I wish I had a chance to have read this but when i tried to download it I could not and now is archived to my rating would be on the excerpt and cover. I wish i could have done better.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC copy!

Short Blurb:

Haruna Mitsukai is an overachiever with dreams of attending the University of British Columbia.

Ryu Debiru is a bad boy whose only desire is to escape this ridiculous prison called "life."

Both attend Shady Glenn Academy and despite their similar "hafu" identity, they couldn't despise each other more.

Years of avoidance come to an end when a major assignment on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice pairs them together.

Just as everything reaches a breaking point, revelations about an old East Side mansion called "Heaven" causes Haruna to question everything she thought she knew about him.

As for Ryu? Well, all that glitters is most certainly not gold.

Cover Review:

The cover isn't anything specially artistic or intriguing, it displays the face of a girl (Haruna, probably) though it'd make me want to pick it up and know more about it. The cover wasn't intriguing, but it was interesting all the same.

Review:

I tried hard. Really hard. But I still couldn't get into this book. Maybe it just wasn't for me.

I found this book too slow paced for my liking. I couldn't get into the story, not at all.

Maybe it was the writing style or maybe the storyline (or lack thereof, as far as I managed to read) but I couldn't connect to any of the characters.

I neither liked, nor disliked any of the characters or parts. I couldn't judge them because I didn't...feel them? Connect to them?

So yeah, Judge by the cover proved to be a lousy read for me.