I had never read anything by Abbi Glines before but I was pleasantly surprised reading this. The characters were interesting and the plot kept you wondering what would happen. I was thrown a little by the twist in the middle, but the story still continued well. I'm not usually a heavy romance fan but I enjoyed this one.

As a avid Abbi Glines reader meaning I have read all her books and highly anticipate anything she comes out with. I just knew As She Fades was going to be good, however I didn't know it would break my heart more then any of her other books.

Val is one of those characters you cant keep but routing for and when her heart is broken by her high school sweetheart I felt like I was right by her wiping her tears away telling her it would all be ok. She has such a beautiful heart and her connection to me the reader was phenomenal.
State let me tell you the first thing I thought of was mysterious and HOT oh so HOT. I honestly didn't think I would fully grow to like him , but I eventually kinda sorta do now after reading the ending.

The emotional twists and turns this book takes you on is like a whiplash you don't know if you can ever recover from. I felt like with this one Abbi Glines found her self and gave it her all with an intensity you feel in her first book. Wonderful too see she has gotten her groove back!

"Everything was different now. I was lost. Alone. I didn't know how to find myself. I needed Crawford. Knox worrying about me liking the wrong guy was ridiculous. I loved Crawford and I had my entire life. A pretty smile and incredible eyes weren't going to change that. I wasn't shallow."...

Vale and Crawford met as children. From friendship to a plan of life long commitment. The whole world was before them. Until the night of graduation, when an accident leaves Crawford comatose.

Vale sits day after day, waiting and hoping for Crawford to wake up. She’s sure when he does they’ll just pick up where they left off, and live happily ever after.

Even though she makes a new friend, Slate, she keeps him at a distance. There is no one but Crawford in her heart. She has the support of her close family, but it’s not enough. College will have to wait. Life will be on hold until Crawford wakes up.

After a little convincing Vale sees she needs to go on with her life. Crawford would want her to wouldn’t he? Her feelings are a mass of confusion as Slate drifts in and out of her life. As she starts her new life away from home, in range of Slate. Will the girl she once was become a different woman? "As She Fades" from a teenager into an adult things change, as they do for all of us.

What happens in the aftermath of that accident? A plot twist I never saw coming. So unexpected, so clever!

This young adult novel was heartbreaking, and at the same time Vale is learning that life isn’t always what you plan it to be. I really liked Vale, and her family and friends. Great characters and a fitting end.

Thank you Abbi Glines, Netgalley, and Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

This book was meh for me. The premise was interesting but the story failed to hook me. It felt like many other books I have read.

On the night of graduation, Vale and her boyfriend are in a car accident. While she is fine, he is in a coma. Vale goes to the hospital everyday and reads to him, when his parents allow her in the room. Everyone is pushing Vale to continue living her life, as opposed to staying only at the hospital. After meeting her brother's playboy frat brother, Slate, she begins to take the steps to go away to college and make new friends. While she will not move on from her boyfriend, Vale finds that she has feelings for Slate.

This is a tradition new adult book. I was not a fan of how Slate's promiscuous ways were addressed. I was vaguely offended by Slate's male chauvinism, but I think it is a trope of the genre. This read more like the YA version of an adult romance novel...one with a muscled man in a ripped shirt on the front. This read alot like Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Disaster

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Vale has always loved Crawford but when he is an accident and falls into a coma her family pushes her to move on. Vale decides she will attend college and she connected with Slate, a boy with a bad reputation that may win over her heart. But can she give her heart to a one boy when it may still belong to another?

I've been a fan of Glines's books since "Breathe" and this one just didn't work for me. I never warmed up to Vale. She never went beyond being a basic main character. Slate never made up for his bad boy-ness. Neither character felt like they had much growth. Plus, the surprise twist felt like it came to late in the story and didn't really add anything. Fans of Glines will want to read this book but they may be disappointed.

I was very pleasantly surprised with this book. I didn't think I would like an Abbi Glines book after the Sea Breeze series, but she blew all of my expectations with this book! I was so impressed and surprised with the twist in the middle. It was absolutely amazing. I felt like I knew how the book would end, and then she threw a wrench in all of my predictions. Truly I was amazed by this book. At first, I thought this would be another romance that was predictable and had a male character that was a pathetic meninist, but no, actually both the characters were endearing in their own ways. I do think it ended a bit too soon. I think there was a lot more development that could have happened at the start of Part 2. The entirety of Part 2 was too short, but I really enjoyed the entire book.

The blurb really caught my eye and I had never read this author before so really wanted to dive in when I was offered the chance to read.
This book was sort of beautiful and tragic at the same time. Young love, being with someine for a long time and then feelig a bit lost and helpless without them. But life carries on. ...and then, BAM.....plot twist! Never saw that coming!
I'm so glad I read this book and now this author. Will be going to look at her back catalogue.

I read this book very quickly over the course of a couple days. It would have been quicker if I wasn't busy during these few days.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Not to say that I didn't have any issues with it or that other people wouldn't. But I can see past the issues because I loved the story and the relationship.

I have a full review going up on Saturday, March 31st, on my blog. I'll go a little more in depth with my thoughts there.

I absolutely loved this book. The first half of this book was really interesting and I felt it was very real. Having your boyfriend in a coma and having to learn to move on would be hard. I felt like the feelings that Abbi Glines portrayed through this part of the book felt very true to a real life situation. Then we reached the second half of the book and there was a plot twist that I absolutely didn't see coming. I had to put my phone down from the shock of it all. From the there the story takes a different turn but I loved it just as much as I had loved the first half. I enjoyed it so much that I have already preordered myself a finished copy.

This novel was not clean in romance or language and For being a YA novel that is disappointing at best. The story line was OK and I liked the alternating chapters of cake and skates persoectives. I also liked the plot twist in the middle. This would have been so much better had the language been cleaned and the sex not to be included.

