synopsis
Secrets.
Everyone has one.
Some are bigger than others.
And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you …
And some will end you.
Kate Sedgwick’s life has been anything but typical. She’s endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there’s a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She’s also never believed in love. So when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks.
They both feel it.
But they each have a reason to fight it.
They each have a secret.
And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you …
And some will end you.
My Review
Have you ever read a book with your whole being that it’s feels all so real, so raw, so heartbreaking that you wake up after finishing it at 1am not being able to sleep till about 2am because you are that heartbroken THAT WAS ME with this book!!!!
Iv got to be honest and tell you that I’m glad I was blindsided with this book because if I had known, I would never of picked it up!!! I’m all for heartbreak but I’m all for HEA’s too!!!!
As I’m writing this review I have big fat tears rolling down my face, it’s just that painful, but so beautiful!!!
Katie, Kate, Katherine, Brightside (what ever she is called by her friends) gave me a lesson in life during the story
DO EPIC
BE BRAVE
I have to say Katie is hands down the best heroine i have had the pleasure of meeting ( I know I may have said this before) but I’m telling you after you have read this book, you will not only believe me, but she will be yours too!!!
Ive always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone,the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated, life is complicated!!!
She was infectious, all her friends loved her and wanted to be around her, she was called Brightside for a reason!!!
Gustov what an amazing best friend, iv got to be honest I didn’t get their relationship like Keller didn’t. Keller makes a comment in the book about friends with benefits, he was spot on with the truth!!! Even though they wasn’t friends with benefits, but… Gustov was not only Bright side’s best friend, he was her brother too!!! Their relationship was passionate and beautiful, they were two peas in a pod and when they played together the emotions!!!
Then there was Keller, I loved him from the very first moment, he just had it all, I guessed his secret and what a beautiful secret it was!! Keller was only 22 and had lived more pain than most people in a life time!!! He hide his pain, he hide his secret, he hid that he had parents that had a hold over him, he hid it all just for that little bit of normal!!! He also hid his heart, until the moment that bell chimed and then Katie brought him alive!!!!
What in the hell just happened? I feel like iv been a sleep for years and I’ve only just woke up?
I keep crying when I think about him!!! I just want to rewrite his whole life!!!
I know some people found the first 70% ok, I loved every second of it!! It’s what I love to read boy meets girl, girl meets boy and how they have all these obstacles!!! They overcome Keller’s with flying colours…. But Katie’s I really believe they would even when I knew they couldn’t, I still prayed but surely life won’t be that cruel!!!!!
One-in-a-million they said. But they were MY one in a million
66% onwards I was a sobbing mess there is no other way to explain it!!!! Katie throughout it all stayed the same she was always Brightside!! There is just one moment when Brightside cracks and my goodness I was shouting with her!!! I was crying with her and I felt her fear!!!!
Life is so cruel, so unfair and pain can happen to people more than once, we pray it doesn’t and we pray it won’t but life doesn’t work like that!!!
Why do some people get it lucky and some people don’t, it’s not fair is it?? This book screams not fair!!!!
but as I keep thinking about this book I also keep thinking am I glad I read it, is the pain I’m feeling worth the story I now know?? It’s like life isn’t it!! Would u prefer to be in pain and lived live or not given yourself the chance to live life because you may get hurt!!!! Keller was given this lesson and even though he tried to stay the same just walking through life it’s hard when the person who steps in your way happens to be BRIGHTSIDE!!! But I’m so glad I read this book!!!!
I’m going to leave my review there because I don’t want to give it away but please take a chance at having your heartbroken because Brightside will give you one hell of a lesson in life DUDE