Review: An amazing story of forgiveness and healing and creating your own life's story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
This is a beautifully written story of forgiveness, healing and creating your own life’s story.Paige and Logan go to the same school. Both for reasons that neither really wanted of their own. But fate seems to take control with them. Paige starts school and while in class she hears the professor call Logan’s name. She freezes. She feels hatred and anger and everything that boils under her skin with that name. He killed her brother. She came to this school to live his life for him. Then the professor calls her name. Logan locks eyes with her. Paige runs out. But fate keeps putting them together.Paige hates him but can’t stop thinking about him. She runs into him again and he tells her he dropped out of the class. Hmm.Then her suite mates at school tell her about a grief group and she decides to give it a try. Guess who goes there too? Yep, Logan! But she sees he helps out and he is quiet. He freezes this time in the group when the leader asks why she is at the grief group and she tells them about her brother and that he was murdered. The leader asks what she would say to the person who killed her brother if he were here. She looks at him and she can’t be as mean as she would like to be but says some things. Logan gets up and leaves. At the end, the leader says she is going to look for him but Paige sees she went the wrong way and she goes to check on him. Hmm... She finds him on the floor, broken and sad. She talks to him for a moment. He has been with this group for 2 years but she gets him to stop coming. Paige never told anyone in the group that Logan was the one who killed him.Then fate takes another turn when they end up working in the same place. His boss asks Logan to train her. She doesn’t have it so she asks the other guy to train her. The other guy has no work ethics. She notices that Logan does and is a hard worker not some arrogant killer she thought he would be since he is the son of a rich lawyer. The other guy leaves Logan to clean up and she can’t just leave him to clean up on his own, so she stays. Because the other guy didn’t teach her some safety protocols, Paige cuts her finger and Logan fixes it. He is tender and kind. Hmm. He isn’t quitting this time but he finally comes clean to his boss and asks him to schedule them on opposite shifts.She also sees that he is the DD around the school. He is always somewhere and she realizes he has suffered too.Then they both are constantly thinking about the other; really needing the other to help with their own healing but thinking that they can’t like each other that wouldn’t be right; would it?Things have a way of revealing themselves and when they both realize that the other likes them too, they don’t know what to do.Then when someone attempts to rape her, Logan is the one to rescue her.Paige has a forgiving heart and Logan needed it to move on himself and Paige needed it too.Side note, --My 14 year old nephew was killed with one punch to the neck. It ruptured the vertebral artery and he got 20 feet before collapsing dead in the street. The kid who hit him was not humble or cared. He served 2 years. But at the trial of one of the 6 kids who was there one of the kid’s mothers got up and spoke and apologized for her son’s involvement. My nephew’s mom then had her turn and said that she couldn’t live with hate in her heart and she forgave him. Wow. My brother was still angry at the time and let the kid know that my nephew’s mother may forgive but he wasn’t as forgiving. There is a difference when you let it go. That is part of why I loved this story so much. There is a huge difference when you let go and you become free from the burden and can become whole again.This was an amazing story I am so glad I got to read it. You will like this book if you like geniuses without social skills, forgiveness, family healing, overcoming grief and anger and loss and near rape, kindness and most of all - hope