Review: Steamy & Emotional!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
Whisper to Me was a romance of unrequited love, filled with longing and emotion.Rachel is back in her hometown for the summer where the past she tries to forget through mindless hookups and a carefree faade comes slamming back to her. None of her friends from college know that Rachel was in an accident that almost killed her requiring months of rehab or that her boyfriend, Miles, turned his back on her and left when Rachel needed him most. The only people who stuck with her were parents, and her two best friends: Dakota and Kai. Dakota was the unrelenting cheerleader but Kai was the tender soul who brushed away her tears and held her when despair threatened to consume her. Even with her heart in shreds over Miles, Rachel wasn’t oblivious to Kai’s appeal. And now that she’s back, he stirs up a mix of emotions: intense desire, feeling of home, and fear.Kai never had a shortage of girls after him with his looks, and the fact he played in a band. But there’s always only been one girl for Kai: Rachel. When she got hurt he helped nurse her back to health all the while falling a little more in love with her each day, knowing she didn’t feel the same. When Rachel left for college Kai spent his years studying recording and messing around. Now that they’re both back home their relationship has shifted into a powerful, needy attraction.Rachel and Kai have this magnetic attraction for each other made even more intense from their close bond of friendship. Unfortunately, both think their draw is only physical, and they’re insecure about letting on how deeply they really feel.But this was a different kind of weakness that I never would have guessed I would witness. She’d hoped I found her desirable. Me. The boy who she didn’t even f --- ing realize loved her. The one who already worshiped her, body and soul.I really felt for Rachel. The last book she came off as a no-strings-attached kind of girl, just looking for the next random guy to have fun with, but we get the full story behind her behavior here. Returning home brings some clarity and closure to Rachel and she realizes she no longer wants to live a lie or keep others at arm’s length.This romance was filled with so much tortured longing I felt my chest tighten up and ache in places! I just wanted Kai and Rachel to fess up and let each other in all the way. Kai was protective and tender, but he could be a dirty talker, too, and they had some crazy hot encounters! Lusty scenes full of sexual tension.Christina Lee wrote a steamy romance full of emotions that will tug at your heart!I’m not sure who the next book, Promise Me This, will center on, but I’m thinking maybe Dakota and Shane? I guess we’ll see.