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 Seems like I am floating in a contemporary boat as of late. This book, along with HOPELESS, were two books I was in fear to read. For no other reason than the content and the hype. I took the plunge with Hopeless- It was time I took the plunge with this. 
 To start; I like the writing. The prose is beautiful. The dual POV are so different there is NO confusion on whom's head your in. The random back story's flowed well into the story. I never felt that they were out of place. BUT. This was a slow read. Sometimes, painfully slow. 
 Ironically, this is also one thing I enjoyed. We watch as two broken people come together in such a boring, mundane but beautiful way. It's refreshing, because sometimes there doesn't necessary need to a HUGE event to happen for us to heal. Sometimes, just having day to day normal contact with certain people is enough. And I thought this was beautiful. 
 The story follows Nastya and Josh. Having different catastrophic events happen to them and they both deal in their own ways. Josh, closing everyone off and Natasya, with silence (and other things). It's made pretty obvious early on what happened to Josh- and why he is the way he is. But with Nastya, is was more a mystery. We were given hints throughout, before the event was revealed. I felt bad for both; (for obvious reasons) but because you could tell early on they loved each other, yet they tormented themselves about it. 
 We also have an array of secondary characters, who play a HUGE part to the story. Drew- who is a larger part, was my favorite. He isn't perfect, he is actually pretty screwed up himself. He brings out different sides of both Nastya and Josh that we wouldn't ordinarily see. And I loved his nickname for Nastya. Made me laugh EVERY.TIME. 
 With the story being so slow, I thought the ending was cheap. It felt too rushed for my liking. It isn't necessarily a bad or even GOOD ending. It just wasn't what I was hoping and it was a little disappointing. Their story isn't over- it leaves us to our own assumptions on how things pan out. 
 Overall~ Beautiful, heart wrenching story. You'll be thinking about this long after you've finished. I highly recommend it. 
 An eARC was provided by netgalley and Atria Books for an honest review.