Review: This book is AMAZING, you will fall in love with Riley and Dina!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
This book draws you in and makes you hold your breath.  Neeny Boucher did an amazing job with the creation of these characters and this story.  This is a story of high school sweet hearts that try to make a life with each other and find out that it is pretty hard.  When tragedy strikes Christina brakes down and runs, afraid that she will die if she doesn’t get out of her home town. In the process of trying to outrun their broken hearts and their pasts, Christina and Riley grow up and discover that eventually you have to stop running and face the music.Present day, Christina (Dina) is a very new lawyer building her practice.  When tragedy strikes again in her family, Dina is forced to face a past that she has been trying to out-run.  She was a rebellious teenager that decided to marry her one true love at the age of 18 only to learn that grown up life isn’t all happiness and rainbows.Riley is Dina’s first love and ex-husband.  He has spent a lot of his adult life also trying to out-run his past.  But quickly learns that sometimes the heart has different plans.  Riley has always had close ties with Dina’s family through her brother and his band, even after the divorce he continues to stay close to the family.Throughout the story we get to meet and learn about Mason, past and present.  Mason is a friend and business partner with Riley.  He is another crazy character that we get to know and love to hate.  Dina and Mason do not like each other and have no problems demonstrating that anytime they are near each other.Riley and Christina have an amazing chemistry that makes you want them to get it together.  But in the same instance you want to yell at them for being childish and stupid at times.  The characters in the book are quirky and amazing you can’t help but fall in love with them.  The Martin family is as dysfunctional as they come, but still maintain a close knit connection through music and their love of each other.Throughout this book I experienced every emotion possible, I laughed, cried and got angry at the characters and situations.  This book is for anyone who loves a good love story that has a lot of bumps along the way.  I was very disappointed as I was finishing the book, because I was not ready to leave Riley, Dina, Mason or the Martin family yet.  The great news is that there will be another book to continue this amazing story.