Overall Rating: 5 stars Brief Summary of the Storyline: Cassidy, the son of a serial killer, lives a quiet life in his grandfather’s cabin off the grid near a huge mountain trail in Maine. His mother moved them there, when he was a child, to escape the stigma of their family name. Now since his Grandfather and Mother have passed he has vowed to live alone, afraid to turn into the type of person his father became. Brynn is still mourning the death of her fiancé that was killed two years prior. She has cut herself off from her family, friends, and rest of the world. Just before the dead fiancé birthday, she finds a message to her on his cell phone. She decides to take his phone and bury it in the one place he loved most. That huge mountain in Maine. Their lives collide when Cassidy saves the life of Brynn and nurses her back to health. Overall Opinion: I fell in love with this book. It will be one of those I add to my will read again shelf. I was envisioning a different story but once I started I could not put this down. It offered…
Overall Rating: 5 Stars, I’d give it 10 if I rated that high. Brief Summary of the Storyline: Julie arrives in Boston for college but when her housing falls through she ends up staying with the family of her mom’s old college roommate. Upon moving in she feels something is not so quite right about the family. The parents, Erin and Roger are nice but complete workaholics. The oldest brother, Finn is always traveling and never comes home. The middle brother, Matt, who is about the same age as Julie, is an MIT tech geek who seems to clash a bit with Julie. But then there’s the youngest child, Celeste. She is 13 and a bit odd. She carries a life-size cardboard of her brother Finn. Julie grows quite close to the family, even to Finn via Facebook chats and emails but something still doesn’t seem quite right. Overall Opinion: The short answer, I absolutely loved this book. Words can’t describe how much I enjoyed this. I was looking for something that would take me on an emotional roller coaster and this was it. I did catch the plot twist within the first few chapters but I just had to see where…