Read: July 2013
“Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.”
For the summer, Lana decides to stay with her best friend Sasha in
London before she has to go back to school in the fall. Lana and Sasha
have been best friends ever since Sasha and her twin brother, Robert,
moved to Ireland with their mother when they were fourteen and Lana was
twelve. Lana and Sasha instantly became best friends but Robert grows
disdainful towards Lana for taking his sister away from him. Years go by
where Robert constantly torments Lana. It has been six years since she
has last seen Robert. When she goes to stay with Sasha she is surprised
to find out she will be living with Robert all summer, but not only
that, he is going to nice to her. How can Robert and Lana have a
relationship when it’s based off of cruelty?
I loved it!
In books like this where heroine is in love with her bully it makes
it hard to sympathize when they give in so easily and I’m happy that
Lana’s character wasn’t like that. Lana was still wary of Robert even
though it had been six years since they have seen each other. Lana’s
character was nice but also shy. Though out the book she really breaks
through that shyness and becomes more confident in her self, ironically
with the help of Robert.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of Robert and I am usually one to fall for
the hero rather than the heroine’s character, but I didn’t hate him
despite the bullying. Even with the few glimpses that were shown in the
interludes, the bullying did some damage on Lana, that caused her to be
that shy and introverted person. I also understand that Robert grew to
be a better person with Lana as well. I didn’t hate him, I just didn’t
like his personality.
All that being said this book was a character driven and well
written. Especially the steamy scenes between Robert and Lana! You could
defiantly feel the steam between the two every time they were together.
The only thing I didn’t really love was when Lana catches Robert taking
pictures of her. I thought the reactions from bother character made it
more creepy than it actually was. I liked that Robert was into
photography, but that certain moment made out like he had an unhealthy
obsession with her. For the rest of the story I don’t feel creep-ed out
or that Robert was unstable at all which was just made that chapter a
little odd to me.
Sometimes it is hard to give books like this a rating because of
bullying that goes on in it. I obviously am not someone who thinks
bullying is okay at all or find any reason that make it okay
what-so-ever, but I do enjoy books that, for some reason, when the bully
falls in love with their victim. I was between giving this novel 4
stars and 5 stars so i really give it 4.5 stars (which you can’t do on
goodreads).
I would recommend it to those who like male pov, heroine falls in love with her best friends brother, and don’t mind the bullying aspect (because it can put some people off.)
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