If
you have
read and enjoyed Forever with You (Fixed, #3) by Laurelin
Paige, Wethering
the Storm (The Storm, #2) by Samantha Towle, and Rare and
Precious Things (The Blackstone Affair, #4) by Raine Miller
Basic
Summary
The Impact: Tristan hit rock bottom, and no one felt the impact harder than
Danika. She was force to see, in the
most brutal of ways, that love does not conquer all. Bruised, bloody, and broken she had to walk
away.
The
Aftermath: Picking up the pieces of
your life after a tragedy is a daunting prospect, and that’s considering you
will own all the pieces. But what if you
don’t? What if someone else owns those
pieces and those pieces are a part of your soul? You dig deep and work with what you’ve got.
That’s what Danika told herself and
believed, every single day, for years.
Tristan and Danika’s love hard failed every test that life had thrown at
them. She couldn’t forget that, not for
one second. And if those tests had been
overly harsh, well, she wasn’t one to wallow in self-pity. The failure was the thing she had to focus
on. The failure was the lesson. She had no intention of working hard to make
out of well without learning that lesson well.
The
Reunion: Over six years after the night changed everything, Danika finds
herself forced to spend the weekend constantly y in Tristan’s company, as they
attend the wedding of two for their dearest friends. It’s been
long enough that she feels they can be friendly again without destroying
her peace of mind, but just a small amount of time in his presence has her
remembering something she had forced herself to forget: There’d been a reason
she’d gone through hell with this man, for this man, some true good to precede
that bad. She shocks herself by quickly
giving in to a hunger that she imagined could still consume her. Even the best intentioned denial has a
breaking point.
The
Harsh Reality: After everything
that’s happened, the rise and the fall, the pain and the aftermath, can these
two navigate the waters of acute regret, survive the trails of coming face to
face with all that they may have lost, and find the strength to try again?
First
Impressions
Well first of all words cannot
describe to finally get my hands on the ending to this trilogy, after Rock Bottom
I needed Danika and Tristan to have a happily ever after. So thank god I can get some closure to this
story because I was just completely shattered after finishing book two.
I was so happy when
R.K. Lilley included the restaurant scene from the last book but this time in
Tristan’s point of view because when Danika points out that he is the one that
gets to laugh and walk out of there and be happy again it just made me so angry
at Tristan. I wanted to know so badly he
was laughing while Danika walked up the restaurant because that scene to me
just accentuated the unfairness of it all and once again broke my heart.
What I
Loved
Well of course I just cannot get
of Tristan and Danika and this book does NOT disappoint in this category. I love seeing the progression of Danika from
the beginning of this book where is she is filled with bitterness and anger to
letting down her defenses one by one and slowly letting Tristan in. When she starts ordering food from places she
used to go to with Tristan or wearing clothes she used to wear when they were
together it so awesome because to me it’s Danika returning back to who she
truly is, not repeating old addictive patterns.
I know she worries that she’s regressing but to me it was just her
finding herself again and breaking out of that shell she has created around
herself.
The sex scenes in this book were freaking awesome I haven’t read
scenes like that in a long time and this book did not disappoint. The raw need between Danika and Tristan was
so palpable it poured out of the pages and I just couldn’t put this book
down.
I loved that we not only got see the
progression of Danika and Tristan’s relationship but Bianca and James, and
Frankie and Estella as well. Lana and
Akira even snuck into this book at a certain point, which was great because
throughout this series and the In Flight series you get emotionally attached to
the supporting characters as well as the main ones. It totally made me miss James and Bianca
though and now I cannot wait for Mr. Beautiful to come out!
Not So Much
I’m so happy to finally have
gotten this book and read this story; the first part of the book was just going
by way too fast, leaving out details I would've liked to have read more of. There were some storylines going on with the supporting characters (Bev especially) and it’s talked about for
maybe 4 paragraphs and then that’s it i would've liked to have seen more details about those plots.
As the story
progresses there are some details as far as Tristan’s house goes and things
like that but I still felt like there could’ve been more. In the other two books in this story the supporting characters were more involved in the plot but in this book it was basically just Tristan and Danika. I get why that is, but I would've liked a little bit more of other people in their lives in this book. Also, I felt like
there were more descriptions of what Danika was wearing then what her house looked like or what the gallery looked like. The same goes for Tristan, the layout of his house is kind of talked about but I would've liked to have seen way more details when it came to where both of them lived.
Overall
I loved this book!!!! It was so great to not only get more Danika and Tristan in my life but to finally have closure as well. Rock Bottom just completely gutted me and I
needed there to be some sort of happy ending with these two so I could move on
and I definitely got that in this book.
I was totally tearing up towards the end of the book and definitely in
the last couple paragraphs.
All I ever wanted was for Danika and
Tristan to find some sort of peace so they could live again, it was so evident
when reading the In Flight series that Danika was really just half a person, so
when I finally got to read her story and what happened to her I just couldn't believe it. Danika’s story was just so
heart wrenching and it just totally blew my mind. Ever since that bathroom scene in Grounded I
needed to know what happened to Tristan and Danika and was so happy to finally
find out. This book definitely gives you closure to
their story and at certain points makes you relive some of the pain you felt
after finishing Rock Bottom, but it was all worth it at the end. This was just such a wonderful series and truly
amazing characters beautifully written.
This book had my entire attention for word one and did not let go until
the very end.
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