Callie sees a side of Tristan that he doesn’t show anyone else. Seventeen-year-old Tristan is a hurricane of destruction and rebellion, and he quickly blows a hole right into Callie’s sheltered life. After growing up hearing stories about Tristan Trevosier and his famous family, Callie finally meets him when he spends the summer on Martha’s Vineyard. Summer has finally arrived, along with a boy who will forever change the life of fourteen-year-old Callie. The characters were well developed through the two novels, and knowing Callie and Tristan’s back story makes me want to read the sequel all over again. Strassel did a great job of creating the perfect continuity between Because the Night and its prequel. It’s not hard to see why Callie fell in love with him.

He was a pretty big jerk in Because the Night, but in this prequel, you can see that while he’s always been a rule-breaker, he has (or had) a very likable, sensitive side at one time. I didn’t feel like the connection between Tristan and Callie was insta-love, but rather a more realistic view of teenage romance it starts off with an attraction and the feelings developed from there. Being that’d I’d already fallen in love with the characters in Because the Night, I was really looking forward to reading about Tristan in his pre-vampire days.Ĭallie is a much more naive character in Seasons in the Sun, but all of that changes when she meets Tristan, the handsome bad boy that draws her in immediately. Seasons in the Sun (The Night Songs Collection, #.5)

Forever Home by Kristen Strassel