Review: Loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.I loved everything about this book! It was the perfect fit for me! don't you just love it when that happens? While I was reading this I experienced all of the feelings that make me love to read. I couldn't wait to get back to it, but I also hated it when I noticed that I was halfway through because that meant that it would be over too soon. I'm so glad that it's a series! I want to have as much time with this story and it's characters as possible.This book may be a romance, but it also managed to have a very interesting Sci-fi/Fantasy storyline too. Most of the time when I read a romance, I find myself getting bored when the hero and heroine aren't either with or thinking about each other. If it's not about their relationship, I tune out. The other storylines just aren't important to me, and I start to get that antsy "just get to the good part" feeling. I never got the chance to get antsy with this story though. Cali's ability to see emotions in the form of colors, coupled with the incredibly creepy scientist and thugs that were trying to track her down the entire book, kept me intrigued and constantly entertained.I would be lying if I said that the romance wasn't what I enjoyed the most about this story though! Cal was such a great hero! He started out as a sort of typical cocky playboy, but that was until he met Cali/Cal (By the way, I love how the hero and heroine have the same nickname in the book!). Now I know that the whole "I didn't know who I was until I met her" thing can be contrived and over done, but it works perfectly in this book. Cal wasn't just a wounded hero; he was more lonely and bored before he met Cali then anything else. Meeting her and falling for her didn't turn him into a different person; it woke him up and helped him find out who he really was for the first time. She didn't change him; he just grew up because he knew she wouldn't have him any other way.Cali has now taken the first place spot on my list of favorite heroines in a romantic novel. She was innocent without being naive, and she wanted to be with Cal, but she didn't make excuses for his bad behavior. I always find myself becoming annoyed with the heroines in romantic books at least once while I'm reading reading, but that never happend with Cali. I was always on her side and even if I didn't agree with her choices I understood why she was doing it. She grew up very sheltered from the world, and when she moved in with her aunt after her parents death, she experiences a lot of things for the first time. Her parents raised her in a cabin in the woods and neer aloud her contact with the outside world, in an attempt to protect her; but because they were both very creative and geniuses, they taught her a ton of things and gave her as full of a childhood as they could. I think it was that combination of being isolated from the world but very well educated, that made it possible for Cali to be both naive and capable at the same time. Just when I thought Cal was going to come to her rescue, she figured out how to save herself! Love that!When they were together, I smiled the whole time, and I dare you not to fall head over heels for these two and their love story! If you're in the mood for an overdose of cute, an interesting adveture, and some fantastic characters then I suggest you...READ! THIS! NOW! :DThis book is very clean, but there is some mention of sex and a few "fade to black" love scenes.