Review: 4.5 STARS for this amazing RUSH!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
It's the honesty and rawness in a book that I look for.  I long for.  I need to see that poignant moment - that moment with so much intensity I might get burnt from reading...I give you - Rush Into You!!!An unbelievable 4.5 ***** from The Sassy Bookista!!♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞Reading this book for me was like a whirlwind.  I never knew where it was going or how the moments would play out.  After the prologue, I was in tears.  Tears I tell you!  I felt as broken as Gabriella Carter was.  I saw the horror of how, in an instant, someone could be changed.  But it's not until later in the book I found out the sequence of events that led to the moments in those beginning pages.  I can honestly say, that this book moved me.  Gabby was an addict and a very much hated person in her community.  Everyone knew her - for the wrong reasons.  The intricacies were stunning!  How the author takes a piece of time and just catapults the reader into the story.  To feel Gabby's pain, to feel her guilt and regret.  Wow!  This was a different read than what I'm used to.  The events in this book are as raw as they come.  There is no sugar coat on them.  It was hard to read those very low moment of a characters life.  Even as I despised Gabby for the things she was doing - I loved her!  I loved her sense of self in ways I really couldn't see yet but knew they were coming.  I loved her tenacity - again, there were no immediate ways to describe this, but I knew her best days were ahead of her.  I feel this much for a character was shocking.  Don't get me wrong folks, I have read many a book that I really felt them.  That palpable tension - good or bad.  But with Rush Into You - there's no way to describe it but to say I felt for her.  Not just the things of Gabby's past, but the things that were to come for her.  She see's herself as the lowest scum and treats herself that way, too.  Gabby has had an emotional life - but she tries to block all the feeling out.  Becoming a numb shell of someone who once was.  So I felt for her - for the light at the end of the tunnel of turbulence that she couldn't yet see."The life I  lived was my purgatory, and I was only alive so that I could suffer for all my sins."Gabby finds Ryker Rosse at a moment when she needs him the most.  Ryker saved her.  In more ways than one.  I saw him as a guardian angel sent from above.  He was tall, tattooed and lean.  The most memorable thing about Ryker - aside from everything! - are his eyes.  They are blue and yellow.  "...like sapphires and gold."  *sigh*  I know, right!  Back to the important stuff...  Ryker works as a bartender.  But he also races bikes.  Illegal, street bike races are his livelihood.  Makes him seem bad boy - but he's really not.  He's also got a painful history.  But he has had to overcome a few things in his life as well.  We get one chapter  in his POV and it's heart-stopping.  What happens in this chapter becomes his secret and it stripped me to my core.  But it was beautiful too.  The urgency, the care, the compassion and utter strength Ryker shows in that chapter are nothing short of amazing!  And he continues with these traits throughout the book.  The intensity between Ryker and Gabby melted me.  He was the only one to speak to her, to treat her as she believed she didn't deserve.  Ryker brought a sparkle to her eyes.  He saw the beauty in her when no one else did.  Saw that there was something more to Gabby.  He knows what she used to be.  He saw first hand, but the actual chain of events that led her to that lifestyle...she's keeping close to her.  Ryker wants to strip the walls bear and break them down.  He wants to help carry the weight of her guilt and regret she constantly feels.  Ryker was pretty amazing all around.  He's one of the most respectful book boyfriends I've ever read."This is a f*@ked up way to tell you, and not how I planned it al all, but I love you.  I f*@king fell in love with you, Gabby."This is yet another book I could chat about for days to come!  The chemistry Ryker and Gabby share is off the charts scorching HOT!!  The passion that burns between them even brighter.  They are two people simply meant to be together, fated to be together.  Two characters that I loved every second of reading.  The issues in the book are real.  More real than many other problems in our world.  Some moments are gritty, dark, frightening, daunting.  I thought - how does one get over such tragedy?  Only to have their world almost taken from them.  How do strangers get through such horrific events in time?  Then we have moments that are touching, raw.  Moments filled with euphoria and hope.  It is those moments that make walking through the dark worth it.  Those moments of being at her lowest of lows... Gabby Carter found herself rushing into the light.  Rushing Into Ryker Rosse.♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞♥∞