Review: My Love for Lo Lives On!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
Five more stars for Lo and Lily's struggle through their addictions, love, friendship and family drama!If you add up the stars for all of novels in this series, we're up to 30!  Why?  Because they have ALL been five star reads for me.  And the funny this is they, along with writing from Krista and Becca, gets better every time.  Thrive follows the timeline of Kiss the Sky and Hothouse Flower but from the POV of Lo and Lily.  It also includes a short time after HF and there is no cliffhanger leading up to the next book, just a nice idea of where the story will go.If you haven't read HF or KTS, STOP NOW as this will contain spoilers.  I recommend reading in the suggested reading order of Addicted to You, Addicted For Now, Ricochet, Kiss the Sky, Hothouse Flower, Thrive...I know what you're saying.. that's a lot of books!  But if you have fallen in love with the characters the way so many others have, you will be craving more!  KTS and HF had a lot of drama for all three couples and Thrive lets us see all that went on through Lily and Lo.  And let me tell you, a lot of it is heartbreaking.  I chuckled a few times, got steamy from the sex (cause Lo is HOT!) teared up a lot from the angst, and by the end was so very proud of our two addicted messes.  From book one, I can hardly recognize our hero and heroine.Lily and Lo's love for each other is truly beautiful.  Lily says it well (this is not verbatim), they love each other more than they love themselves.  So Thrive is really a slow journey for each of them trying to love themselves as well as support the other during their rock bottom moments.  By the end of Thrive, they're not quite there but they're working on it and in a much better place than they have been before.It was nice revisiting Connor and Rose as well as Ryke and Daisy.  I love all three of these couples and though Lo is my favorite, I regularly debate whether I love Connor or Ryke more.  Three awesome male characters, three great females.  Krista and Becca have managed to keep the storyline fresh and give each character/couple a 'life of their own' which keeps things interesting.I cannot recommend this series enough, it holds a very high place in my all time favorite series list!