3.5 stars

Honestly I really don’t know how to break this one down the way I normally do, so I’m just going off the vibe that I got from this book, and that’s 3.5 stars.

The premise was really interesting, and I thought it was super cool that it takes place in Ellensburg, WA. Ellensburg is a small college town about an hour and a half from where I live. We often stop there for food and bathroom breaks when we visit my grandma, and one of my cousins attends the college there. I’m not super familiar with the place, but I know it, and that’s always fun.

I went into this book expecting to have my heart crushed into a million pieces, and yeah, it was sad, but I never connected with the characters or got into the story enough to really feel sad like I was expecting. I didn’t cry; I didn’t even get teary eyed. I don’t know if it was Julie’s narration, or the pacing, or the sometimes disjointed storytelling (I think that was on purpose though), but I just couldn’t connect and get swept in like I needed to in order to enjoy the story to its fullest.

It was a good story and a good book, and I definitely recommend it, I just didn’t connect with it the way I’d hoped.