VBT# To the Steadfast - Briana Gaitan

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To the Steadfast


Review: To The Steadfast - Briana Gaitan - August 2015

Falling in love with someone can be a difficult thing, especially when the love consumes you and your whole life starts to fall apart. To the Steadfast by Briana Gaitan is not one of those HEA novels where the teen falls in love and changes the guy and they realise that they can't live without one another, nope To the Steadfast is an angst novel which will have you back and fro'ing between the characters thinking why can't they make up their minds. We start off at Age Sixteen and meet Dakota aka Cody Lombardi , she has become best friends with Violet and her older brother Mischa. Violet's family is heavy on the drug scene and one of the first few chapters , the readers witness the police storming into Violet's house and arresting her parents.  During this time , Cody becomes closer to Violet and Mischa and we discover that their lives seem to revolve around partying and getting wasted. About halfway through the novel, we read as Cody loses her V-card to Mischa and from there things start going downhill fast as her grades are dropping and she doesn't seem to care about much. Her parents aren't the greatest either and only has her next-door neighbour Killian to chat too about life. One thing leads to another and her parents get divorced and Cody is shipped off to boarding school. Two years pass and she is now graduating and is 18 years old and she is headed back home for one last summer before Columbia. Being at boarding school changed Cody and set her back on the right path, but being home and back in Mischa and Violet's lives sends her back to her old habits. We see Mischa and Cody getting close again, but lo and behold Mischa has a girlfriend and a secret. To the Steadfast is one of those New Adult Angsty novels, that shows readers how sometimes loving someone who can't give us their all can be destructive to our systems and it is a nasty cycle to fall into.
If you enjoyed "After" by Anna Todd, then you will find yourself at home with "To the Steadfast" by Briana Gaitan.

 

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