Synopsis from the Author
Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Dark and thunderous, furious and fierce. Cold, heartless and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. The school with his family name on the sign. He can do no wrong here. This is his domain.
He’s a menace on campus. Adored and feared. Hated and respected. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand.
When I stumble upon him one night alone, I find him broken. Bleeding. My instincts scream to leave and let him suffer, but I can’t. I sneak him into my room. Clean him up. Fall for his lies. Let him possess every single part of me until I’m the one left a gasping, broken mess.
When he leaves me alone in the dead of night, he takes my journal with him.
Now he knows all my secrets. My hate. My truth. And he promises to use my words against me. I’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out.
That’s when I strike a bargain with the devil.
I’ll let Whit Lancaster ruin me behind closed doors instead.
Things I Loved & Things I Struggled With
This was a ‘no’ for me. I don’t know why I forced myself to finish reading it. I guess I’m just a sucker for a happy ending, which the book did have.
Maybe because the characters were sill in high school, but it their actions were just too immature. Too many miscommunications. (Miscommunications that could have been avoided.) Summer and Whit has just been one of the most frustrating characters I had to read. The character development was just too weak. It still felt like they didn’t grow at all even towards the end of the book. Too immature and too degrading. Almost didn’t continue reading.
I do love the good kind 'strange relationship (hate) but actually love and care about each other' of them.
It was too long—she just could not stand for herself. Like she just let Whit degrade her😭 I get that she experienced so much pain and darkness (even raped by her step brother with her mother knowing and not doing anything), but I still feel like the author dragged her deep but never really got her back up by herself. Like she needed someone to do that for her.
I love a good prince charming, but Summer also needed that power to herself. So I liked the part where she made him work to get her back.
Well, it was good for her to leave a situation so that she can grow and be independent herself. But I would have loved to see her stand up for herself against Whit's mother (and not just be ignoring her as much as possible in the end).
There were definitely things they wanted to say to each other, but they just end up in ben together instead.