Review: Over the Ledge(r) and Falling Gracefully
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
Borrowed on my prime account and then purchased because I  realized that I would want to read it again and then probably again.  This was my first Kemmie Michaels book...I don't even know how I found it but decided to borrow this book and with 1,900 books on my kindle I sat down to read this.  This book had so much of everything.  It's unusual in this game of trilogies to find a stand alone that you wish would continue into two more books but since there is a related sequel Mason on its way I guess I will have to be happy with that.  Somehow this book, in my mind, needed to be read as if Ledger and Cam were speaking in whispers.  There was more than just physical intimacy in this story, there was a peacefulness to Ledger, a very zen type manner that I found a refreshing change from the overly large, darkness of some Alpha men I'm used to reading about.  This quality also followed through to secondary character Mason.  Ms. Michael's pacing was brilliant.  This story never lagged, there was love and danger, there was friendship and humor and there was a humanness of these characters that grabbed you by your shirt and said "read me, you will be missing something if you don't read me."  While I am not comparing this book to The Thornbirds or Bridges of Madison County, both of which have left me exhausted and changed after reading them, I will say with both of the aforementioned books when I realized there were only a few pages left, I walked away from both of those books not quite ready to end the stories I became so engaged in, I actually got to 95% of Ledger, and turned off my ereader because I wasn't ready to end my time with these people.  I finished the story this morning and immediately returned the loaned book and then purchased it.  I read Ms. Michael's explanation of how this story came to be and for me, based on how the characters were written, I do believe this story wrote itself and the author just let her fingers put these people down on paper as THEY told her their story.  There are many reviewers who will outline the story for you in their reviews, I usually review on how a story impacted me...this is a sit down when you have the time to actually read a book story, not a chapter here, chapter there story although I do believe once you begin this book you will engage immediately.  Perusing this author's page and reading excerpts of her other books strangely enough doesn't interest me at all.  I will make a reminder note to check back every so often to see when Mason's book comes out...this is the series M s Michael's should focus on, this is her job to keep these people alive on pages, whether she realizes this or not, these are the characters that are written from her heart.