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Seven years ago, I lost him for good. Now he's back, but is he still the Jay Gatsby I used to know…or is he something more? Something…darker. Daisy Finnegan is looking forward to the endless golden freedom of summer. She doesn't want to think about life after college, or the newly awakened power of her voice, which has a way of making people do frightening things. But when her cousin goes missing at an exclusive house party, Daisy confronts the mysterious host…only to discover the wealthy recluse is Jay Gatsby, her childhood sweetheart―now sinfully hot and impossible to deny. It isn't long before Daisy becomes entangled in a web of dizzying wealth and lies and obsession darker than she could have dreamed―culminating in a shocking act of violence that shatters the summer haze and threatens to drown them all. But it isn't until Gatsby is shot through the heart―and survives―that Daisy discovers the truth of how Gatsby clawed his way up in the world by selling the secret of immortality to the highest bidder. Now with her friends' lives at stake, her own untested power still volatile, and an unimaginable threat closing in, Daisy will have to face an impossible choice: side with the man who claimed her body and soul…or with the monsters who would see him lost to her forever. An addictive and truly original spicy New Adult retelling of The Great Gatsby with a magical twist.
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Interesting concept, loved the Gatsby theme situation and I liked Jay. However, the fialogue is where this book lost me. It was honestly very immature and cringey and these are supposed to be characters in their 20s not teens. Personally I do not normally enjoy books with immature MCs but that's how this read. I mean good lord they were both still holding on to so much anger from something that happened years ago when they were kids, and those things were out of their control. Also at one point Jay gets upset with Daisy because she moved on and had sex with someone else...when they hadn't talked to each other in years. Yikes.
Also, Daisy's reaction to Jay's news seems a little far fetched to me as well especially because she is just starting to get to know him again.