Review: Lost & Found Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
This book was just too freakin’ sweet, good and strings tugging at the heart all rolled up into one. The amount of times I said “aww” or “damn that’s sad” was just endless. Sorry, I’m kind of getting ahead of myself here. Let me give you a backdrop and then I’ll gush about how GREAT this book was.“Love Request” by Tara Chevrestt tells the story of Ciara Littleton. You first meet Ciara as a young girl starting her first day at a new school. Like we remember...or not, the first day was hell. Trying to fit in and make new friends. Of course, no matter what you do or how nice you can be, you will always encounter the bullies. In this case, Ciara encounters the mean girls. I’m sorry, but I forgot to mention, Ciara is hearing impaired. The mean girls are Lindsey and Caitlin. Because of Ciara’s difference, decide to bully her all throughout the second grade. The silver lining for Ciara came in the way of Hunter Reaves (Lindsey’s twin brother). He is the cute little blonde boy who saw Ciara as a cool girl that didn’t have cooties (too cute!)Fast forward to present day and Ciara is living in her own world...alone ...now with the passing of her mother. With the help and perseverance of her friend Tammy, she convinces Ciara to join Facebook to look up family and old friends. One day gorgeous Hunter happens to cross her mind so she decides to look him up. Sure enough he’s got a Facebook page (honestly, who doesn’t in this day in age). After connecting they start up their friendship and more from 20+ yrs. prior.The story in itself was simple and to the point: Lost love, overcoming adversity and finding love all over again. I liked how the author alternated between Ciara’s times at school to present day, somewhat of a foreshadowing. Now if you read my last 2 reviews, I’m not the biggest fan of 3rd person narration, because I always feel disconnected from the characters. Well with this story I felt the complete opposite. I felt like I knew them since we were kids and the crap Ciara had to endure. Ciara grew up to be such a strong minded and fearless woman. She saw something (or someone) and went for it. Hunter is just all kinds of sexy, sweet, endearing and just overall great guy.I thought these two together were a strong book couple. There are a few plot twists in the story that try to deter them from being together, but they look at it and just knock it down like it wasn’t even there. You can tell these two had such a fondness for one another that no amount of crap would stop them. There is this one scene with them as kids that stuck out at me. Hunter gives Ciara a gift, what was written had to be the sweetest thing I read in a book. That was one of the parts that made me said “aww”. Sorry, I’m such a sucker for the sweet stuff.We all go through adversity in some form or another, but when you have someone in your life that overlooks the adversity and sees the person for what they are on the inside is always a stand up kind of a person. This book was really good. I enjoyed every part of it. The only thing that I wanted was for the story to be longer, but other than that it’s  just a great story with a great message. 4 out of 5 from me!SMIBookClub received an ARC of Love Request in exchange for an honest review.