From Goodreads: At seventeen, Roe Daniels didn’t need to believe in fairy tales, she knew they didn’t exist. But when Roe moves to Gaudium Falls to be with her aunt, she finds the elusive friend, a love triangle turned square, and the magic that she would have bet six bucks never existed.

Within a new town Roe doesn’t trust enough to call home, she’ll find a place she knows is too good to get used to and too perfect to trust, and a boy also too close to that description to fall for. She’ll survive the contact with the world that feels so foreign to her and the boy who is big enough to shake that world and her life to its core, or she’ll watch everything she’s just beginning to know and to love burn to glittering ashes at her feet.

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While I think that the premise of the story is solid, I feel like something is missing within the story itself. It’s a very fast paced, relatively short novel, but I feel like it jumps around a bit too much for my taste. Thus, I had difficulty connecting with the characters on a deeper level—I was only able to scratch the surface with them and, though I am interested in their story, I am the type of reader that really needs to connect with the characters in order to feel kinship and become one with the book. Smith does have a killer ending that blew me away, though, and the writing was great, in my opinion, but I would have liked just a touch more development within the story itself. Two and a half stars.

I received a copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review.