If you liked Bad Things, Saving Dallas, and Kristen Ashley book
you will love this book!!!!!!
Basic Summary: Izzy has had a lot of
loss in her life since He walked out of it.
Things never seem to go her way, and every time she tries to pick
herself up fate comes along and kicks her down again. A couple years after escaping an abusive
husband and has built a solid group of friends in her life fate shows up and
knocks her down again. Axel spent years
looking Izzy after he got out of boot camp, only to find her four years later
married. Twelve years after he walked out of Izzy's life he finds a fragile shell of woman scared to death of
her own shadow. Through all this he
knows his old Izzy is in there and is determined to find that fire and spark
that used to be in her eyes.
What I love About This Book: I love unique beginnings to books that hook
you into the storyline from the first sentence.
This book does this to the tenth degree!!! The prologue is challenging
to read at best, heart wrenching at worst.
You immediately get hooked into the story and are truly scared for a
character’s life you barely know.
I give props to
authors that know how to suck you in and do it in a different way than
most. Very clearly this book isn’t just
a love story. It’s bitter sweet tragic
story that grips your heart immediately and doesn’t let go till the very last
word.
The scenes in the
book are real, and raw and realistic. I
didn’t feel like the character’s conversations were robotic at all and flowed
from person to person. The details in the
book were perfect; I could picture the look of Izzy perfectly along with Dee,
Greg, and Axel. Nothing was left out
where it should be in and there were scenes I felt were bogged down in too much
detail. Harper Sloan did an amazing job
on not just presenting us these wonderful characters, but really creating the
environments around the characters as well.
When we see Dee and Izzy living in a town I can see the town house perfectly
in my imagination, when Axel drives Izzy up to his house for the first time I
can totally picture his massive house in my head.
Izzy West is a
lovable character that you just want to save and protect forever while reading
this book. Being a victim of domestic
violence myself the depiction of her actions and reactions throughout the book
are dead on that very much grounds this character. She is to imagine and easy to relate to, and
you automatically sympathize with all the loss in her life.
Holt Axel Reid is
the same way too, although he is supposed to be this hot huge hunk of a man,
his bitter sweet story is something for any romantic read to latch on to. He is angry for half the book and all you
want to do is comfort him. Their story
is very bittersweet and I love stories that are all just hearts and roses there
is some sadness that might always be there but it’s what makes the endings of
these kinds of stories all the more sweeter.
Cons: After a while Izzy’s put
your head in the sand attitude became a LITTLE annoying. Not by much, but by the time she was getting
her nipple’s pierced I wanted to throw my iPad mini across the room then walk
into this book and slap her across the face and yell “Snap Out Of It!”. It was just a little bit too much for
me. It’s not that I don’t get it, but
come on if you really want to get over something as horrible as she you face
the music and move on. You can’t move on
until you deal with your issues, trust me I know!!!!
Her constantly
saying I’m fine, I’m happy, I’m moving on over and over was a little too much
as well. Trust me, if you can’t stand
when someone calls you by your full name and you respond by curling up in a
ball and crying then darling you are not happy, you are not moving on, and you
are not fine! I get that was the point
of her constantly telling this to herself over and over again but the like I
said before the denial was just a little too much towards a certain point.
Overall: I love, love, love this book!!! From beginning to end this book
is amazeballs!!! The sex scenes are awesome, the story line is unbelievable, and
it had me on my toes the entire time!!!!! I couldn’t put this book down and
read it in less than 2 days.
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