Review: New Adult Romance/Emotional Turmoil
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
Two brutally damaged young people, unable to form a true relationship, to feel for and share themselves with another person, one event that brings them together, but can they form an unbreakable bond as one ugly coincidence threatens to shred their tenuous hold on each other? The Destiny of Violet and Luke by Jessica Sorensen, will take you over the edge, mentally and emotionally in this latest addition to Ms. Sorensen’s The Coincidence series.Luke’s childhood was filled with the horrors of being a pawn for a drug addicted mother. No one came to his rescue, no one protected him when he needed it most, no one gave him unconditional love. Today he is an emotional disaster, a barren wasteland of feelings, or is his heart too afraid to reach out? Violet witnessed the unsolved murders of her parents as a child and carries a secret guilt for that night that prevents her from being able to reach out to others. Her nightmares of that time are her punishment, trapped in the mindset of a child, she refuses to confess what she thinks is her crime, feels she deserves to be treated badly. Along comes Luke when they are both at their lowest points. Is there something between them that fills the void they each harbor?Jessica Sorensen is the queen of angst and pain. Her characters are not pretty, they are broken, scarred and scared. She brilliantly starts to heal them, gives them a chance to hang on to what they need. I felt she let them decide what to do with this gift, as they came to life for me. I’m still reeling from the emotional onslaught this book reigned down and must say, this is the darkest of the series, the most emotionally draining and the most difficult to deal with. Brutal, intense, one of those reads that will not leave my head!I received an ARC edition from Forever (Grand Central Publishing)in exchange for my honest review.