Smashed Into You by Shelly Crane - Review

Smash Into You by Shelly Crane
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Blurb from Goodreads

"Jude has spent the whole twenty one years of his life running. From what, he wasn't quite sure. His mother tried to keep him safe; a low profile, a constant move on the horizon, a week's pay always stashed away. She tried to instill in him that he was special somehow, though would never elaborate. He never felt different. He was so completely normal and vanilla that he wondered if it had all been in her head. But then she was murdered and all he saw was a running silhouette of a man as his mother said three final words to him. Three words that changed his whole being.

Never stop running…

Now he's semi-settled into a big town. The college is huge and easy to blend into. It's been three months since he had to move because 'Biloxi', as he calls the man who killed his mother, found him once more.

Then Marley, an eighteen year old girl who is as infuriating as she is blissfully ignorant of her gorgeousness, smashes into his car with hers. Then smashes into his life as he realizes that whatever it is he has that Biloxi wants, she has it, too. And now, they're after them both."

The story started off having a 'promise'. Meaning it has the essential factors that keeps the readers turning pages. The mysteries and secrets will blow your curiosity. But as I continue reading, the story for me seems to lost it aura. The repeated 'smashed into you' accidents of the two feels like super scripted. There are countless of cliches here that was, 'okay, skip...skip...skip...'. The story line is average, the concept is new but the plot and the story line is like any other stories. I just wish that the story was longer. 'Cause one second I was reading and then the next it was Acknowledgement already. Sorry but I can't help but say 'That's the ending?'. I am not picky when it comes to books but this one literally ended 'lame'. Two barely adults breaking into a research facility and making it out alive is seriously impossible. Take example this one scene where the 'doctors' decided to just burn them instead of shooting them right in their faces. I mean, who the hell will burn down their own facility because they are afraid the two barely adults will tell spill their secrets to the world, right? They are 'researchers, doctors, scientist' they can always think of something when Jude pulled out that alarm. Its just really a waste. I like the concept of stem cell but the story was poorly constructed and there are so many loopholes. Like 'Biloxi' going rampage. What the hell do police do, FBI, CIA, about that?

Marley and Jude is quite the annoying leads. Marley is seriously a pathetic girl. From her past life to her current life. I just hate everything in it. She was the epitome of pathetic and I hate that the author even think of something as her situation. I know that this happens but from what I watch and learn you can always work that can pay rent and mortgage. Also, Marley always need to be protected, its like she wants to join Jude in B&E BioGene but in the end Jude ends up giving his own life for her. Those characters that wants to be a hero/heroine but always end up being the reason why everything falls or why they got arrested or anything as such. Jude, is the epitome of a douche bag. I'm so getting tired of books where girls throw themselves at guys like Jude. Where's the dignity girls? Jude is also predictable. Their love story wasn't that much exciting since a day or two after they met they already love each other.

I already read one book by Shelly Crane, Significance. That too started off great but just like this book, it lost its charisma sometime over the middle part. 

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J xxo