Release Date: December 1st 2015
Pages: 448
Age Range: Young Adult
Eden Munro is a sixteen year-old who travels from her home in Portland to L.A. Her dad has invited her to spend the summer as his place, with his new wife Ella and her three new stepbrothers.
She is totally clueless what to expect of her dad's new family, and she steps into this summer blank.
She soon is taken under the wing of her stepbrother Tyler, who is the oldest of the tree brothers. He takes her to parties of his friends, where Eden discovers that Tyler is using drugs. And she get's to know Tyler's girlfriend Tiffani, who is claiming Tyler to the max.
During her stay, Eden and Tyler get to know each other better and better, and this leads to a little romance, something thatodd because they are stepbrother and sister. They try to hide their feelings for Eden's dad and Ella and their friends, but this is quite difficult. Especially when Tiffany is told by one of her friends that he saw Tyler with another girl. Tiffani confronts Tyler and tells him she's pregnant of him. It seems Tyler makes a mess off his live, and takes Eden with him.
I liked the most parts of the story, altough I had the feeling this was not the most original YA novel, as a lot of YA novels with a bad boy in it has this type of plot. Eden was a nice main character but she doesn't make any progress throughout the story. She doesn't make any standups against Tyler's bad drugs habits, as far as I remember. Tyler, well, what to say about him? He was just the annoying bad boy character as we have read about in so many other YA novels, nothing new here. It would be an even nicer novel if the author would have choose to let the characters make a change in their lives, but it all stayed the same till the end. It was enjoyable, but not mind blowing or original. I am curious though for the next novel in this trilogy.
This series is published in the US and UK, and it has various nice covers, I truly like the UK covers..
