Reads With Friends discussion

The very first page is overwhelming. I feel like it was a rough way to start the book, but as I read I also release the information is important and I can't think of another way to present that initial bit of information. Also, I love of the Cincinnati/Dayton area references - that's where I live! It makes it seem more realistic somehow because I can picture the setting so well!

I'm so far really enjoying this book, I kind of wish I'd read it before I saw the movie trailer though. The trailer gives away too much. I like the writing style and the characters are interesting I like that Cassie is not the nicest of girls. I feel like a lot of ya novels have the misconception that all main protagonists especially females should be nice. In a way she's really not very nice. I'm ready to see where this leads too next!

I'm really loving this book and how far the beginning it is full of action. It just pulls you in and makes you want to keep turning the pages.

So far I'm not impressed, the chapter order is a little choppy for me...

I do agree I wish there wasn't so much back and forth present and past in the story. I wish it started with past and worked up to present.

Or had a "then" and "now" kind of set up.

Lauren, I totally agree that Cassie may not be the nicest. I don't think I was the nicest teenager though haha. It could also have been that she was just in denial and hardened to everything around her and didn't know how to handle the situation. I think she cared a lot about her dad and having him see the situation as perhaps a positive thing was ridiculous but also terrifying to her that it seemed like he did not understand the gravity of the situation.
I'm not sure how I feel about the book jumping around in time but I do like the writing style, the repetition of the rhythm and words in some phrases. The short sentences with threeish word clauses punctuated by commas, especially in the parts where it is completely silent and suspenseful really suits it nicely, I think.

Finally got through the first section! :)