Review: Heartbreaking story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2013
Okay, I'm going to be honest - this was a really hard book for me. I generally read for fun, to escape the day to day life, and this book was about the furthest from an escape that you could possibly get. I liked the first two books in the series - Beautiful Goodbye and Beautiful Chaos, both about Larkin and Jenna, so I was excited to read Gage's story. Especially after the way Jenna did him wrong in Beautiful Goodbye. But, this is not an easy book to read. It's very emotional and will put you through the wringer. When you read this one, you're going to HAVE to have tissues!When the story starts, we see Gage being a complete jerk to women. Personally, I'd have smacked the snot out of him a long time ago with the way he is treating people. And honestly, Cobie isn't a whole lot better. She slept with Bray because she had a thing for him, and then, decided he wasn't great (come on - they were in a truck...what kind of perfection was she going to get?) so she had him take her home and never spoke to him again. Then, not even a month later, has sex with Gage without protection and winds up pregnant. I was honestly surprised Gage didn't demand a paternity test. I know I would have!But, Gage decides to man up and buys a house where Cobie lives so that they can raise the baby together. Good job Gage! They are sweet to each other, and there are some seriously sexy scenes, then after they find out what sex the baby is, everything comes crashing down on them. I've been going back and forth on Cobie's choice, which is probably not very fair, considering I made one that was sort of similar when I was pregnant with my oldest and my kidneys were shutting down due to Toxemia and Preecclampsia, but you never know what decision you would make until put in that very situation. Things moved very fast from there. By the 50% point, the baby had been born, and tragedy struck. I really thought things were going to go differently, so I was unprepared for what actually happened.I would have really liked to see a little more of Gage and Cobie while she was pregnant. While things were good, and they were happy. With the way things went in the book, I would have been much happier if it had ended on that cliffhanger, and then picked up in another installment. The fact that the POV voices changed from Gage & Colbie to Gage & Annie was confusing, and it made the book not flow well for me. In addition, there are many editing errors, words spelled incorrectly, or the wrong word used (eg. pasted instead of passed).