Review: Anna "Martini Times Romance"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review**quote from book*-- "I know," he said again, his voice rustic. "I know. When I look at you, I should feel nothing but guilt and remorse. I should close down and burrow into that wretched place inside myself. But I can't. I just...I feel so alive. You've made me smile and laugh and...and want."  - Logan Xander --Wow...let me just start off by saying that this book gave me tingles while reading, and I hadn't felt that since reading Real by Katy Evans or White Trash Beautiful by Teresa Mummert. Fighting Fate just has that unique quality to drag you into its story line unforgivingly  and make you root for such an impossibility.*quote from book*--Forgiving your brother's murderer may be noble, but falling in love with him borders on betrayal.--Paige's brother Trace was murdered by Logan Xander three years ago. Since the moment Trace stopped breathing, her world has been torn apart. Her father became a rip roaring drunk, her mother committed suicide, and Paige has lost all reason to live her own life and instead adopted her the life her brother would have lived.  She picks up his lost dreams and drapes them over her own shoulders, carrying the weight of it all, and attends the college Trace wanted to go to, she takes on the major he would have taken and lives her life how she believes her brother would have had he lived.This is how Paige copes with everything. Though on the first day of her classes, she never imagined that she'd have to face her brother's killer head on. Logan Xander attends Granton University, and all her carefully laid plans gets disrupted quickly.Linda Kage did a phenomenal job of capturing what I believe to be perfect representation of the struggles a heart broken girl endures and the pain and emotions one would experience because of the circumstances. And she makes the falling in love so believable that even though it seems so taboo and impossible, she makes her readers root for Paige and Logan to find common ground and eventual love. My breath was taken away.Ms. Kage's pacing of the story was perfect. She didn't take anything too fast. She didn't fly through emotions to get to the good stuff. There were parts my heart broke for both Logan and Paige, and the story moved along gracefully. I was hooked on page one and didn't want to set the story down. I had not read a story with this kind of unique twist before.I loved that we as readers get to experience Paige and Logan's transformation of becoming their own person. This story truly embodies the lesson of forgiveness and letting go of the past. The events that occur in this story are realistic and true to what one would find on an actual college campus. I very much enjoyed Fighting Fate and look forward to book 2 in the series.