Bethany Neal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: June 10th 2014
Read 5-29-14
Format: E-book
Source: Blog Tour with The Fantastic Flying Book Club
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What if your last kiss was with the wrong boy?Cassidy Haines remembers her first kiss vividly. It was on the old covered bridge the summer before her freshman year with her boyfriend of three years, Ethan Keys. But her last kiss–the one she shared with someone at her seventeenth birthday party the night she died–is a blur. Cassidy is trapped in the living world, not only mourning the loss of her human body, but left with the grim suspicion that her untimely death wasn’t a suicide as everyone assumes. She can’t remember anything from the weeks leading up to her birthday and she’s worried that she may have betrayed her boyfriend.If Cassidy is to uncover the truth about that fateful night and make amends with the only boy she’ll ever love, she must face her past and all the decisions she made–good and bad–that led to her last kiss.
I like mystery stories and this book sounded like it could be really good. Cassidy we only see alive for the very first chapter and for the rest of the book she is following others around trying to solve the questions behind her own death and falling into memories as she recovers them. One part I did enjoy was seeing how people reacted to her death, like her family and closest friends. Aimee and Ethan were the characters I liked the most. They were very devoted to Cassidy and great people to her. Madison I never really liked from the beginning because she was so back and forth.
There were a bunch of time jumps since there are so many flashbacks as Cassidy gains memories and we fall into them with her. At several points it confused me when we went into the past because there wasn’t a clear transition all the time, but it becomes easier the more you read. For me, there weren’t any characters that were super amazing, but most of them were likeable. Others could be hard to keep up with because we didn’t really see them enough to care to really remember their names.
Several points of the book were predictable, aside from one that I can think of. And though there was a lot of predictability, I still enjoyed following Cassidy’s story as she unraveled what happened to her and what happens between her and Ethan. Though this book isn’t amazing, it is still an enjoyable read and I recommend it to those who enjoy mysteries and ghost type stories.
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Bethany Neal writes young-adult novels with a little dark side and a lot of kissing! She is obsessed with (but not limited to): nail polish, ginormous rings, pigs, pickles, and dessert.You can find her locked in her Writertorium for insane amounts of time. But, hey, insanity is fun! My Last Kiss is her first novel.
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I’ve been so excited about this book for so long! I’m interested to see if I pick out the plotlines that you did. I think reading about Cassidy’s family and friends’ reactions to her death would be kind of heartbreaking.
Flashbacks and time jumps don’t usually confuse me, but it’s a shame they confused you!
I am still desperate to get a hand on this novel 😀
The flashbacks don’t usually confuse me either, but sometimes in this one there is no warning about a time jump and THAT is what ends up confusing me, lol. The most heartbreaking one of her family members dealing with her death was her little sister. I know I would hate to lose one of my siblings and it would be so so hard to cope!