From the first page to the last I didn’t like how the story developed.
I could continue with Paige, but I’ve said enough I think. Stuff happens to Paige and she handles it badly. The very first line of the summary says that Paige self-sabotages. When she does open up it’s never explored beyond the surface level for so long that by the time we have some kind of deep conversation it still feels lacking. Paige is obviously going through a lot and complains about it, but never talks to anyone. I think we were supposed to believe that she was a self-sabotaging teen, but I never felt that until it was too late. By the time the ‘bad’ Paige comes out we’ve sat with the normal teen Paige for so long it feels like a personality change. The Paige we’re shown and live with and the ‘bad’ Paige are two completely different people. If anything Paige acts like most teenagers, grumpy, angsty and annoyed by her family. We’re TOLD she’s a delinquent, but she never shows it. We’re led to believe there’s some BIG reason she’s being sent to boarding school, but it never comes up. Let’s start with Paige, since this was my biggest problem. I finished this book a few days ago and this is what I’m still thinking about: Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC of this book. Torn between two worlds and two versions of herself, Paige must decide where, and with whom, she truly feels at home. Or, she could go back to Texas and prove for once and for all that she’s more than her mistakes and more than a disease. When her own health fails her, she has the choice of staying at home and receiving care. Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dad’s worsening Crohn’s disease brings her home to Seattle. He even makes her forget about the debilitating stomach cramps she struggles to hide. He’s so different from her, but Paige realizes that may not be a bad thing, especially since being around Joey curbs her urge to vandalize and ignore the rules.
Meanwhile, Paige reluctantly befriends her sister’s straight-laced teenage neighbor, Joey, who is a frequent guest. Paige’s parents sign her up for a rebuilding project in Texas where her sister lives. To make things worse, her parents threaten her with boarding school in the fall if she can’t prove she’s changed her bad habits. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well. Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can’t stop self-sabotaging.
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