This book is absolutely terrible. The relationship we are shown is clearly very emotionally abusive and manipulative. If you ship Hardin and Tessa you probably need to talk to a therapist. That said, the sex scenes were really realistic and well written-- in particular the scene where Tessa had sex for the first time. Because of the extremely well done virginity scene I give this book two stars instead of one-- because it is THAT RARE to have a good virginity scene.