Name: Find You in the Dark
ISBN: 9781476782317

A. Meredith Walters

Find You in the Dark

Jette Amann

Experience New York Times bestselling author A. Meredith Walters’s heart-wrenching story about the all-consuming power of first love. Maggie Young had the market on normal. Normal friends, normal parents, normal grades…normal life. Until him. Clayton Reed was running from his past and an army of personal demons that threatened to take him down. He never thought he had a chance at happiness. Until her. Maggie thought their love could overcome anything. Clay thought she was all he needed to fix his messy life. That together, they could face the world. But the darkness is always waiting. Sometimes the greatest obstacle to true love is within yourself.

Chelsea Bates

"How did I get here? When was it that my life took this insane detour into the gigantic mess that I now saw when I looked in the mirror? Sure, everything had started so simply. A look, a touch, a kiss.
 

The love between Maggie and Clay is all consuming. They both have trouble in their pasts, but come from very different backgrounds. Maggie has a normal life. Normal family, normal friends, normal school, normal life. She feels as though is going through the motions. Then she literally runs into him on his first day. 

Clay is a far cry from normal. He has major issues that he needs to work through. All Maggie wants to do is help, save and mostly love Clay for who he is. 


  "Goodness is your virtue. Quiet is your weapon."


The passion between the two of them is breath taking! It jumps right off the page and into my heart. 

I can't believe the book ended like it did, I can't wait to start the next one! 


  "How do you try and forget about someone you had loved like the other part of you?"

Julie D.

Honestly, the entire time I was reading this I kind of just kept thinking that Maggie was being really irrational and not opening her eyes. Like, it just screamed "unhealthy" to me (view spoiler)[ and I'm only going to read the sequel because I want to know what happens to Clay.  (hide spoiler)]

Samantha 

3.5



First I have to say it was really hard to rate this book. I liked it but at the same time I hated it. Or maybe I was just very annoyed by the main characters. Well not so much Clay because I understand his issues and why he acts the way he does. Now Maggie was quite annoying. The way she thinks is clearly a naive teenager that is " madly in love" with Clay. But I think that was the authors intent. 

I'm happy with the ending and I just hope that Clay gets the help he needs and that Maggie grows up. I really do not want to read another whole book with her attitude from the first book.

Kinsey

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 5 Ripping My Heart Out Of My Chest Stars! Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

  
    "Maybe I was an idiot, or a glutton for punishment. Or maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy."
  



  
    "Because he had, for a moment in time, been my world. My focus, my entire being. And maybe what we had, for those few blissful months, had truly been beautiful. Crazy beautiful. Or maybe just crazy."
  


I CAN'T. I JUST CAN'T. I've just finished this story, and I don't know what to do with myself. My emotions are all over the place. I feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff and any minute the slightest breeze will push me over the edge. That's pretty much how I felt the entire time I was reading Find You In The Dark. I feel broken... and I've loved every single second of it!


  Find You In The Dark,
is a beautiful love story abut two 17 year old kids who fall madly and passionately in love. They are each-others worlds. Their love is beautiful, and sometimes downright unhealthy but it made me fall in love with these characters all the more. I felt their love, and I so badly wanted them to get their HEA. Sometimes however, love just isn't enough, no matter much we try to make it be. 

Maggie May Young--


  
    "Goodness is your virtue. Quiet beauty is your weapon."
  

Maggie May Young is a 17 year old girl living the most normal life you could imagine. She's got good grades, loving parents who still adore each other, and two best friends that she's known since birth. Her life is stable. Boring. That all changes however when she meets, or rather runs into, Clayton Reeds. He's shockingly rude, standoffish, and wants nothing to do with her. Not because of anything she's done, but for his own reasons. He doesn't want to let anyone get close to him. Maggie is very determined to change that. She feels for him. She can sense his loneliness and she wants to be his friend. 

  
    “The struggle is really hard sometimes. And then I meet you. And I feel stuff that I’ve never felt before. Things that I never thought I would be lucky enough to experience. And I feel so out of control in the way I am with you. Like I’m stripped bare and for once someone sees everything inside of me… the good and the really really ugly.”-Clay
  


Clayton Reed--

  
    “This is forever, Maggie. I would follow you into hell if I had to … You are all I want for the rest of my life.”
  



Clayton Reed is, in simple terms, broken. He suffers from mental health issues which causes him to lash out at the ones he loves. He suffers from episodes and suicidal thoughts. He can be downright cold one minute and the next take your breath away with the love you feel for this fictional character. I so wanted to fix Clayton Reed. I ached for him entirely. Clayton Reed and Maggie May Young together was a beautiful thing to read. Though they had many ups and downs, when they were happy it was perfection. 


  
    “I needed Clay as much as he needed me. We existed in this symbiotic relationship where our hearts beat and our lungs breathed only for each other.”
  





  
    "And if he went into the dark again, this time I would be there to find him - to follow him." ~ Maggie
  


The entire time I was reading I just knew that something bad was going to happen. I could feel the darkness that would eventually swallow their fragile love. The darkness just waiting for one slip-up, one opening of light to sneak in on...I was right, and I so desperately didn't want to be..


  
    "I knew his love was an intense, hungry thing. I worried for a moment, as I fell asleep, that his love would eat me alive." ~ Maggie
  


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    “When I asked him as to why he only drew the butterflies he had kissed me softly on the mouth. “Because you make me feel free.”
  





The last few chapters of this book were some of the most heartbreaking that I have EVER read! I knew. In my heart I knew. Things just kept getting worse and worse and I was in denial just like Maggie was. I didn't want to admit that I knew what was going to happen, and even though I knew, I still wasn't prepared for how sad it made me. So incredibly sad. I am so happy that I waited until the sequel was out because I don't know what I would have done without it.

Find You In The Dark was an unforgettable read. It you haven't read it, read it right now! It doesn't matter if this doesn't seem like the type of book for you, you have to give it a shot. It is now earning a spot on my ALL TIME FAVORITES list. 




  “What I can see so far is that life consists of good and evil, black and white. And everything in between is a struggle for dominating the other. Life is a struggle. And I hate that it all ends with nothingness. That one day, you simply aren't here anymore. No more smiles, no more tears, no more anything.”


*****I would recommend this novel to others*****