Christy and Austin are not your average 17-year-olds, but not for the reasons they think. Neither one of them have memories of their childhoods before they met four years ago in an orphanage. Now, at 17, they're each living on their own, with very few real connections to anybody other than each other. One day, they stumble into a situation so strange that they can't even trust what they thought to be true about themselves or each other.
This was not the book for me. I don't mind the occasional thriller novel, or a good mystery, but I do not enjoy psychological mind games; especially when the plot gets so twisted that even the reader can no longer tell what is real and what is delusion. And in no scenario do I find a story that includes convincing a young girl that her worst self-image is not only true, but that she's uglier than she thinks, and then using horrific cosmetic surgery to alter her body, in no way do I think that's an enjoyable storyline. No matter the lessons that she supposedly learns at the end, the ends did not justify the means in this story for me.
I give this book 2 stars. It was not badly written, it was just not, in any way, the type of book I enjoy. If you enjoyed Dekker's Showdown, then you may enjoy this.
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I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, from the publisher, in exchange for my honest review.
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