Even in Paradise
Author: Chelsey Philpot
Publication Date: October 14th 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
When Julia Buchanan enrolls at St. Anne’s at the beginning of junior year, Charlotte Ryder already knows all about the former senator’s daughter. Most people do... or think they do.
Charlotte certainly never expects she’ll be Julia’s friend. But almost immediately, she is drawn into the larger than-life-new girl’s world—a world of midnight rendezvous, dazzling parties, palatial vacation homes, and fizzy champagne cocktails. And then Charlotte meets, and begins falling for, Julia’s handsome older brother, Sebastian.
But behind her self-assured smiles and toasts to the future, Charlotte soon realizes that Julia is still suffering from a tragedy. A tragedy that the Buchanan family has kept hidden... until now
I wasn't expecting Even in Paradise to be one of those books. You know, the ones that
creep in by charming you, lulling you into a fun sense of security and happy
and then laughs in your face for falling for it. I also wasn't expecting it
to be what it was, this is a story that's already happened. The beginning, a
message from after, reminiscing before the Beginning. The Middle. The End. And
now. Ones like these you're either going to love or hate, I guess you've got to
get the writing style to enjoy it, but it was done beautifully and had a melancholy
feel to it- in a good way. It fitted it entirely, because even though you know
on some level how it's going to end, it still draws you in and pulls you along
to see how we get there.
