Just breathe, Kacey. Ten tiny breaths. Seize them. Feel them. Love them.
Four years ago Kacey Cleary's life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, holding her boyfriend's lifeless hand and listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. Armed with two bus tickets, twenty-year-old Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. Struggling to make ends meet, Kacey needs to figure out how to get by. But Kacey's not worried. She can handle anything-anything but her mysterious neighbour in apartment 1D.
Trent Emerson has smouldering blue eyes, deep dimples, and he perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable and Trent is determined to find a way into Kacey's guarded heart-even if it means that an explosive secret could shatter both their worlds.
This book was good but there was a lot of stuff that got on my nerves. The love interest? I knew who he was almost from the very first time we met him. His whole deal kind of weirded me out but everything works out in the end.
The main character, Kacey was hard to like throughout most of the book. I wanted to bean her in the head a time or two because she lived. Everyone else died and she lived and instead of making the most of her life and living a life that her parents could be proud of, she stewed far too long and became a hard person that was hard to relate to and for her sister, she became a person that was hard to love.
Despite all of my issues with the book, I have to give the author credit for keeping me reading. I couldn't put the book down and even though I was disappointed in the end, it was still a book that captured and kept my attention throughout the entire reading.
