Review: Great
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.Jason is a small town boy who moved to the big apple to peruse his own career and learn more about himself before settling down with his high school sweetheart.Rachel is from the other side of the tracks, brought up in the big city by an alcoholic mother, she moves from bad boy to bad boy to live on the wild side with sex, drugs, and partying.One night on manhattan bridge Jason comes across Rachel on his routine run, just as she is about to end it all in the water below.When fate brings them together, it takes Jason's good guy persona to help bring Rachel back from the edge.With nothing but the clothes on her back, Rachel moves in with her saviour to get back on to her feet, but with a strengthening friendship turning in to something more, it will take both of them to help each other find themselves and face the demons of their past, and together help make a brighter future.This story has one thing that really stands out as different from other books I tend to read; the girls lead character is a strong person before the night in shining armour. Don't get me wrong, Rachel still seems to need a lot of help from Jason, but she doesn't start out as completely fragile, and while her life so far hasn't been ideal, she is still headstrong with her own personality, and I loved that about this book. Overall the book was strong with a good storyline and well written, the only thing that was a bit amiss was the occasional punctuation error, with commas thrown in at odd times, but not often enough to get annoying. I think the author did a great job in portraying her characters in a way that makes you like the right characters and hate the wrong, without making the good guys unrealistically perfect and flawless. With a lot of high and low emotions throughout this book, it was an emotional read that I would definitely recommend.