I marked this as containing SPOILERS, but I figured I'd throw another disclaimer in here anyway. Consider yourself duly warned.

That being said, there are several potential triggers in this book. If you are sensitive to content including sexual abuse and incest, you may want to steer clear of this book.

I'm pretty conflicted about this book. I absolutely loathe the first quarter of it. I hated Sky. She knew that the people at her school are gossip-mongering bullies who spread vicious lies as easily as breathing...and yet when she hears awful things about Holder, she just assumes that they are true. There were so many misunderstandings between the two of them that were completely avoidable and really made Sky look like an insufferable hypocrite.

From about the 25% mark to the 75% mark, I actually found myself enjoying the story. Now, that's not to say it was great literature. There were definitely issues going on that I had problems with. The slut shaming was endless and some of the dialogue was just laughable (teenagers do NOT speak like these two. I'm sorry, but it's true). But those things didn't stop me from grinning at some of the sweet and funny scenes.

Then at the 75% mark, the 'big reveal' happens. I am sure I'm not alone when I say that I saw almost all the twists long before they were actually revealed. Holder knew Sky when they were younger, and knew she'd been kidnapped. Sky's father was a pedophile and a rapist who had hurt his own sister (Sky's adoptive mother), Sky, and Lesslie, Holder's sister. The only thing that was a mild surprise here was that her father also assaulted Lesslie. Everything else was spelled out long before.

Now, I don't have a problem with the reveal in this story, regardless of the fact that I saw it coming from a mile away. My problem came from the fact that within a couple of hours of her remembering that her father had repeatedly raped her, she begs her boyfriend to have sex with her to "take that away from him (her father)." And he complies. It's highly disturbing. Holder feels terrible about it and stops almost immediately, but then comes back a couple hours later and they pick up where they left off.

Then, after her father commits suicide in front of them, they are cleaning his blood off of them and decide that it's a great time to have sex again. Ummmm...gross. I'm sorry, but no. Just no.

I haven't read many new adult books, so I'm not sure if the over-the-top emotional angsty language is normal, but there were several times where the melodrama was eye-roll inducing.

I really wavered between giving this 2 or 3 stars. I eventually gave it three stars because although I found much of this book problematic, I still enjoyed a good portion of the scenes.

I want to read more Colleen Hoover because I've heard amazing things about her books. I know that there are companion novels to this one, but I think I need to try something with different characters first.