The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.
Full of rage and without a purpose, former pianist Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone discovering her past and to make the boy who took everything from her pay.
All 17 year-old Josh Bennett wants is to build furniture and be left alone, and everyone allows it because it’s easier to pretend he doesn’t exist. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.
Everyone except Nastya, a hot mess of a girl who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. The more he gets to know her, the more of a mystery she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he may ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding or if he even wants to.

This was one of those books that could've gotten a 5 star rating...but then as the story progressed, it grew more and more cliched and meh. I mean, I loved the book after finishing it, but now after further reflection, I realized how very cheesy this book was. Broken girl with a dark past. Broken boy with a dark past. Boy doesn't talk much. Girl doesn't talk at all (seriously, there was a point in the first few chapters where I thought her tongue had been cut off). But then Girl talks to boy (or at least stalks him and then stares all the time in a "not-at-all" creepy way).  Said boy and girl fall in luuurve. But Girl's dark past becomes a  problem. Stuff happens. Problems get sort-of resolved. Happy ending. 

One thing I hate in YA Contemporaries is double p.o.v, I mean there's no confusing plot line or too many main characters who are in different situations, then why am I reading the same feelings with just the gender of he narrator changed. WHY? And then there was Nastya, whom I couldn't like, no matter how hard I tried. What happened to her was beyond horrible, but her reaction to it? what can I say.

The book was  intense and I loved some parts of it (DREW)and I went through it really fast, and I might've shed a few tears when the big secret is revealed. But when it came to rating the book, I just couldn't give it a 4.

so yeah,

3 STARS

 Don't let this review hold you down, most people have loved it.

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