Some secrets are better left untold… protect her secrets—including pulling Kara out of school—have Kara floundering in the dark.
Enter Derek Miller, a former classmate who’s dealing with family issues of his own. His nerdy charm is too much for Kara to resist, and she’s even more amazed when he agrees to help her dig into her mother’s past. Together they investigate her mother’s old friends and boyfriends, hoping to discover who Kara really is. Instead, they find disturbing connections to the dark history of Kent State University, and an ever expanding maze of mystery surrounding Kara’s birth.
As Kara and Derek chase secrets, she realizes he’s the only person she can trust. But as they get closer to the truth, the disturbing answers reveal a web of evil far darker and further reaching than they’d imagined, leaving Kara to wish she’d never asked the questions in the first place.
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This book was way more than I anticipated. It was intriguing and had a unique premise. I’d read a sequel if there was one. I highly recommend it.
Collision was a good read by Kate L. Mary. Kara Jones is eighteen years old and on her way home from college. She gets into a car accident and at the hospital finds out that her family isn’t all it seems. Her mother is acting strange and pulls Kara out of school. Derek Miller is an old classmate who is dealing with his own family problems. Kara can’t resist his charm and he agrees to help her dig into her mother’s past. They are looking into her mom’s former boyfriend’s, looking to find her birth father. Unfortunately they find a dark history at Kent State University. They grow closer to each other as they get closer to the answers. I really enjoyed reading Kara and Derek’s story and can’t wait to read more by the author.
This was an interesting read. Hidden family secrets always find a way to come out. Kara is a believable character. The romance with Derek is a journey as two damaged people hold each other together.
4 Colliding Stars!!
This is a really hard book for me to review. While I really liked this book. I can honestly see myself sitting on the couch watching this as a Lifetime movie. Yet, there was a lot of stuff that drove me up a wall! This was Kate Mary’s debut book and she did a great job.
Kara is on her way home from college in a snowstorm & crashes her car. They need the jaws of life to get her out of the car. Kara honestly didn’t think her life could get worse. That was until she was at the hospital. The nurse is filling her & her parents in on what she hurt & how they are treating her. She mentions a blood transfusion. Her parents offer to help. That’s when her world is just turned upside down.
After spending a few days in the hospital she goes home to find her dad sitting on the snowy front steps. They get inside & her world just crumbles into a million pieces. Kara is told her dad is not her “dad” & he needs to be away from her mother. Now, Kara wants answers and the one person who can answer them, her mom. Refuses to answer them. I mean she let’s Kara know it’s better that you know nothing excerpt your dad. The man that’s been raising you, he is your father. And, that’s that, end of discussion!!
Kara gets pissed & rightfully so. Being that Kara’s cellphone got damaged in the accident. She has no one’s phone #s written down anywhere. She bundles up and walks out. Kara ended up at the bar not that far away from her house. She’s frozen and needs to warm up. Then, shes the bartender and he knows exactly who she is. They went to high school together. Derek Miller. And, man did he look nothing like he did when they were in school together. He lost his whole family in a tragedy when they were still in school.
Kara & Derek get very, very close very fast! Kara & Derek start spending every minute of the day & night together. Kara sets her mind to finding out who her “real daddy” is. Kara realizes it has to be someone her parents went to college with. When she went home one afternoon when her mom wasn’t home. Kara went snooping through her mom’s stuff. Found some names but not much of anything else. Nothing. She had nothing.
Derek has some friends that go to the college her parents went too. They decide to go on a road trip. After a lot of research on Kara and Derek’s part, they have a list of people’s names & telephone numbers. Kara begs her mother 1 last time to tell her. She begs Kara to leave it alone. You don’t want to know.
Lets just say it was a lot of work. A bunch of dead ends. But, Kara gets what she wanted. And, if I was her I’d be kicking my own ass!!
This was definitely a fast paced book. I read it pretty quick considering how long it was. Now, Derek & Kara got on my nerves so much. Kara literally acted like a spoiled brat the whole book! She’s pissed at her mom. I get it 100%. But, she runs into Derek a guy she went to high school with. Yet, she can not remember him at all. Next thing she’s practically living with him. Derek loves having her around. He’s driving her everywhere, paying for everything, giving her his extra car to drive. What!!!
For 2 people who never spoke a word in high school. Then, running into each other. To all “I love you”. Ugh. Made me want to vomit. Both Derek & Kara were running away from their problems. Derek was trying to be someone else. Kara wanted to find out where she really came from. I felt like they were unintentionally using each other.
Granted they were cute together. Kept their minds of what was really going on. I really loved Derek’s friends. They were hysterical! The author did leave it open for book 2. Which my fingers are crossed because I really need to know whats going to happen now that the bomb has been set. I need to know what happens after it went off!!