Jessica Sorensen
Series: The Coincidence #1
Publication date: December 13th 2012
Rating: 5 stars
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There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden was nothing short of amazing.
Luck was not on Callie’s side the day of her twelfth birthday when everything was stolen from her. After it’s all over, she locks up her feelings and vows never to tell anyone what happened. Six years later her painful past consumes her life and most days it’s a struggle just to breathe.
For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence was the only way to survive life. As long as he did what he was told, everything was okay. One night, after making a terrible mistake, it seems like his life might be over. Luck was on his side, though, when Callie coincidentally is in the right place at the right time and saves him.
Now he can’t stop thinking about the girl he saw at school, but never really knew. When he ends up at the same college as Callie, he does everything he can to try to get to know her. But Callie is reserved and closed off. The more he tries to be part of her life, the more he realizes Callie might need to be saved.
It was the kind of book that as soon as I began reading it I couldn't put it down. I think I read it all in about a morning, and then spent the rest of the day feeling kind of dazes and sad that the story was over.
Both Callie and Kayden had been through terrible things when they were younger, and this is a story about how they both learn to deal with the trauma with the help from their friends and each other. The way the different points of view flow and come together are great, and we get all the information we need from both sides without feeling like we're missing something important or like something got lost in the way.
My absolute favorite thing about it was The List, created by Callie's best friend Seth. That because of it Callie learned how to deal with what she went through and how it forced her to push her boundaries, make new memories, and learn how to trust people again. And how, because of that, Kayden figured out that he was strong enough to stand up for himself.
It gave me all the warm feelings reading about their relationship and how they helped each other get better - how they saved each other from the darkness in their lives. It was just a really really really good book, and I'm sad that it's over.
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