I just couldn't get into this book and I thought the blurb sounded interesting too.

Rating: 3.5 Stars

I have now read 28 books by Abbi Glines, and I keep coming back to her, time after time, because she fills a certain reading need of mine. Though this book was a lot lower drama than her previous books, it still had many of Glines' signature elements, which never fail to delight me.

•Pro: One of my favorite things in this book was the family focus. Vale was the youngest of five, with four protective older brothers and loving, present parents. I really enjoyed my time with the McKinley family, and was glad Glines shared so many of their family moments with us, The way the Mckinley family welcomed Slate in his time of need tugged on my heartstrings, and I was happy knowing he had a support system.

•Pro: Slate was quite the interesting character. He had a reputation, but there was really so much more going on beneath that. Between his backstory and the lovely relationship he shared with his uncle, I really grew to like him a lot.

•Pro: Underneath it all, this was a story about self growth and the belief that we can grow and change. Vale had to face that she was not the same person she was before the accident, and after dealing with ill uncle, Slate realized that he wanted more from his relationships.

•Pro: After a traumatic event, many people will reevaluate their lives, and Vale recognized that her perfect relationship wasn't so perfect. In fact, she realized that she was lost in the relationship, and this is something that does happen to some. She spent so many years being Crawford's girlfriend, she forgot about her own wants and needs. I thought her struggle was very genuine and I was both happy and sad for her, when she reached her resolution

•Pro: I thought the twist was interesting. I kept thinking back to the "before" part of the book, to look for clues. There are actually a lot of things I would discuss with you right now if this was book club, but since we have not all read the book I will just say, it was a very intriguing approach, which I enjoyed.

•Con: The ending seemed a little rushed. It was sweet, but everyone knows how greedy I am about endings.

•Pro: Glines made me feel a bunch of things, and I even cried a little. That's always something I am looking for when I read a book.

•Pro: I don't know if it was tongue-in-cheek or unintentional, but I think Glines acknowledged her love for odd names via a character in this book.

Overall: A touching journey of growth and change with a sweet romance and a surprising twist.

Ok, let’s start off with remembering what my blog is called. Honest Reviews. Ok here we go…

To say I was excited to read this book was an understatement. I absolutely LOVE Abbi Glines. Some of my favorite books are hers, I still have a Rush Crush. But this book was almost too hard to read. Oh and by the way there are spoilers in the post! This book has two parts to it. The first part starts off with two kids being in love since they were 6 and then getting in a car wreck on graduation night and the boy ends up in a coma. Ok, so there is where the book was halfway interesting. She decides to go on to college and move on from her boyfriend that has been in a coma for a month, and then she falls in love with another boy ladada. Part TWO happens and everything is reversed. She is the one in the coma and the boyfriend is the one who has moved on. This book made absolutely no sense to me at all. It was like two small novellas crammed into one book. It moved to fast and lacked a lot of details. I am kind of disappointed in Abbi Glines.



I received this book as an ARC for a honest review.

Ok so i struggled with this one. I'm not a huge fan of romance and this is why, this story left me confused and the characters were annoying to me.

Such a lovely book written from the view of Vale, who is trying to come to terms with her long time boyfriend, Her boyfriend remains in a coma, as a result of a car collision. This is a well written, quickly read book with good character development, all who show how difficult life can be at 18, when adult decisions need to be made. I won't give the ending away, however, there is bitter with the sweet. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a great feel-good, yet set in sadness, read. Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this as an ARC for an honest opinion.

While this book was well-written and had it's moments, it ultimately wasn't the book for me.

"Life tosses you things you're not expecting. This won't be the first big hurdle in your life. What you have to learn is that you're strong enough to live anyway."

"Life had dealt me some difficult cards, but I was going to find my own path now."

As She Fades is a consuming and completely unexpected love story. Imagine having everything you want at your fingertips. All your hopes and dreams are about to come true, until one fateful moment. One moment that will forever change your life as you know it. What you know and what you think you wanted are suddenly different. How do you accept this new truth? How can you move on???

As She Fades sucked me in from the very first page. I was intrigued by Vale's story and was in awe of her devotion to Crawford. She was selfless and stood by his side waiting for him to wake up despite how dire things were looking. However, this devotion came at a cost. Vale forgot how to live and was stuck. The last thing she ever planned on was meeting Slate. Slate is her total opposite in every way. And as much as she should stay away, she can't help but feel the pull towards him. As their friendship progresses, Vale starts to see the things that she is missing out on and remembers what it's like to live. And just when you have an idea of where things will go for Vale and Slate, the rug will be pulled out from them, giving way to one of the craziest twists I have ever read...

As She Fades is fresh and has a very unique story-line with a Wizard of Oz quality to it. Vale's story is consuming and will pull at your heart. It will have you wondering what is right and what is wrong? What is real? What you would do if you were in her place? Her story is one of moving on and self discovery. It is a story of finding love in a most unexpected place. 

I couldn't get enough of Vale and Slate together. Their friendship was so real and honest. They knew the score from the very beginning and seeing them both change was pretty special. Their pull to each other was undeniable and had me aching for more. 

My only complaint was the ending. I was left wanting more. I was longing for an epilogue or maybe just one more chapter to Slate and Vale's story. I mean, after all the ups and downs, after all they went through...I just feel like there needed to be more.

Overall, I thought As She Fades is a very good story. I fell in love at page one. I loved the characters and the story. I was utterly consumed and could not put this book down. It was a great read to spend the day getting lost in.

I loved this book. Not surprising since I love all of Abbi's books

Abbi Glines has done it again. As She Fades is the perfect YA novel and you'll never guess the ending! 5 stars!