Never read this author before and this was a 3 book it's the series, I try never to get started in the middle of a series before. Overall it was great, kept my attention, I shed a few tears, I felt Gwen's pain with the whole âeveryone is better off without or knowing me', invisible and needing to have a friend to support, protect and ultimately leave for someone or something better. The pain of having your secret crush back but leaving and breaking your fragile heart for good.
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This was very emotional from start to finish, Gwen was raised with a women that didn't love her as a daughter and so Gwen was raised by her self but with hatred spewed at her all the time, controlling with ârules' never helping with homework when Gwen needed help and just a mean b!tâ¬h to Gwen. So that abuse made Gwen need trust and friendship from her childhood neighbor and friend August. She fell for him but with her shelf asteem gone she didn't know who to say or show August her feelings and when he started to date her so call gal fiend Kayla, Gwen removed herself from August, but Kayla used Gwen's depression against her and made it look like August saw Gwen as a charity case. Kayla put Gwen down towards August.
At 19, in college on her birthday Gwen tortured herself with Facebook to look up August and still saw Kayla in the pictures and with a ring. That messed her up and she was drunk and sleep with her at the time friend August's twin brother. A night she will forever call WTF because August shows up like right after Gwen and brother get âdone'. That night will cause so must time of resentment, anger, hurt and betrayal for August and Gwen too. That night turned both paths so fer away,
9 years later August is a musician in Europe and Germany touring when he recives a letter from a person so shocking to recive from and it brings up all the old emotions he buried for 9 years almost to the date. Gwen has friends and love from her best friends, adrenaline junkie, CrossFit and a great job finding parents for children to be adopted to, a fulfilling career even if her mother passed she loved her independence. But said mother passing brings touch choices and one is August when he arrives on her mother's doorstep 2 months after the women passed and for a mysterious suitcase that's been missing since 2001 but the diary was dated 1988-89, the year Gwen was born. What reads, follows and discovers will bring to light what her mother, grandparents, aunt were like and it's a different version of the women who raised her.
Possible spoiler...
This was very emotional from start to finish, Gwen was raised with a women that didn't love her as a daughter and so Gwen was raised by her self but with hatred spewed at her all the time, controlling with ârules' never helping with homework when Gwen needed help and just a mean b!tâ¬h to Gwen. So that abuse made Gwen need trust and friendship from her childhood neighbor and friend August. She fell for him but with her shelf asteem gone she didn't know who to say or show August her feelings and when he started to date her so call gal fiend Kayla, Gwen removed herself from August, but Kayla used Gwen's depression against her and made it look like August saw Gwen as a charity case. Kayla put Gwen down towards August.
At 19, in college on her birthday Gwen tortured herself with Facebook to look up August and still saw Kayla in the pictures and with a ring. That messed her up and she was drunk and sleep with her at the time friend August's twin brother. A night she will forever call WTF because August shows up like right after Gwen and brother get âdone'. That night will cause so must time of resentment, anger, hurt and betrayal for August and Gwen too. That night turned both paths so fer away,
9 years later August is a musician in Europe and Germany touring when he recives a letter from a person so shocking to recive from and it brings up all the old emotions he buried for 9 years almost to the date. Gwen has friends and love from her best friends, adrenaline junkie, CrossFit and a great job finding parents for children to be adopted to, a fulfilling career even if her mother passed she loved her independence. But said mother passing brings touch choices and one is August when he arrives on her mother's doorstep 2 months after the women passed and for a mysterious suitcase that's been missing since 2001 but the diary was dated 1988-89, the year Gwen was born. What reads, follows and discovers will bring to light what her mother, grandparents, aunt were like and it's a different version of the women who raised her.
