Rafe Salvaggio is working to get everything in her life back on track. She hopes by changing her priorities, she can relive some of the pressure she is under from Eden and their friends.
Eden Kingsley is dealing with a lot of new information about Rafe courtesy of Julia. She is also beginning to feel the weight of the promises she made to Rafe about the secrets Rafe shared with her. She hopes focusing on Rafe’s birthday and enjoying family time will help strengthen their relationship.
Julia Hawthorn is biding her time, hoping things will work out for her own agenda.
Omg...I needed a whole box of tissue and a gun for this book. I thought the development of Rafe was well done. My heart ached for her. But also for Eden because she doesn't understand what is happening. Of all their friends Jude seemed like to be the one who truly wanted to help. I pray that book nine comes out fast. I definitely recommend this book.
Oh my, when is Book Nine going to be live? I love Cattano's continued development of her characters, giving more information about Rafe and Eden's troubling history, and insight into Rafe's deepest thoughts and emotions. The dialogue from Eden and Rafe's therapy sessions is intense and keeps you fully invested and engaged. As the book ended, I felt like I had just finished a delicious meal, but found out there was no dessert. It leaves you hanging on the edge. I did find a few editing errors, one where an entire sentence was mangled, that halted the flow of that part of the chapter, but even with that...I love this series and this book in the series will draw you further into the drama between Rafe, Eden, and all their friends. I think I will have to re-read Books 7 and 8 before I start in on 9, when it is released. I think I forgot too much from the last part of Book 7, and should have read that prior to reading Traditore`.
This was the hardest book to read to date. WTF is going on with Rafe? I mean this has drug on for so long that I tired of her and I tired of the same ole lines from Eden. All Eden did was cry and say, “I love you” and “I am not lying.” Being inside Rafe’s head was a shyte show. There was just too much angst. Too much anger all around. Too much yelling and sorrow. Too much hurt and pain.
At the end of this I was like let her go. Eden stop frigging crying all the time. Stop pushing so much into her space and physically. It seemed Letty and Lydia had Brontë more than her parents.
The friends got worse and more intrusive.
Then the childhood friend and donor. I am not sure whether to praise him or be posses for what he did. But at the same time if I saw my childhood friend in that condition and knowing family secrets then I would probably do the same. But then, I also feel that he did not have the right to do so.
Just torn and upset about the turn of this story. It’s just one big sack of gloom and doom since this story started.