Goodreads blurb:
There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
Luck was not on Callie’s side the day of her twelfth birthday when everything was stolen from her. After it’s all over, she locks up her feelings and vows never to tell anyone what happened. Six years later her painful past consumes her life and most days it’s a struggle just to breathe.
For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence was the only way to survive life. As long as he did what he was told, everything was okay. One night, after making a terrible mistake, it seems like his life might be over. Luck was on his side, though, when Callie coincidentally is in the right place at the right time and saves him.
Now he can’t stop thinking about the girl he saw at school, but never really knew. When he ends up at the same college as Callie, he does everything he can to try to get to know her. But Callie is reserved and closed off. The more he tries to be part of her life, the more he realizes Callie might need to be saved.
“There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.”
I started reading this book completely randomly, I couldn't sleep so I picked my phone up opened my kindle app and chose a book without even knowing what it was about.
This is the story of Callie and Kayden. They have known each other for a long time, they have gone to school together since they were in kindergarten and their families have dinners together, but Kayden always pretended like he didn't know Callie.
I can't even tell you how great Callie is, she is one of those characters that really touched me, I understood her so well.
On her twelfth birthday something really bad happened to her and since then everything changed. She has locked up her feelings and vowed to never tell anyone what happened on that day.
Callie has problems with people touching her, so everything social related is a problem to her.
When she moves to college everything starts to get better, she meets Seth, her first friend since her twelfth birthday and he is the first person to know about her secret and he helps her getting better. Together they make a list of things that they would normally never do and each week they have to cross off at least one thing, even if they are scared they have to do it.
Callie thought of telling what happened to her to her mom, but because her mom leaves in a bubble and doesn't want nor care about the bad things that happen in the world she doesn't.
Kayden always had a hard life, beaten by his father since he was little, he does everything that his father wants him to do, including playing football.
One day, luckily for Kayden, Callie is in the right place at the right time and saves him.
“In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.”
Coincidentally Callie and Kayden end up in the same college, Callie trying to stay away from everything that makes her remember that horrible night and Kayden trying to stay away from his father.
Kayden becomes interested in Callie, the girl that did what he thought no one would ever do, the girl that he really never paid attention to but that now he can’t stop thinking about.
Callie trusts Seth, and she doesn't really trust other people so when Callie and Kayden start to go out together, Kayden starts to wonder how would be like for someone like her to trust him but he thinks that he has too many twisted secrets for that to ever happen.
“There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It’s like they’re opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.”
The book switches between both characters POV's. Is very interesting learning about the characters from their point of view, since there are things about one another that they don't know about the entire book.
Towards the end I was getting so nervous, I couldn't be still, I didn't have any idea about what was about to happen. It was the best end that I ever read.
It completely broke my heart, I couldn't stop crying, and I was already crying during most parts of the book. I couldn't believe that it was ending that way, I switched pages over and over again to make sure that it was it. I was really not expecting a cliffhanger.
The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden became one of my favorite books.
I loved the characters, really connected with them and loved how Callie changed so well, it wasn't rushed, like one minute she had problems and then minutes later everything just went away, it made the character look much more real.
The book made me believe that even if you are in a really dark place in your life it can get better, to never give up on happiness.
Jessica is a really amazing writer, I really look forward to read more of her books.
You should definitely read this book, I guarantee that it will not let you down.
There will be a second book to this series, The Redemption of Callie and Kayden that is coming out on August 6th, 2013. I'm super excited to read it.
I just have to add one more quote that I really loved and that really made me think.
“I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it’s put into their minds at birth, or if it is learned as they grow. Maybe is even forced upon them by circumstances that are out of their hands. Does anyone have control over their lives or are we all helpless?”
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