By your side By: Kasie West

This book is about Autumn, who gets trapped in a library one weekend with Dax, the schools mystery  boy. What happens during their time there, spirals into many unexpected events. Can one weekend change Autumn’s perspectives forever?

I’m not a very picky reader, I like practically anything I read. Frankly, this book has a lot of potential, but the main protagonist kind of ruined the experience. I really didn’t like Autumn. There wasn’t anything unique about her except for her photography and anxiety, and even those factors weren’t expressed very well. I found her always making the wrong choices which lead to catastrophes, she was annoying, selfish and unappreciative.

This also made it quite unrealistic how quickly the relationship developed between her and Dax, whom unlike Autumn I actually liked. Dax is the slightly stereotypical mysterious bad boy with a pretty tragic past, and it was just really confusing why he fell for her in the first place.

Not only were the relationships unrealistic, but so were the dialogs. I found myself constantly finding flaws during conversations in the book. The language was also quite undescriptive and left too many blank spaces on details that should have been filled.

To be honest, this book just isn’t my cup of tea, but I am still willing to read any of Kasie West’s other books to see if I enjoy them more.