Rory ends up bringing Callum with her for the first night, and all but forgets about him before he even leaves. (Which spoiler alert, she did not do.) He conducts this elaborate scheme with her boss to have her go with him to his home country in Ireland, have her document Mals writing process (she’s a photographer) and take another big named star with them as well. He’s cold, ruthless, guarded, and wants to destroy her the way she destroyed him. She tried go change herself for her boyfriend Callum (who is the absolute worst, and I saw that philandering twist of his a mile away.) And them she bends over backwards to please Mal, who emotionally manipulates her at every turn.įuture Mal is nothing like the sweet boy she left behind. And I don’t want to make that a bad thing, because forgiveness is a great quality to have, but it got to the point where she was a doormat. Future Rory is where I has my issues: she’s way to forgiving. So much so, that they make a pact to marry each other despite their future romantic situations if they ever see each other again. When she meets Mal, she instantly is drawn to him, and even though she fights it, they spend a night together that will forever be etched info their souls. Rory is someone I loved at the beginning, too: feisty American girl who travels abroad in search for the truth about her father, only to end up with more questions than answers.

I got swept away in the first few chapters, and in the start of the flashback scenes because this author can turn a prose like no other, but it soon fell flat for me. Mal was a superficial, overbearing, condescending, rude, and is just so not what I pictured he would be like. I really, really didn’t like or connect with our main characters.

In the unlikely event lj shen