This is my first book of Brooke O’Brien’s that I’ve read and I can honestly say that Brooke did a pretty good job with this book and I found myself really enjoying the story and the characters. I read this in a few hours and I honestly couldn’t believe it when I got to the end as I honestly thought that there was so much more that was bound to happen. Now whilst I really enjoyed the story I do have to say that there was only two small things that I thought could have been thought about a bit more and possibly worked on a little. For example, I found it at times to be a little repetitive as you’d read one sentence and then a few lines later you would find that the one sentence had been repeated again. For me, I didn’t see the need to keep repeating some of the things that had been said. Other than that, I can’t say there was anything wrong with the writing. The one other thing that I thought needed to be looked at was at how quickly Ellie managed to get over her the things in her past and the way she closed herself off to people. You’d think that with the way she had been treated and brought up, that she would have a problem with either being around guys, whether that be them touching her or them being near her in such an enclosed space or the fact that the way she had been running from her past and didn’t want to trust anyone because she was scared to let them in but for some reason it seemed as if she got over all of those obstacles quickly. If that had been me, I wouldn’t have opened up to anyone as quickly as she had done and that being because of the fact that due to what had gone on in the past I would have full on been scared to even open up. So, I don’t think that the way she opened up was thought out properly because if you had been through years of physical abuse and was still scared of the thought of the one person who did it coming back after you, you wouldn’t be opening up as fast as she had. Those are the only two concerns that I have, but otherwise the book was pretty much perfect, it kept me hooked until the very end.
Ellie has been through such a lot in such a short amount of time, she went from having such a loving family to having to watch her back and defend for herself. She had lost the two people that cared about her more than anyone within the space of 10 years, it must not have been easy on her and you would have thought that things would have changed. However, Ellie made one promise to her Gran… That when she could leave, she would go ahead and make a life for herself. Even though she was free, she couldn’t help but keep looking back over her shoulder because she constantly thought that she was being watched. But as she is about to start her journey to where her home will be for however long she chooses to stay, things seem to change whether they are for good or bad…. You’ll have to pick up this book in order to find out what happens with Ellie and to also see if she can escape from the past completely.
Ellie has been through such a lot in such a short amount of time, she went from having such a loving family to having to watch her back and defend for herself. She had lost the two people that cared about her more than anyone within the space of 10 years, it must not have been easy on her and you would have thought that things would have changed. However, Ellie made one promise to her Gran… That when she could leave, she would go ahead and make a life for herself. Even though she was free, she couldn’t help but keep looking back over her shoulder because she constantly thought that she was being watched. But as she is about to start her journey to where her home will be for however long she chooses to stay, things seem to change whether they are for good or bad…. You’ll have to pick up this book in order to find out what happens with Ellie and to also see if she can escape from the past completely.