But I understand her secrecy, she was trying to protect herself the only way she knew how.

The way how Beyah didn’t tell her dad that her mom died, bugged me! Like…that would be the first thing I’d say, I think.

What happens to them? How does someone like Beyah who had an addict mother, take another path in life – talk about strength and determination.

Some tough topics are covered in this book: poverty, drug abuse, sexual assault – this book is about survival and the kids that fall through the cracks in society.

The twist in the end was heartbreaking.

From the moment they met it was intense between them. They are both damaged and that’s why they are drawn to each other. Beyah finds all her guards giving way the more she spends time with Samson. He’s hiding a lot of secrets which come out in a shocking way. I liked how Beyah judges and we as the readers start doing it too because we only know what they know of him. Beyah is a strong character for someone who has been broken and damaged all her life.

Beyah goes from her mom over-dosing to living with a father she hardly knows.

Triggers: drug abuse, child neglect, broken family, death, overdose, poverty

Writing Style: easy to read, good character development, emotional What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current is coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling.

But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. Beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.

Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim’s parents ever gave her. Categories: contemporary, romance, new adult, poverty, drug abuse

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