Review: How to Save a Life by Emma Scott

Title: How to Save a Life
Author: Emma Scott
Series: none
Genre: contemporary romance

Josephine Clark is trapped. A harrowing past haunts her every time she looks in the mirror, and she can’t escape the violence of her everyday life. More and more, her thoughts turn to Evan Salinger, the boy she knew in high school. The boy they called a mental case. A loner. A freak. The boy who seemed to know things no one could know. For a few short weeks, Jo had found perfect solace in Evan’s company, sneaking every night to meet him at the local pool. In the cool of the water and the warmth of Evan’s arms around her, Jo had tasted something close to happiness.

Cruel circumstances tore them apart, and four years later, the sweet memory of their time together is dissolving under the punishing reality of Jo’s life now. Evan seems like a fading dream…until he reappears at the moment she needs him most. Guided by Evan’s strange intuition, they flee her small Louisiana town, and Jo begins to suspect there is something more to his sudden return than he admits.

Over twelve days across America’s heartland, deep secrets come to light, buried pasts are unearthed, and the line between dreams and reality is blurred as Evan and Jo fight to hold on to their soul-deep love, and discover that there is more than one way to save a life.
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How to Save a Life is a complete second-chance STANDALONE novel with shades of the paranormal. It carries the characters from high school through to their early twenties. It is not YA; mature subject matter, and sexual situations. TRIGGER WARNING: domestic violence (on the page) and mention of sexual abuse (off the page) For readers 18 years and up. The Dreamcatcher novels are a series of interconnected STANDALONES, each with shades of the paranormal. It is NOT necessary to read them in order, though some characters appear in other novels.

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SANDY’S REVIEW

TRAIN WRECK!!

It started off well, but the way this story progressed was nothing short of a mess. I feel the idea was to bring out the angst in this story, but the author overdid the drama making it difficult to connect with the story or the characters. Before you have to time to wrap your head around the unfortunate incident, there's always a different disaster waiting to happen. Not to mention the plot holes, which went unexplained until the end.

With one-dimensional character, underwhelming plot and overdone angst How to Save a Life was a disappointment. I'm going with 2 stars just for her writing.