SO MANY MIXED FEELINGS 
 This book in two words: 
 I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. What I do know is that there were parts I loved and parts I didn't. But mostly, I loved it. Weirdly enough, I'm in the minority here. I'm never the one that enjoys a book that everyone else hated/didn't like. It's usually the other way around. 
 In the middle of a blizzard, Zoe lets her little brother go outside and play with the dogs because he was annoying. Not really a good start to the book. Surprise surprise, her little brother Jonah disappears outside in the snow. Zoe begrudgingly throws on her boots and coat to go look for him. She eventually finds him far away from the house and face down in the snow. She carries him to their recently deceased neighbor's house which is closer than their own house and goes inside. 
 Jonah is okay, just really really cold. Their momentary peace is interrupted by Stan, an evil stark raving lunatic that neither of them knows. He has a specific reason for being at the couple's house and refuses to leave before it's done. Stan turns his attention on Zoe and her brother and things go from bad to worse. Just before Stan is about to carry out his evil misdeeds, a man shows up and stops him. An otherworldly impossibly strong man who is clearly not normal. He is X, a bounty hunter from a place called The Lowlands, a weird version of hell, and he's there to collect Stan's soul. X is immediately drawn to Zoe and breaks every rule from the Lowlands including telling her his story. X was born in hell and is forced to collect souls (bad ones of course). Zoe opens up to X about her father's recent death and as X stays with Zoe's family for a few days, they fall in love. X knows he cannot stay long, the fact that he's revealed himself to Zoe and her family puts them in danger and X has to return to hell. Determined to be together, X tries to find a way to be with her. 
 Zoe rubbed me the wrong way. There really wasn't much to like. You know when you see a movie that is really good but only one of the actors are actually doing a good job and they end up carrying the entire movie? X is that good actor. Zoe, not so much. I think without X's awesomeness, I would have hated this book. She was very difficult to like. She was so detached from anyone other than X that she came off as a cold and selfish. She didn't really treat anyone well. Not her mother, her brother, or her friends. I don't know if it was intentional. Was she supposed to be that way because of her father's death? Did she close herself off from those close to her on purpose? Maybe. I highly doubt it though. She was just selfish. 
 X was just awesome. He gets two stars just for being X. Every time the book was in his POV I just wanted to reach through and give him a hug. He was so damaged and so sweet. And justifiably so. He was so thankful for kindness and the complete opposite of Zoe. He would have done anything for her or family. He did do everything for them. She did not deserve him. No one does! Despite his opinions on his own self-worth, he deserved everything and more. 
 The way that X collects his souls is just fascinating. I mean, for one, it's murder. I don't mean that murder is cool or fascinating, just that I loved that the process isn't pretty or romanticized, it's just straight up murder, then soul reaping. I wondered throughout how the souls the bounty hunters are ordered to collect are chosen, but I decided that it must evils souls that are going without punishment. It isn't like the supernatural bounty hunters are popping into prisons and taking people. It seems to be the evil people walking among everyone else continuing to hurt people. During their soul-reaping, the evil folks are forced to watch all of their sins via a supernatural projection onto X's back. There are a lot of flashing colors and honestly, it was bizarre in the best way. I was not a fan of the fact that Zoe takes a picture of the entire ordeal with Stan and posts a picture on Instagram. Girl, what the hell are you thinking? If I were watching a supernatural soul-reaping/murder happening the last thing on my mind would be social media. It was a stupid move on her part and really just added to the many reasons I didn't like Zoe. 
 There is one of the most instant insta-loves I've ever read but it didn't really bother me. Maybe because it was supernatural. Supernatural insta love is a lot easier to explain. Because this was PG YA, it couldn't be blamed on lust. Neither is thinking that they want to jump each other bones, but they love who each other are. It bordered on the absurd, but hey, love at first sight and all that. Also, X isn't a complete douche to her before falling in love with her. Most of the male characters in insta-love are. The first example that comes to mind is Twilight. Edward was such a massive asshat to Bella before they decided they were meant for each other. X comes off as stand-offish but it's because he has no experience being around people. He may be socially inept but wants desperately to learn. 
 Now, my biggest issue. That ending. Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? It made no sense. None. I realize that the author needed to set things up for a second book but that isn't an excuse. There were a million ways it could have gone and it just all went hell (haha I'm punny). I was left with a weird combination of anger and confusion. An emotion I shall now refer to as Angfusion. 
 But you know what? I'll still read the next book when it comes out. I'm so invested in this I just have to know what happens next. I need to know what happens next. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?