Sometimes I read things and they just don't register with me. Marguerite is swept into an epic love affair that feels both dangerous and inevitable… The thing is, by going into this thinking, “fabulous cover, the best premise in a long while and so far, great hype” (as I did) you fail to read one line. Hand’s up if you’ve got a soft spot for parallels because holy hell, I do. We’re promised a chase through alternate universes.

Watercolours, reflections and Russia (which I love, setting wise)-it’s everything Jess could ever ask for. I’m going to go ahead and make a grand exclamation: that may just be the most beauteous cover of 2014. Do you or do you not see that brilliantly crafted cover. Here’s a tip for all you out there: read the blurb in depth because your cause of complaint may actually have no merit. I listened to the audiobook and that made my reading experience much more enjoyable, or else this likely would have been 2/5 stars. I absolutely adore the covers to this trilogy, but unfortunately I just didn't enjoy it enough to want to continue. So if you're into that, this would be a great book for you! The love triangle wasn't the worst I've read, and the writing was solid, cliches set aside. The whole inter dimensional time travel scifi thing was well done, and it added a cool element to the story. However, speaking entirely objectively, if you are into the classic style YA, which there is absolutely nothing wrong if you are you read whatever makes you happy, I think you'd really enjoy this. It was too predictable, insta-lovey, and just overall too haven't I read this story before? Younger me would have swooned over this story, but now that I'm more of a mature reader, it doesn't appeal to me.

That's the kind of stuff that I'm just no into anymore. It's very classic Twilight era style YA, featuring a love triangle and basically every other YA trope you can think of, including the male characters protecting the female character always *major eye roll*. This is a case of this book just not being for me.

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