I enjoyed it, the plot got better, it flowed much easier, and the characters became more enjoyable as a whole. Other than everything I’ve said, this is actually quite a good book. I have a bad habit of relying on alcohol to deal with my problems myself, and when this was shown for Logan, I really wanted to be able to connect with him – but it was only in much later pages that I was able to – around the 60s? It was a real shame, I’m gonna admit. When I read, it’s because I really want to connect to characters, especially with Logan. It takes a while for the characters to feel fleshed out, which was a downside for me. Although Watson’s writing seemed very shaky at the start, she has great skill and could easily publish one, in my opinion. I’d love to see this as a long coming of age novel, actually. If they had been, this would be a four star read for sure. The story levelled out and became a continued time line rather than jumping around all over the place and it was much easier to follow – I wish that the whole story had been like this, or the time jumps were done more eloquently. This actually got a lot better than I was expecting. I was going to mark this as did not finish on page 14 of a 90 page ARC, but I decided to read on and give it a shot for a fair review – it’s short, and it’s an ARC so it at least deserves me to try harder than what I was going to do. Like, okay, I know my chosen point here probably isn’t a main part of the story but please, come on. They’re celebrating their three month anniversary. They’re the best looking couple in school. Logan meets Kayleigh in the hallway to the library. One chapter ends and we have a massive time gap with no filler as to what happened at the end of the last chapter. Okay, first of all, this is way too fast.

After this, Logan shows severe anger issues, goes about underage drinking, illegal speed racing, and just goes around breaking the law, basically. This in no way reflected my thoughts on the ARC received.Īfter finding out that his Uncle Gerry is the reason behind his father’s death, Logan immediately cuts him out of his life.

Free copy provided by Netgalley and Lorimer & Company in return for an honest review.

Dead to Me by Cristy Watson