I have to admit that I think I cheated myself on this book. I loved the beginning. Between Maise's voice, their first meeting and my god, the car-sex, I was completely sold on all of Raeder's pretty words. But after that I expected this deep forbidden love story, and to be honest I never really felt it. I kind of found things a bit repetitive and somewhat boring. And I think that's probably my fault. I was reading all the things and had a busy week and I just couldn't properly enjoy this the way I think I would have had I not had so many distractions. I think I'll have to make a day of re-reading this again in the future to see if that was the case or if I just didn't connect with this book the way others did.