ALA Booklist (Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)

Kinsey's postgraduation plans are derailed when her best friend, Camille, dies in a car accident while Kinsey was behind the wheel. Now she thinks she is slowly going mad, seeing Camille's vengeful ghost in mirrors and dreams. When Camille's boyfriend, Hunter, proposes a cross-country road trip, Kinsey jumps at the chance to leave her small town and terrible family life. But as Hunter's drinking and Kinsey's hallucinations both get worse, the two begin to realize that they will have to work together to overcome their shared pain, even as they fear the attraction they feel for each other. Kinsey's and Hunter's grieving is dramatic but not overblown, and readers will root for their healing, even when they take a metaphorical wrong turn along the way. Though Reed's story may be less of a romance than some readers may want happily ever after is promised e emotional and physical connection between these believably broken characters is tangible and will leave an impression long after the story is finished. A solid, emotional choice for older teens and new adults.

Horn Book (Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2015)

Kinsey's best friend, Camille, died in a car crash in which Kinsey was the driver. Numb and traumatized, Kinsey accompanies Hunter, Camille's boyfriend, on a cross-country road trip--a journey fraught with intense emotional pain. The use of Camille's "ghost" to torture Kinsey isn't especially effective; otherwise, this is a well-written examination of how devastating grief and guilt can be.

School Library Journal (Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)

Gr 9 Up-Eighteen-year-old Kinsey Cole knows people can only bear so much bad fortune. That's why everyone knows Kinsey's best friend Camille died in a car accident when Kinsey was driving. It's also why Kinsey hasn't cried since the accident and is trying to avoid Camille's boyfriend, Hunter. Even without her friend, the protagonist is still struggling to stick to her plan to go to college and get away from the small town of Wellspring, Michigan, and her mentally unstable mother once and for all. The only problem is that Kinsey is quietly falling apart. When Hunter invites her on a road trip to San Francisco, she jumps at the chance to get away from all the memories and start her real life. But with Hunter's heavy drinking and Kinsey's own demons, it will take more than a fresh start for either of them to accept everything that has been lost. Nightmares that may or may not be Camille haunting the heroine add a surreal element to this contemporary story as Kinsey and Hunter travel across a largely barren landscape on their way to California. An unflinching focus on the duo makes the story even stronger. Reed offers a well-plotted and excellently written meditation on grief, loss, and the power of new beginnings in this striking novel about two wretched characters trying to make themselves whole. Emma Carbone, Brooklyn Public Library