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Some say love is deadly. Some say love is beautiful. I say it is both.

Faith Watters spent her junior year traveling the world, studying in exquisite places, before returning to Oviedo High School. From the outside her life is picture-perfect. Captain of the dance team. Popular. Happy. Too bad it’s all a lie.

It will haunt me. It will claim me. It will shatter me. And I don't care.

Eighteen-year-old Diego Alvarez hates his new life in the States, but staying in Cuba is not an option. Covered in tattoos and scars, Diego doesn't stand a chance of fitting in. Nor does he want to. His only concern is staying hidden from his past—a past, which if it were to surface, would cost him everything. Including his life.

At Oviedo High School, it seems that Faith Watters and Diego Alvarez do not belong together. But fate is as tricky as it is lovely. Freedom with no restraint is what they long for. What they get is something different entirely.

Love—it will ruin you and save you, both.

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About Amber Hart
Amber Hart grew up in Orlando, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. She now resides on the Florida coastline with family. When unable to find a book, she can be found writing, daydreaming, or with her toes in the sand. She's the author of BEFORE YOU, AFTER US, UNTIL YOU FIND ME, and sequel to UNTIL YOU FIND ME (untitled as of yet). Represented by Beth Miller of Writers House. 

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ABOUT AMBER HART

Amber Hart grew up in Orlando, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. She now resides on the Florida coastline with family. When unable to find a book, she can be found writing, daydreaming, or with her toes in the sand. She's the author of BEFORE YOU, AFTER US, UNTIL YOU FIND ME, and sequel to UNTIL YOU FIND ME (untitled as of yet). Represented by Beth Miller of Writers House.

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3.5 stars

Before You tells the story of Faith, the daughter of the Pastor, who feels like she needs to be someone she is not. Right off the bat, you knew there was something under the surface going on with Faith. She puts on a fake font. She seems happy on the outside, but there is more going on inside. She is like a volcano awaiting to erupt. 

 Diego is the new kids at school. Although he is not really a kid. He is 18 /19 and just got here from Cuba because his parents want a better life for him. He needed out of where he was from because he was in a world of trouble there. Not your typical teenage trouble either. Diego was in with the cartel. Now Diego is in America, working 2 part time jobs and living in a tiny apartment, and being recruited by the local gang. Not what he envisioned for the "American Dream". 

 Faith is assigned to show Diego around school his first week. There sparks fly. There is an attraction between both of them right off the bat, but this is good girl/bad boy dynamic. A forbidden love. Both knows the other is not right for them, but can't fight the attraction. 

 There are so many reasons why the two of them shouldn't be together. Faith has a boyfriend and Diego is not boyfriend material. But, somehow this works. It is a forbidden high school romance that turns into much more. Even though the main character are young, they are very mature. 

 The ending will leave you speechless. I was in pure shock when I was reading it. There is a huge twist that I never saw coming. 

 Overall, I enjoyed this book. I usually read older, high school is not really my thing, but I enjoyed the story. 
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