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 Sublime will win over many readers over with it's paranormal romance, but readers expecting a traditional ghost story will inevitably be disappointed. There is nothing scary about this novel and it features a romance that eclipses any other plot events. Sublime is solely a romance novel and not even a good one -- this book is filled with cliches and instalove throughout. This is one of the weakest paranormal novels that I've read recently because it lacked any depth and originality. 
 Colin goes to St. Osanna's Prep School where the dead seem to be trapped on the campus for a reason. When Lucy awakes on the campus, she falls in love immediately with Colin and thinks that she is meant to help him out. Colin decides that he needs to be with Lucy and he decides to join himself with Lucy in a special state, even if it means risking his life. Colin and Lucy don't realize understand the consequences of their actions and nothing good can come from their relationship. 
 The adults on campus have to be the most useless supervisors ever because their only purpose in the novel is to push Lucy and Colin together. Some of the adults KNOW that Lucy and the other ghosts are dangerous, but all they do is forbid interactions with the ghosts. So guess what happens? Colin becomes absolutely convinced that their forbidden relationship is love and that it was fate that brought them together. None of the adults take any concrete actions and their presence in the novel irritated me because they had the ability to stop Colin's reckless actions. 
 I love a good romance, but Lucy and Colin don't really understand what it means to be in love at all. They think they are destined to be together, but they are just experiencing lust. The two don't even know each other at all when they "fall in love" and the two spend the entire novel thinking about each other's lips and eyes. Lucy and Colin barely exchange any words throughout the novel that aren't declarations of love; in addition, these two characters know barely anything about each other. Just because you love staring at a girl's fingers or a guy's eyes doesn't make it true love! 
 This novel is filled with painful cliches that feel like they're straight out of Twilight or one of the countless paranormal novels that were released following the success of Stephenie Meyer's series. This novel has nearly ever paranormal romance cliche out there and Christina Lauren merely follow the inane formula for a typical paranormal romance. Colin stalks Lucy in this novel and waits weeks for her, but no one thinks this is anything but normal. Later in the novel, Lucy warns Colin that is too dangerous for them to be together, but Colin doesn't want to be with anyone else. Colin and Lucy can't stay away from each other and they spend a night in a bed just sleeping there chastely, even though he "practically aches for her touch. It's more than hormones." Colin is even willing to face death if it means being with this girl he just meant, his life means nothing to him. 
 Colin has no personality traits, besides the fact that he's a daredevil and doesn't value his life at all. Colin is completely reckless and is willing to skateboard on a frozen lake, even though he knows it's dangerous, just to show Lucy how much he loves her. He is willing to die for her, just so they can be together and that's it. Lucy isn't much better; she knows there's something unhealthy and dangerous about their relationship, but she's too self-centered to break it off. She only wants to feel loved again and she doesn't care about the consequences at all. To put it simply, Lucy is extremely childish and doesn't have a grasp of what love really is. 
 I wish I could say that there were a bunch of redeeming factors about Sublime to make up for it's unhealthy, cliche romance. The only positive attribute I can think of is how easy it is to read and how addicting this book was to read, despite my objection to the romance. I started Sublime late one night and I just had to continue reading, despite how late it was and how problematic this novel was. I was so addicted to this novel that I promptly finished it the next day and this book was definitely a guilty pleasure. I didn't enjoy this novel's plot or characters, but Christina Lauren definitely have immense writing abilities and they know how to keep readers hooked. 
 Sublime is a cliche novel that angered me so much, yet there is something so addicting about this novel. I have a feeling that this novel will have a fair share of fans, but there will also be readers who have a qualm with its "Hush-Hush and Fallen-esque" romance. Sublime follows a rather predictable plot-line and it's cheesy romance isn't any better, I can't possibly recommend this book to anyone.