Thank you so much to Sourcebook Landmark for an advance copy of this!

This book will be published on October 3rd.

This book was one of my most anticipated books of the year! I read Ashley Winstead for the first time last spring as In My Dreams I Hold A Knife was a book club pick with my friends and then I read The Last Housewives and my mind was blown. This woman knows how to write a thriller that keeps you on your toes!

"Move careful round dangerous creatures, Miss Ruth. They get cornered and desperate, their first instinct is always going to be to sting you."

This book was such a ride!! The relationship between Ever and Ruth was so special. You don't know whether to root for them or to want them to fail. And you are left feeling that way up until the very end.

This book had a lot of heavy religious tone to it and I just was so flabbergasted by how there are communities where religion is life. I am not so much in my bubble to know that it doesn't exist but it just amazes me of how much control one person could have over a community. I felt so bad for Ruth because you knew she wanted to break free from it all but just didn't know how to go against her parents and to what she knew.

"There's something to be said for being the biggest beast in the forest. That's power, and its something people get addicted to. Rots their inside."

One thing I was not expecting was how much Twilight played a role throughout the book?? I am sorry Ashley but the one part towards the last half of the book where Ruth & Ever were talking that I did have to laugh and for those who know, know. Unless it was just me who got a chuckle out of it.

It is hard to discuss all the things that happened in this book without giving too much of the storyline away. I will admit the first 50% dragged a little for me (I think there was an issue with my brain) but then the last half it took off. I could not stop reading and I needed to know what was going to happen to everyone and make all the connections.

Ashley has a way with her writing that makes you feel and think about things after the fact. It has been a few days since I have finished and yet I am still thinking about Ruth & Ever. 

Ashley, I am ready to see what else you have up your sleeve!

Definitely recommend this book if you were an Edward Cullen girlie, love a Bonnie & Cylde-esque theme mixed with religion!

Bonus: A line that made me laugh "Every teenage girl I've met has been the scariest create on the planet."