** spoiler alert ** 
 I still haven't decided how many stars I'm going to give this as I write my review so I'm going to just start listing things and see where I end up... 
 1. Josh is the most controlling male lead 
 2. Hannah needed a backbone 
 3. I like crazy alpha male book boyfriends but Josh went way too far too many times 
 Okay. Point number one... This book follows the MC's for about 6 years and even further in the epilogue. At the beginning of the book Josh is 18 and Hannah is 15. They really like each other and it turns into complete obsession for Josh. Like... "Lock your doors and pull the blinds on the windows because dude is probably trying to get in..." obsession. He won't let Hannah have male friends, he HATES that her family comes from money. So much so that he calls her adoptive father her step-father because he wants to disassociate Hannah from her family, they "break-up" and he is so psycho that he tells everyone they are still together. He screams at her because she told her mom they broke up and then when another guy makes a move on her and kisses her he basically says that Ty (the other guy) took away the fact that Josh was the only person that she ever tasted. Or some such nonsense that was totally gross and repulsive. 
 Point number two... Hannah needs a backbone. For real! I get that she got all gooey when Josh was bossy. I'm not gonna lie.. Bossy book boyfriends are so much fun but COME ON!!! HE MADE HER GO TO COLLEGE. I know the "feminists" of the world will be like "heck yes! Rock on dude! Women and education and making a life on their own" crap. BARF. I'm more like... Uh... How do you make your girl go to college? THAT is what bothered me. She wanted to get married and go to a college near home but he made her go to a 4 year college. Women can decide what they want for themselves thank you very much. She was too forgiving of his psycho-ness. He yells, demands, claims she is his property, lets jealousy eat at him and all she does is melt at his amazingness. 
 Okay point three... I love Alpha males. I do. Like I'm obsessed and usually the crazier the better. I'm at a loss with this book though because Josh was the craziest of any book I can really remember. Their age and situations just didn't match his intensity. I liked that he was possessive, controlling and stayed that way through to the end. I did not like that he went so over the top I ended up hating him. There it is. I said it... I actually hated him. There wasn't enough give and take for me. Wasn't enough self sacrifice and growth for me to be okay with her needing his consent to permission or whatever. He owned her. He told her more than once that he owned her. I'm not into owning when it comes to that... Even my favorites in the crazy department stayed alpha but grew as a person. They changed in GOOD ways. I don't know maybe this is all a rambling mess. I feel like my brain is a mess right now. 
 I'm going with 2.5-3 stars. The writing was perfect, the story was well rounded with plenty of things to keep me reading. I just... didn't.... like... Josh. I didn't like that at the end of the book I felt like this was the most unhealthy book relationship I've read for this age group. I'm annoyed because I like the personality traits Josh had in a book boyfriend and now I have to regroup and read a good book that represents that kind of relationship in a different manner. Maybe that didn't make sense. I know a lot of people hate this type of relationship, but I like them in books. (NOT THIS ONE THOUGH!) Like I said, changing in a good way and remaining an alpha male is totally doable. I don't know. That is all. I can't think of anything else.