First of all, check your trigger warnings before diving in to this series – specifically rape.
While I found this book entertaining it does have a lot of flaws. I gave this book a 2.5, the overall story is interesting and I’ve already started the second book just because I’m curious to see where it’s going, but the few problems listed below are why I took an additional star away.
Ocean is a teenage girl, she and her mother are moving to a new town for a fresh start after her father is murdered. Her best friends are 4 men in their 20’s and a gang. This is the first thing that strikes me as strange. The men do not speak or act like grown gang members…
The second thing that stands out as strange and is never addressed… Ocean is enrolled in an all boys school. She never asks anyone why, her Mother never questions it, no one at the school questions it. Very strange.
The biggest thing that I had a problem with is Ocean being raped, but then she is fine the next day, enough so that she even wants to have sex… If you are going to have a characters raped, you should at least have an appropriate response to this action and not just blow it off like it’s nothing.