The Bookish Island's Book Review:
My Last Kiss by Bethany Neal
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Title: My Last KissAuthor: Bethany Neal
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Pages: 368
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 2015
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Contemporary, Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy, Ghosts
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Date Read: November 24 > December 26, 2018
Rating: ★★★☆☆
What if your last kiss was with the wrong boy?
In Bethany Neal's My Last Kiss, Cassidy Haines remembers her first kiss vividly. It was on the old covered bridge the summer before her freshman year with her boyfriend of three years, Ethan Keys. But her last kiss—the one she shared with someone at her seventeenth birthday party the night she died—is a blur.
Now, Cassidy is trapped in the living world, not only mourning the loss of her human body, but left with the grim suspicion that her untimely death wasn't a suicide as everyone assumes. She can't remember anything from the weeks leading up to her birthday and she's worried that she may have betrayed her boyfriend.
If Cassidy is to uncover the truth about that fateful night and make amends with the only boy she'll ever love, she must face her past and all the decisions she made—good and bad—that led to her last kiss.
My Review:
My Last Kiss was a strange book for me to understand. But in the end, I truly enjoyed it.
Its the author, Bethany Neal's debut novel which can explain why it was a little odd for me to get. The parts where Cassidy went between past, present and even between settings were -I don't even know how to explain it. It was just too much for a story that already has too much going on. Maybe thats just me who feels that way but- yeah.
My Last Kiss starts off great. Cassidy wakes up and realizing that she's dead. She just doesn't know how that happened. She goes through a shift in her being that shows her what exactly happened in the days leading up to her eventual death. It alternates between Cassidy now and what happened before her death. And along the way, she realizes that she had done some things she's not proud of. She ends up wanting to fix things for her friends and the boy she loved with the idea that it might help her pass on. Basically, the main character, Cassidy is dead and as a spirit is stuck among the living till she figures out what really happened to her.
The version of Cassidy before her death did a bunch of things that hurt her friends and her boyfriend, Ethan. And the things she did were a bit much. In other words, she just wasn't the best. At times dumb and too selfish. And the way she treated her childhood friend, Caleb was too much. She basically used him until she didn't have a use for him anymore.
And I don't even what to talk about her relationship with her friends. They couldn't be any more different and yet so similar. And the fact that none of them really talked or saw what was going on between them was shit. I wasn't that close with my friends from high school but I still knew them. Like knowing what was going on with them, whether it was physically, emotionally or in the family. Or maybe I was just a good listener. 😕
Also, the fact that you can be in a group of so-called friends and don't have the slightest hint of intuition that one of them, or more, are harboring ill intentions is just beyond my understanding. I know it's not like in telenovelas where the bad guys are too obvious with their evil faces but its still an intuition thing. Like an aura you just feel. That's why I always say, trust your instincts.
Its the author, Bethany Neal's debut novel which can explain why it was a little odd for me to get. The parts where Cassidy went between past, present and even between settings were -I don't even know how to explain it. It was just too much for a story that already has too much going on. Maybe thats just me who feels that way but- yeah.
My Last Kiss starts off great. Cassidy wakes up and realizing that she's dead. She just doesn't know how that happened. She goes through a shift in her being that shows her what exactly happened in the days leading up to her eventual death. It alternates between Cassidy now and what happened before her death. And along the way, she realizes that she had done some things she's not proud of. She ends up wanting to fix things for her friends and the boy she loved with the idea that it might help her pass on. Basically, the main character, Cassidy is dead and as a spirit is stuck among the living till she figures out what really happened to her.
The version of Cassidy before her death did a bunch of things that hurt her friends and her boyfriend, Ethan. And the things she did were a bit much. In other words, she just wasn't the best. At times dumb and too selfish. And the way she treated her childhood friend, Caleb was too much. She basically used him until she didn't have a use for him anymore.
And I don't even what to talk about her relationship with her friends. They couldn't be any more different and yet so similar. And the fact that none of them really talked or saw what was going on between them was shit. I wasn't that close with my friends from high school but I still knew them. Like knowing what was going on with them, whether it was physically, emotionally or in the family. Or maybe I was just a good listener. 😕
Also, the fact that you can be in a group of so-called friends and don't have the slightest hint of intuition that one of them, or more, are harboring ill intentions is just beyond my understanding. I know it's not like in telenovelas where the bad guys are too obvious with their evil faces but its still an intuition thing. Like an aura you just feel. That's why I always say, trust your instincts.
