013 Group Read - Initial thoughts

[Laura]

Share your initial thoughts here. As this isn't for set chapters please hide spoilers.

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[Gillian]

I enjoyed the first few chapters of this, watching the relationship develop was fun and what happened next, which we know from the blurb so it's not a spoiler was suitably heartbreaking. I'm a major fan of angst and I had high hopes for the book.

I've actually stopped reading, a few little things were annoying me but there was one major issue and I need to ask someone a favour.

(view spoiler)[ Nell starts using self harm as a coping technique and I've found it to be very triggery. I'm about 60% of the way through and need someone to tell me if this continues to be a theme and if it gets much worse or if it isn't dealt with properly, swept under the carpet or ignored. (hide spoiler)]

When someone finishes the book can you PM me so I can ask you some specific questions and see if it is worth me going back to finish the book.

Thanks,
Gillian.

[All-Things-Books [Whairigail]]

I'm finished it Gillian if you wanna ask me some questions?x

[Gillian]

Thanks, PM sent

[Shaunna McLaren]

I started this series a few months back. I gave up halfway through the first book, which I rarely do. I was very disappointed, since BD was so good. :(

[Heather]

The first time I read this book I enjoyed it. I remember it being really intense. I'm looking forward to reading it again.

[Kristine]

Got over halfway through with this book then couldn't read anymore. I liked the music part of the story but that's about it.

[Emily Raney]

I couldn't put it down. Like a train wreck, I couldn't look away. I thought the author did an excellent job expressing and explaining the extreme emotions of love, lust, loss and heartbreak. My only complaint is that it felt rushed toward the end.

[Renata]

Sooo I kind of have mixed feelings about this book... I was in love right away thought the first chapters. And actually the first part of the book was just amazing! Really, I was speechless and cried myself to sleep.
After the first part the book just lost it... And although I finished it I did n`t love the story. It was up to Ok.

[Kate]

I adored this story. Sometimes I'm in the mood for fluff, and sometimes I want to read something with a bit more grit. For me, the book read like two completely different stories-- and in a way, I was able to get the best of both-- fluff and grit-- in the same story.

I also tend to like an angsty soundtrack to be woven into the narrative. So thumbs up to the author for making music such a huge part of this novel.

I read this book a while back, and look forward to reading it again to participate in the chapter-by-chapter posts (although I remember being sort of emotionally wrecked by this story).

[J.]

Glad to hear that I'm not the only one to not love this book. I really enjoyed part one of the story. Part two, however, was a little much for me. Colton's back story was a little too unbelievable for me...

(view spoiler)[ Rich white boy who is illiterate then turns gangster and is a cutter??? too much! (hide spoiler)]

[Jessica]

Good gravy, I knew from the reviews that there was a death but didn't expect to be crying about it. Geez. Must have been the monthly timing. I had to stay up and get the funeral over. I don't even think I dreamed that night. I was emotionally exhausted. Love to death in such a short period! It was like reading New Moon and being depressed but thankfully this time I read through it a helluva lot faster.

[Joy]

I am a little confused though. How did Nell grow up with Kyle but not really know Colton? They meet for the first time at the funeral? It sounded like they were only 6 years apart.

[Katelyn]

I liked this book-I kind of expected more though. I feel like the last 15% especially was kind of strange. I liked the music in the story and would listen to whatever songs they mentioned so that was fun.
It's definitely a sad one...

[Deanna]

I would agree with the comments that this was actually two books. I thought the blurb was brilliant and the first half really delivered.

I think I'm like a crack addict who loved "Hopeless" so much as my first NA and am still trying to relive the experience.

[Janiea]

I absolutely LOVED this book. I felt like it was so moving, touching, heart warming, heart breaking...just Wow. I do wish we got a prologue or something that went further into the lives of Nell and Colton, but it was still a grear book.