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***4 Stars*** This book had me going all kinds of up, down and sideways before it even got on my Kindle. The waffling was real and came down to this: How badly did I want to read it? I’ve read Pepper Winter’s words in duet form before and I ended up on two sides of the spectrum with them. One I adored, the other not so much. So the inner turmoil was real, but my curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to go for it...because the third time’s the charm right? And while I won’t say I fell into full on adoration with the story ~ at least thus far as this is only part one of the journey ~ I did fall into fascination with it, and sometimes that’s the better option for everyone. So why fascination? From the very first words I was sucked into the story, it was hard not to be because we are thrust into Ren and Della’s story without apology and it isn’t a pretty one to start out with. But what that did was make me want to know more. To see how life would treat these two hu...

***5 ‘All the things left unsaid’ Stars*** This book...I... just don’t know where to even start. I can’t say too much because of needing to keep things non-spoilery, but the NEED to vent is so strong that the words that want to come out are so jumbled up in my head that I’m not sure that they won’t come out as verbal vomit, but I think if I continue to try and get them to behave I’ll just make it worse, so here it goes nothing… This book frustrated the hell out of me. I spent a good portion of the time growling at the characters and their actions and yet I couldn’t put it down. I was utterly fascinated by their actions, reactions and inactions. I was seriously the proverbial kid in the candy store (though my adult self would say bookstore nowadays). But as tends to happen, I became INVESTED in them. I needed to know what they would do next and just how they’d complicated things further, and lemme tell you they ever! And then THAT ending came and even though I kn...