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The Surviving Trace by Calia Read
3.0

My like for this book may or may not be with my ideas of what this book could have been, rather than what it ended up being. 

I feel no real chemistry between these two. There are moments when they do seem to connect, but there's no burning attraction and desire for the most part. When it does finally come along and I start to get swept up in then, she's swept away from the past and the connection I was beginning to make with them immediately breaks.

 I liked the tension between them, them working together to find a way to get her home and getting closer was cute. But the pacing was off. The book is slow, not much happens to push the plot forwards and there's no character development. 

Long story short, I struggled getting through this one. I was perpetually bored. Constantly zoning out, not paying as much attention as I like to with my books. I liked it, the story was there, maybe the execution threw me off a bit, but I did enjoy the overall idea behind it. I just didn't love any of it.