Review: I LOVE WHO YOU ARE ROY SYKES!!!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
Who I Am is the third book in the FireNine Series. The book’s focus is the band’s mysterious guitarist Roy Sykes. We don’t hear much from Roy or learn much about him in the first two books of the series (Who He Is and Who We Are) … Roy’s focus is his music – not the partying, not the groupies. There are hints made at a painful past that has made him the way he is. Who I Am is Roy’s story.Who I Am can almost be divided into two different books … the past and the present. Roy is doing an interview, opening up to his fans about his past. The first half of Who I Am is just that …. Roy telling his story. He looks back eight years to when FireNine is a struggling local band, hoping to make it big one day. Roy is living with his mom, who is battling a terminal illness. He loves and adores his mother and he will do just about anything to take care of her and help make ends meet. And by anything I mean working for a local drug dealing thug who does horrible things to Roy throughout the story.And then he meets Rosemarie. Roy has no idea she’s a mob boss’ daughter until he makes a delivery to her house. Even though it should, it doesn’t stop him from falling for her. She’s sweet and beautiful and seems to be crazy about Roy."I was getting myself into something new.Something different.Something dangerous.But at this moment, as I held her in my embrace and she held me back, I knew what I’d gotten myself into would be worth it… "Oh Roy …. If only you knew just how wrong you are! Their relationship seems too good to be true and, well, it is. Rosemarie is just a major witch and breaks Roy’s heart … just when he needs her the most."I just… sat there and blended in with the darkness, wondering how the hell I was going to get myself out of this one. This was my heart. This was me. And she (insert the F word) it all up. She… destroyed me."After reading the first half of Who I Am, I felt such a connection to Roy. My heart broke for him, all that he endured and went through, especially with his mom.Roy meets Kelsey in Who We Are and something comes alive in him that had been dead for a long, long time."I never thought I’d see that part of me again – the part where I was alive, energetic… happy …. But I was wrong. Kelsey Prior showed up, and she took over every single part of me."Kelsey is sweet and beautiful and she genuinely loves Roy …. not the musician or the fame but him. She gets him, she sees into his soul. And as much as I adore Roy, I was so mad at him when he screwed it all up. After his interview aired, someone decided to crawl out from under the rock she’d been hiding under for eight years. Yes, Rosemarie returns and Roy, despite his best intentions, makes a series of bad choices and leaves Kelsey with no choice but to kick him to the curb.Where is Roy’s heart though? Is it in the past with Rosemarie or with Kelsey?"I know I lied to you and I promised you I never would, but if you think for a second that I won’t fight my hardest to win you back and make you mine all over again, you’re wrong."Who’s Roy trying to win who back? Has Rosemarie really changed? Can Roy leave his past where it belongs or does first love run too deep to walk away from it when it returns?In the end, Roy gets the girl but I'm not saying which one!"I can’t get enough. I love her. I’m in complete love with her. I’ll never let something this good to me go. Not again. Not ever.She is the love of my life.She is my hope and faith.She is my motivation.She is my diary.She is my world.She is the joy I never thought I could have again.She is my restoration.She is who I am."