Review: The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle

Edition: Paperback
Pages: 448
Publish Date: September 6, 2011
Publisher: Harper Teen
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Series: No
Goodreads Rating: 3.78 (5,851 ratings)

Overall it was a moving and very true to life story. The dynamic between Laurel and David both in their relationship and how they both deal individually with the tragedy that tears apart both of their lives. 
For a book with so much filler throughout the 448 pages I thought it could have had a more detailed ending. Though I was overall very happy with the story and moved by the general idea, I found a lot of the characters were rather uninteresting and frankly kind of pointless, and the story dragged on to the point where I was just skimming through half the time. 
This book has many good ideas and an emotional story with a rather happy ending, as well as a cute love story between David and Laurel, but I wasn't all that in love with it.