Copy provided by publishers via NetGalley for an honest review I did not enjoy this book. It seemed slow to start; although my curiosity was peaked towards the end of the first chapter, it didn’t last for very long and I found my attention wandering. Nora Blakely acted like a vapid, naive, spoilt, little girl prone to melodrama “…happiness is simply collecting and remembering all the good moments in your life, kinda like beads on a necklace… I worked on picturing my own moments… no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t make those beads turn out right in my head. Because my beads were vile pieces of plastic shit that no one would want to wear around their neck” and it became quite irritating very quickly. The majority of the time I just wanted to reach into the book and slap Nora upside the head for being a walking talking contradiction; She doesn’t want to move in with her aunt because “If I moved out people would talk. And then Mother would be angry at me” yet she’d rather do drugs, get a tattoo, wear ‘slutty’ clothing, have meaningless sex with different people, and act like a ‘bad girl’, which I’m sure would get people talking and her mother angry even more-so than what would have occurred if she simply moved out. The book was also filled with corny and sappy lines and I found Leo to be an unoriginal character who seemed to have more bite than bark, and his described personality didn’t seem to fit how he was written at all. The plot line had promise but was let down by the maudlin, contrary characters and the rudimentary writing style and techniques.
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