Review: What a FANTASTIC Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
Do you believe in Fate or Divine Intervention, from the very beginning of this book you really want to believe in it for the sake of Nick and Owen.  So what brings the fate of these two men together whom are both on the verge of death, one on the precipice of a cliff with arms outstretched and ready to fly the other washed up on the beach after jumping ship, both men wanting to end their personal despair.  Nick spots Owen from his perch on the cliff and hurries to the shore, what he finds is a man still alive, he takes him back to his cottage.  This sounds pretty dismal but what actually transpires is a beautifully written love story riddled with humor.Nick had a childhood from Hell, prostituted out by his own Mother he never learned of love or trust.  Rescued on his deathbed after being beaten and raped by his Mothers pimp he was dumped in a dark alley, his rescuer becomes his Adoptive Father.  Owen had held his Love in his arms as he bled to death after being shot.  Owen’s despair at losing his love and Nick’s compilation of being a sexual slave, raped and prostituted  followed by an abusive relationship as an adult led them to the cliff and shore of Pebble Cove.Enough of the dark, this isn’t what I found reading this book, like I said earlier this is about Love.  This is about the compassion that Owen’s character gives Nick, sometimes with tough love and stubbornness.  You will enjoy the humor given to us by Socks a monkey that is Nick’s pet, imagine what you can do with a monkey in your story line.  The secondary characters and even the village all work so well.  The Author does a brilliant job of transporting the reader to Pebble Cove, as we live the lives of Nick and Owen.  You will also find some drama in the form of an obsession by a character from the past.  As the story deals with the trauma that I explained earlier, remember this happened in the past and that is not what this story is about.  It is used for the basis of how each character overcomes their despair and how it is used in building the relationship.  Susan can take troubled characters and wind a story around them like no one else.  I like that she gives us characters that have gone through something horrific and come out the other end better.  You truly believe what the characters are going through, even the idiosyncrasies of sex are real for the situation.What I took away from this story is a story of Love, it made me feel so warm inside.  Read it as the Love Story that it was written as.  If you are like me you will just have to shut the cover at the end of the read and take a deep breath.  For Nick and Owen they are Worth Keeping.