Main Character: Abby
Love Interest: Eli
Series: None
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Abby accepted that she can’t measure up to her beautiful, magnetic sister Tess a long time ago, and knows exactly what she is: Second best. Invisible. Until the accident. Now Tess is in a coma, and Abby’s life is on hold. It may have been hard living with Tess, but it’s nothing compared to living without her. She’s got a plan to bring Tess back though, involving the gorgeous and mysterious Eli, but then Abby learns something about Tess, something that was always there, but that she’d never seen. Abby is about to find out that truth isn’t always what you think it is, and that life holds more than she ever thought it could…
I was interested in reading this book right from the moment I read the blurb. It just seemed like it would be a good book and while I think it was a good read, it was hard for me to connect with the main character, Abby.
Abby has always lived in her older sister Tess’ shadow. Tess is everything Abby is not and Abby is okay with it. She learned her lesson a long time ago and it’s a lesson that has stayed with her since. It was hard to live in Tess’ shadow but now that Tess is in a coma, Abby is starting to realize that living without her doesn’t really work for her either.
Abby visits Tess every single day. She sits with her and she talks to her and then she starts pleading with her to come back to them. To come back home and one day, the most gorgeous guy comes into the room and talks and Abby, who is watching Tess sees Tess move. She doesn’t know what to make of it all but she saw what she saw and she rushes over to make a deal with the new guy. She seems to think that if Eli (the guy) comes by everyday and talks to Tess, she might wake up and they’ll (Eli and Tess) live happily ever after and Abby will have her sister back. She wants to hook Tess up with Eli because she thinks that hot people should be with other hot people.
Getting into this book was kind of hard because there’s so much angst and emotion in the things that are going through Abby’s head. The longer Tess stays in a coma, the more Abby starts finding out about Tess. She learns things she never knew about her sister and the singleminded way she went after her answers sometimes got on my nerves. She was quick to assume things about everyone concerned and there were times when I would shake my head, annoyed that yet again, Tess is picking at problems that have nothing to do with her and throwing accusations that she knows nothing about.
I got it, she was just trying to get to the bottom of everything that brought Tess to where she is now but a lot of the things she was trying to find out were none of her business and it annoyed me the things that would come out of Abby’s mouth.
Now, don’t go thinking that I hated Abby or anything like that because I didn’t. To me, Abby was that friend that you don’t really know what to do with. She said and did things that made you shake your head but she was someone that you came to care about despite everything that annoys you about her. Scott did a great job of making Abby’s character real to me. The romance that blossomed between Eli and Abby was what kept me invested in the story. I wanted to know more about Eli and learning more about him through Abby made the story pop for me.
Overall, this story was good but it left me wanting a lot more than I got from the story and that’s the main reason I gave it the grade I did.
..and that’s your scoop!
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This is my least favorite Scott book thus far. I was kind of disappointed in this one.
@Mollie: Were you annoyed with Abby as much as I was? LOL.