Review: A beautiful romance that showcases the power of personal growth
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2013
This story is a truly touching romance about a gentle, deserving young man, and a beautiful young woman who's caught between a rock and a hard place, a kind of prisoner to the emotional, familial and social obligations of the privileged life that's trapped her into a suffocating cage gilded with expectations, disappointments and a taunting happiness dangled cruelly just out of her reach...until she finds the strength within herself to unlock that cage and bravely grab at what she wants and needs from life, entering into a freedom of personal strength and determination of establishing a happier existence. It's a journey SL Scott does so brilliantly, peeling back the layers slowly until the reader is left with a sense of deeper understanding. Without giving too much of this story away, I'm especially touched by William's tender, supportive acceptance of the situations that arise in this novel, and Everleigh's journey to establish her own course towards happiness, despite the daunting obstacles ahead of her and also left in her wake. Evie is dealing with repercussions from all sides, and the fact that she discovers her inner strength to surmount her fears - every woman can relate to her character in particular, because she embodies a phase we've each had to face, in varying degrees. She seizes the strength within to stake a claim on her future, rendering her poisonous, suffocating prior engagement a thing of the past, and I walked away from this story believing in the happiness I felt for these characters in the end.I highly recommend it!