Wow, oh wow! I don't think I even have the words for how awful this book actually was. I mean I knew going in it had the potential to be really bad, but this was just...um, yeah! The entire plot was so contrived and cheesy. You have eternal life water and soul mates and past lives and people that are 500 years old. Not to mention Priory of the Sion type groups running amuck. Then you have a disappearance, and absentee mother and a crazy over the topic romantic best friend. There honestly is no other way to describe it all other then a hot mess. And yet I couldn't stop reading it because I had to see just how bad it could get and man it didn't let me down. It was definitely the car crash on the side of the highway that causes miles of backed up traffic. And the sad part is if I can find the second part for under a buck I would probably read it for the safe reason! I know, I have issues! OYE!!!