Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wanted to like this book, and I’d say for the first 50 pages I did enough. But it was a steady decline after that and a total free fall off a ledge in the end. The gimmicky premise could’ve worked had it actually had any purpose. Instead it was just that...novelty. And the book lacked emotional connection. Characters just saying they have connection and love each other infinitely is not enough to sell us on belief. There instead was a gaping hole of any actual evidential connection. I felt little emotion. And I wanted so badly to. It wasn’t there. There is also a huuuuuge flaw and one that is never addressed in the book. ***spoiler alert*** Dannie and Aaron (Greg) cheat on the person they both apparently love beyond words. What the?? How is this even acceptable. And further it’s so loose ended. And not in the confused character with tough life decisions way. But in the actual, and reference above, lack of any emotional connection way. It was bizarrely callus and actually served no purpose. And the main premise ‘5 years/dream’ itself too...had NO relevance to the story’s unfolding. What a miss. Also let’s talk about the main character. Dannie was such a brat that I found her not even slightly endearing and so I felt no vested interest in her path. All around just not as good as I soooo was hoping for, considering how hyped this book has been. I will give 4 stars for some of the prose though. It seems the author could be a great essayist with her style of writing. But for layers needed for good novel writing, just wasn’t there.