When Marshall King and Elyse Alton suddenly wake up tangled in each other's arms with zero memory of how they got there or even who they are, it's the start of a long journey through their separate pasts and shared future. Terrified by their amnesia, Marshall and Elyse make a pact to work together to find the answers that could restore their missing memories. As they piece together clues about their lives, they discover that they're in the idyllic mountain resort town of  Summer Falls. Everyone seems happy there, but as Marshall and Elyse quickly learn, darkness lurks beneath the town's perfect facade. Not only is the town haunted by sinister ghosts, but none of its living inhabitants retain bad memories of anything- not the death of Marshall's mom, not the hidden violence in Elye's family, not even the day-to-day anguish of being a high schooler. Lonely in this world of happy zombies, Marshall and Elyse fall into an intense relationship founded on their mutual quest for truth. But the secrets they're trying to uncover could be the death of this budding love affair- and of everyone, and everything, they love in Summer Falls.

Alright, here's the thing. This cover is beautiful and I love it. A lot. Buuuut this was no good. I didn't really know what to expect from this by the little blurb but what I got was not even in the realm of what I thought it could be about. With that said, the story line felt super rushed, like Kitanidis tried to cram as much stuff as she could into 347 pages and as much as I hate to say it, it didn't work. There was no real smoothness that you find in really great stories.

As for Elyse and Marshall and their intense and budding love affair, it felt far from real. Even during their really hot hook up scenes. It's clear there was some sort of physical connection but that's as far as it went. It sort of felt like they were banded together because they were both utterly clueless about everything. 

I guess it's true what they say, you can't  judge a book by it's cover.

2 bookmarks out of 5