i have no idea what it is abt two messed up people finding solace in each other that gets me so bad but it does. i think this book captures a lot of things pretty well. and chapter 15: even though messed up things happen in it or rather BECAUSE they happen, that chapter remains my favorite from this entire book. admittedly, this book falls a bit in its third act, but the ending scene did strike something in my cold little heart and fog my eyes. ("you won. you won!" "and lost.") like damn. the pain of knowing u're perfect for each other but not being able to be together yet with all the baggage u carry. my biggest disappointment was, and this may sound morbid of me, that eva didn't die. i was fully expecting her to do so in the epilogue. the set up was there. i can also argue that there was suitable foreshadowing and it was exactly what the tone of the epilogue was implying, but instead i got some mushy reunion scene which didn't feel earned at all. now let me skip the depressing stuff and geek abt the stuff i liked in this book in very unseemly fashion: EVA CARVING THEIR INITIALS INTO THEIR ARMS AND BRANDING THEM DJDJSKKS DID SUMN TO ME BRO. AND THE FACT THAT HER EROTICA WAS NAMED "CURSED" BECAUSE MERCIER WOMEN ARE CURSED W BAD LUCK W MEN. and shane hall damn the man that u are ugh. he's so down bad for her. "i love you. dramatically, violently. and forever." >>>>
