I thought my last book was an emotional read, but it had nothing on this one. This one isn't even really a romance, it's more of a dark contemporary book because we are following a girl from the time, she's like 7 years old up until 17 years old. We have a lot of flashbacks throughout important times in her relationship with her family, especially her stepbrother, Shay. Shay and James are part of an MC and she's just a kid who is obsessed with them but doesn't fully understand that they are bad guys until she's about 13/14 when she finally realizes that her mom's not the bad guy and it's just a very emotional, sad book and gets very detailed. It's super heavy. Plus, we do end on a cliffhanger.