WTF?!? How can it just end!?!?! Mind is reeling....crap. How long until I get to find out what happens? Review to come...10/20
**FULL REVIEW**
“My heart and soul, they were bruised, broken and shattered, my mind tumbling back to places I wouldn’t even want an enemy to experience.”
It’s been ten years. Ten years since Neva James’ life had changed; turned from bliss to a complete nightmare. Tragedy will do that to a kid…now, she’s twenty and still carrying around a pain only few know about. Doing her best to hide it, Nev leads a typical college lifestyle; lives on campus with her best friend (Low), being close to her brother (Tate) and his best friend, her protector (Logan)—seems life would be pretty good. Except it isn’t. Since that fateful night, Nev has many demons she faces on a day-to-day basis. Plagued by phobias and nightmares, Neva has three people in her life; those three people who make her feel safe. Never did she imagine she would stumble upon a man who looked like his name but hid a secret all his own…
“Angel was just like coffee; strong, bitter and so damn delicious.”
Angel Walker. Dark hair, deep sapphire eyes, and a body made for sin; has set his sights on Neva. After just one meeting, he pulls something from her that only one other person has ever made her feel…desire. The problem is just that; he’s not the only one vying for Nev’s affection. Logan, her brother’s very best friend and long-time protector, also realizes something is different between them. He knows his feelings and wants to share them with Neva, but she cannot grasp onto the connection with either man until she sorts out her heart…one that she knows will be broken no matter whom she chooses.
Logan knows each and every skeleton in Nev’s closet, and his need to protect her is ultimately what she feels will be their undoing. She doesn’t think that having him bear her guilt and pain is fair…with Angel, she can pretend she is just a normal girl. Not one who had her life shattered at ten years old. Angel has captured her passion in something long buried, something that helps her remember when all she wants to do is forget. How can she choose? One knows her past and has loved her forever; the other doesn’t know her at all and says all the right things in order to stay a possible part of her future.
“Baby, you can do this. You were born to sing Neva; your voice can bring life to the lifeless, love to the loveless and maybe even mend a broken heart. If you can’t do this for you, do it for me. Sing life back into me; bring me back from my lifeless existence.” –Angel
“You drive me crazy; you have done since we were kids. With your cute little button nose that scrunched up when you were confused, or the way you used to take fries from my damn plate even though you said you weren’t hungry, or even when you used to cry when you watched Bambi. But no you drive me crazy in other ways, the way your button nose scrunches up when you smile. But it’s no longer cute, it’s sexy. The way you now pick up one of my fries and feed it to me before taking one for yourself, which isn’t freaking annoying anymore. It’s hot. The way you still cry at Bambi but now try to hide your face with your hair when you do it, it makes me want to hold you and brush your hair out of your beautiful face…Do you know what the best part is of it all Nev?...You have no idea that I have been in love with you from the moment I held you for the first time, when you were just ten years old.” –Logan
HOLY MOTHER OF A CLIFFHANGER….as the story unfolded, I learned a few things and it freaked me out. When I got to the end and my suspicions were confirmed, I completely, like utterly FTFO! How long do I have to wait for the next book?!? I had tears in my eyes and goose bumps on my skin. What a way to end a book! Okay, enough about the ending that absolutely gave me a serious book hangover…
Great story. I was a little annoyed with Nev as she became so ambivalent with her ping-pong between Angel and Logan. Make up your mind already was pretty much all that ran through my head as she led each one on in a different way. I understand why and the reasoning behind it but both men kind of wimped out for me. Even being “alpha” in nature, they both so badly want Nev that they pretty much handed in their man-cards from the very beginning. Now, don’t get me wrong. The sediments were very sweet and both serve their purpose in this story…it touched me in a way that maybe most won’t get. I saw the tragedy of the broken girl working to fix herself. I saw her love of music and how she enveloped herself in words spoken through song. I loved that about this story. I loved the heartbreak I felt (even if it annoyed me) from both men; one as he confessed his undying love and the other as he realized his feelings and the consequences they would bring. And that song…if I knew the cords I would sing it all the time. I cried and read it over and over as I felt her pain wash through me…beautiful and so incredibly sad. I cannot wait to read the next book, I am not quite sure if I can make it too long without knowing the way things turn out…just pick it up & read Finding You, I promise it’s worth the WTF!?! at the end.
**4 Staying Safe Stars**