I believe the underlying reason I just couldn't like this book was the fact that in the beginning it set me up for a masterpiece. "One part Gatsby, one part John Green" yet it was nothing in comparison. The plot might have been a revised version of Gatsby, but it just fell short to the classic.
When you put a book on that kind of pedestal, the Classic lovers will never feel as though the original work was brought justice. Chris Cole is also no John Green. Green is slowly rising to be one of the best YA authors out there.
Aside from those, the book was hard to follow at times and didn't really flow. I did enjoy the book in the parts that went smoothly. It felt too forced at times. Maisey's speech for one -- I wish people actually talked like this and I know a few people who did/tried to talk like this, so it wasn't too hard to get over; still, I caught myself at times rolling my eyes.
I would read more books by Cole and I will revisit this book again in the future. This was a book I was excited to read, almost like when your favorite book is being made into a movie but then you're also scared to see what parts they'll take out and change. You watch the movie and you're left so brokenhearted that you have to just kind of move on and forget about it, but if you revisit it without the expectations of the original and look at it's own entity then maybe you'll enjoy it. It's just hard to do with the summary saying "One part Gatsby, one part John Green" that keeps resurfacing in your mind as you try to read.
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