I loved "Where the Forest Meets the Stars" so much that I immediately put the author's other books on my wish list.

I didn't find this story quite as magical as the first, but it was still mostly a good read.

Where it fell apart for me was with the reveals of the twists. I had figured out a couple of things, but then it went off the rails a bit when

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Vaughn admitted stealing Julia's books (did I miss the part where they mentioned Julia was a writer?)

and then

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Riley hit him with the car

.

I had to put aside a lot of disbelief to get through the rest of the story, and I was doing ok until

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Kaz showed up at the end only to be shot and killed, all in one chapter

. It felt very much like early readers or the publisher wanted that loose end tied up so the author tossed it on as an afterthought.