I DNF half way through. I’d like to preface with, I feel bad for giving a 2 Star review, this is not a bad book, it just wasn’t for me. I get it’s YA, I love YA, but for me this book was too.... shallow? I’m just gonna use that word for now. Being from North Carolina, I was kind of excited to read a book set in the state, that was not Sarah Dessen. She doesn’t so blatantly say NC as much, but still. While in many ways this book mirrored Dessen’s it felt more like middle grade, and lacked the depth that Dessen’s have.

I wanted to like this book. I was really excited about the main character discussing her Epilepsy and how it shaped her into a fearful person, but I never got there enough to make me want to keep reading. Also it really annoys me that the first person she meets is already her love interest and we are just a few pages in. Chatham felt too perfect, and I just wasn’t interested. Honestly this book is probably right up the alley for a 12 year old girl, hoping her crush will notice her. But it doesn’t really have enough umph to stand the test of time.

I wanted more of hitch honestly and didn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to go to school with her right In The beginning. Seems illogical. And obviously this woman must have gone to UNC because it was mentioned like 3 times just in the first part of the book.