Some things like that just didn’t make sense to me, so I had trouble seeing Echo’s character as having real gritty problems vs. I just thought that parts of it were weird - like how she refused to tell anybody the truth when it was so much better than what people were making up about her, and how her dad didn’t want her taking art classes. Maybe it was too angsty or too melodramatic and unrealistic…I’m not really sure. Objectively, I love the idea of reading about somebody dealing with memory problems and having insecurities relating to physical appearance, but I couldn’t quite connect with Echo’s story the way that I wanted to. But I’m not sure where it quite went wrong for me. I had a little bit of a problem with Echo’s past, though. Noah was a good example of how a guy should act about sex when he really cares about you. And I adored how he treated Echo, especially when it came to the issue of sex. He did hang around with pot-smokers and broke a few laws, but at the end of the day, he had a big heart and truly loved Echo, his friends, and family. I thought McGarry did a good job giving Noah this “bad boy mystique” without having to delve into asshole territory. It was nice to see how much Noah cared for his family. I also really liked the relationship with Noah and his friends Isaiah and Beth, as well as his relationship with his brothers. Although I do wish that there had been less terms of endearment and commenting on how good the other person smelled. It was sweet to watch their relationship slowly develop after that first spark-filled conversation. I really did enjoy reading the parts with the two of the them together, helping each other through their issues and learning to overcome their problems.
What I did like was the chemistry behind Echo and Noah. For some reason, I had assumed it was going to be more mature, maybe a little bit more New Adult-y (not necessarily with sex, but just with character behavior), but it wasn’t. I couldn’t get behind the high school-ness of this book. There was lots of issues with people sitting at certain lunch tables and being afraid to be seen holding so-and-so’s jacket.
A lot of those aspects of the book felt very juvenile and stereotypical. Parts of the book felt forced to me - like having Noah’s foster parents make him live in the basement, Echo having issues with her stepmom, Echo’s former BFF being a bitch, and Echo’s ex-boyfriend being a huge dick. I guess I was expecting something a little bit more gritty, more real. I’m still going to continue on with the series, but I’m not as excited about it as I was before I read this book. *sigh* Honestly, I was expecting a little bit more from this book.
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