The cover is really what drew me in for this one. It is so vibrant and eye-catching. I had high hopes since the blurb was also intriguing, but unfortunately I couldn’t connect with this book.
The book is told from two point-of-views and they come from Yasmine and Rafay. The book is also split between before and after so that the reader can try to fully understand what happened from the first chapter. Although usually I would like a split book like this I felt like there wasn’t enough clues or hints to what was going on and I had to try to understand the tree and the leaf symbols that Raf and his family had without really being told anything from the get-go. There is obviously mystery surrounding this and the reader does get to understand more about it but it is not until way later in the book and by that point I had already lost interest in the mystery.
Yasmine and Raf do go through a lot of development throughout the story. They are both in ways trying to move on with their lives and distant themselves from their family but not because they dislike them or anything. They are getting older and with that comes wanting change. I thought their relationship was okay.
Overall, this was just an okay read. I thought about dnfing but decided to keep going to see if it would get better for me. I am glad we got more info but it was still hard to connect with the story.
The book is told from two point-of-views and they come from Yasmine and Rafay. The book is also split between before and after so that the reader can try to fully understand what happened from the first chapter. Although usually I would like a split book like this I felt like there wasn’t enough clues or hints to what was going on and I had to try to understand the tree and the leaf symbols that Raf and his family had without really being told anything from the get-go. There is obviously mystery surrounding this and the reader does get to understand more about it but it is not until way later in the book and by that point I had already lost interest in the mystery.
Yasmine and Raf do go through a lot of development throughout the story. They are both in ways trying to move on with their lives and distant themselves from their family but not because they dislike them or anything. They are getting older and with that comes wanting change. I thought their relationship was okay.
Overall, this was just an okay read. I thought about dnfing but decided to keep going to see if it would get better for me. I am glad we got more info but it was still hard to connect with the story.