*sigh* I don't know what I was expecting when I picked this book up- I had never heard of it or the author before, but the blurb sounded alluring and the reviews were giving it high praise. And admittedly, it was free. It had all the makings of an awesome book- except it wasn't awesome. It was okay, alright, good enough. But it didn't tug on my heart strings or make me want to ditch sleep. 
 The main character, Emerson, is going through this terrible thing and leaves her house in the middle of the night to get away from him. We never find out his name, btw. It's always just him, italicized and everything. I understand that she was trying to distance herself from him in her mind, but it was annoying. I couldn't feel bad for her or her situation because it wasn't personal enough. And despite what she had been through and all she was going through during the book, her thoughts were shallow, surfacey. And god, she was just so dumb. Like seriously walk-right-into-danger dumb. If she could do something dumb, she did it. Which led to every bad thing imaginable happening. It was a lot. Too much. She was just too much stupidity and woe is me shit. 
 Jay was a much more tolerable character. The whole I love you thing came pretty quickly, but besides that, he was likable enough. I didn't want to punch him in the esophagus like Em. In fact, the only time I thought that maybe I could feel something was when he was narrating. 
 As far as the writing goes...It wasn't terrible or unreadable. I think the first chapter was probably the strongest of the entire book, which is good because it kept me reading. It went downhill from there, however. It's not that it was riddled with grammatical errors, because it wasn't, but it was lacking depth. With the nature of the story, it should have been a tear jerker. It wasn't. It was annoying and all over the place. And then it was all resolved so easily and quickly. (view spoiler)[One minute they were fighting for their lives in a crack house, and the next minute Jay shows up and is all like, Give me Em, you mean man. I all of the sudden have clean clothes and a haircut and a car and a house. (hide spoiler)] 
 Like I said, it wasn't a terrible book. It also wasn't a favorite, or one that I would consider re-reading. Would I recommend it? Probably not, only because there are just so many other books that surpass this one by miles. But obviously I'm in the minority with this opinion, so I guess you can only know if you'll like it if you read it for yourself.