And yet his every cantankerous and hurtful action indicates a deeper, more serious cause at the root of it all. Smug, defiant, even apathetic at times, he is the kind of teenager you want to dislike. “The meaner he was to me, the more I wanted to make him like me.”Įlec is a contradiction at first. And yet, she never gives up, her innate kind-heartedness successfully bringing down Elec’s defensive walls, one brick at a time. The more young Greta tries to make him feel welcome in his new home, the more scorn and rejection she suffers at the hands of her new stepbrother. And his main target seems to be the very person who is most enthusiastic about his arrival-Greta. Even though they have technically been stepsiblings for a few years at that stage, they are complete strangers to one another, and while we see Greta looking forward to getting to know her new stepbrother, from the first moment Elec enters his new home, he does so with an air of disapproval and rebellion. We meet Greta and Elec as teenagers on the very day they first meet, when Elec comes to live temporarily with his estranged dad and his new family. “Physically, he was my dream and in every other way, my nightmare.” However, nothing about this story is what I expected to find, and everything about it has been a wonderful surprise-from the confident prose, to the dynamic characters, this is a love story that I immersed myself into fully and wholeheartedly, and loved every single minute of it.
From the moment I read the title, something inside me started screaming, I want, the mere idea of a forbidden romance of this type making my skin tingle. You know those books that pull you in like a riptide, taking over all your senses and making you completely oblivious to the fact that there is a real life outside those pages waiting for you to live it? Well, this is one of those books.
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