Review: Whoa...not where I saw this story going!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
Hmmm....where to begin. This story starts out with elementary aged kids, Jaxon and Sarah, who become best friends after Jaxon wards off a bully that was tormenting Sarah. They remain friends all throughout her tumultuous upbringing with her alcoholic mom and abusive dad. Their friendship turns into a romantic relationship and that is where things got cringe worthy for me; reading the destruction and fall of such a great love between Jaxon and Sarah. Sarah's fears that Jaxon will eventually leave her when all is said and done, she begins to resent him and how well he treats her. She lashes out verbally and physically. After a horrible altercation between the two during a heated argument, Sarah decides Jaxon would have a fuller, happier life if she was no longer a part of it. So she leaves and doesn't try to contact him ever again. Fast forward five years later, and Sarah gets word that her mother has died so she has to return to her hometown. A town that holds only nightmares and horrible memories of how she treated Jaxon. She has since had therapy and has worked on her anger issues and abusive tendencies. She feels she is in a much better place but she still doesn't wish to run into anyone from her past. Of course, things don't turn out that way and she is thrust back into Jaxon's world and the person he has become over the past 5 years. So much angst and then a HUGE curve ball in the story, so to speak. Interesting direction to take the story and I am VERY intrigued with how book 2, Burn, will play out. I am very happy to find that I won't have to wait much longer for the release of book 2. 5+++++ stars!!!!