SarahBeth Carter

I enjoyed this book, I thought the plot was fantastic and well-done, and it was just a good story. However, I had a lot of trouble relating to the characters and the way the book was written kind of put me off. As high school teenagers, the characters didn't seem realistic to me. They used words and phrases I would expect 30 or 40-year-olds to use. Also, everything was too didactic. In a book dealing with the issues of abuse, I expected a lot of things to be more subtle, especially the emotions of the characters, but they tell you exactly what they're feeling and kind of analyze themselves along with that. I like it when there's mystery to characters' motives and actions and there wasn't any mystery with these ones. All in all, it was a good read, but it just wasn't fantastic.… (more)