Review: Can't wait to read book 2!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Succumbing picks up about four years down the road from Secrets of a Broken Girl.Layla Harper is starting an internship at a huge firm in Chicago and is excited to get her career started. She had worked hard to get where she is at this moment in her life. She escaped from an abusive past, one where she was not only abused by others but by herself as well. Unfortunately for her, it seems that jerkwads have a radar for damaged girls like her. Her new boss is a complete douchebag who immediately looks as though he is preying for her weakness. Along the way, she meets a man who can only be described as her soul mate. Not looking for love, but needing it after not allowing herself to have any, Everett shatters the walls she had built around her heart making her believe that there is someone who was meant for her. Thinking nothing could be better than her life is now, Lyla is thrown a curveball when she is faced with a situation straight from her past. She finally opens up to Everett and decides that going home and facing her demons is the best way to overcome it all. She realizes when she gets home that everything she was running from is sitting right there waiting for her. She endures a trauma so horrific while she is there that it shakes everyone to their very core and makes them rethink life as they know it.I really enjoyed this book. I felt like it lacked that certain something that Secrets had. I love the poetic flow of Mary's writing. I don't think Succumbing held nearly as much soul deep writing as Secrets. That is what it was lacking.Lyla is coming into her own by this time and knows what does and doesn't trigger her to revert back to her old ways of dealing. She meets the hawt Everett and immediately sparks are a flying. That whole love at first sight....she knows and it scares the s*** out of her. Everett ever the patient knight in shining armor. He seems so perfect, too perfect. You realize as the story goes on that he is all about her opening up to him. You think he just doesn't have anything to say. That maybe he led a simple, boring life. But good little Everett, you aren't fooling anyone. I think he has a hero complex. Swooping in to save the day, to save Lyla, are you trying to save yourself in the process? What secrets are you keeping from us? Lyla...tisk, tisk. Have you not learned your lesson?! I so badly want to write about a certain scene in the book, but if I do it's a spoiler so I won't! I will say this....HOLY CRAP BALLS MARY! That scene...dear lord. I swear I was there and felt it. It wasn't right on all kinds of levels and you were meant to write stories like this! Amazing what words can form into....Mary knows how to shape them into the most beautiful sentences.I can't wait to read Shadows book 2. I want to knooooooooooooooooooow! I MUST KNOW DANG IT! You have hooked me Mary. Everyone else, pick up these damn books! You will not regret it!