There were elements of this book that I really enjoyed, but overall, while I liked the book, it was all a bit surface for me and didn’t dig in really deep to anything that happened… and there was a lot that happened.

The story is told first person from Evie’s POV, but while we learned more about Evie’s motivations than anyone else’s, I feel like so much was held back. I completely understood her resistance to getting close to anyone, because eventually everyone leaves. I understood her desire to take things slow with Milo. I understood her complicated feelings about her sister and anger at her mother. Those all made sense. But then she almost instantly decides that Milo is forever. And she doesn’t harbor the same anger at her father, who was also never home, as she does at her mother. But there is nothing that explains her change of heart or why she felt it was different for her father to never be there, but not her mother aside from his job in the military. That job was still a choice.

Every time the story gets to a point where it would be appropriate to go deep, it just grazes the surface and keeps going. Even the deeply hidden family secret gets no deep introspection. And the letters from her mother, while mentioned once or twice, really don’t play a major part and they could have, to explain the past or hint at motivations.

I wanted more of almost everything in this book. Both Evie and Milo grew up on a reservation and they return frequently in the book, but only small glimpses are given to their lives there and the traditions of their tribes. There is so much rich history there, but it is not shared in the story.

On the other hand, there are some very descriptive sex scenes that are not necessary to the story. Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with on the page sex, and love a descriptive sex scene when it moves the story along. But there were a couple of scenes that were really just sex and didn’t advance either the relationship between Milo and Evie, or the plot of the story.

This isn’t a bad book, and it was enjoyable in many ways, I just wanted more.

Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book through Net Galley on behalf of the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.