Review: Good character growth and a believable love story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
This book picks up exactly where book one left off and Tommy starts us out in the prologue. Holly is in a coma from the fight that ended book one and Tommy has been sitting with her the entire time.  He is there daily….he wants to be there to watch over her and protect her and make sure she is taken care of. He has this unexplainable pull towards her and he doesn’t really understand why….all he knows is he wants to protect her.Holly has been through hell. She was addicted to drugs, and when she started selling herself and not taking care of business….she got into some bad deals and got drug down really quickly. We start out in Holly’s head while she is in a coma….but she really isn’t. She has woken up in some serious pain and is in and out, but she pretends to be still out while others are there. We see a different side of the headstrong Holly in this book. She is very insecure, very immature and quite fragile, emotionally, after all this happens.  She hears Tommy talking to her, but she has no idea who it is and why he is there.Between the kind words and the way I feel his voice as he speaks, I want to leap into the mystery man’s arms and thank him. ~HollyHolly deals with her demons with her counselor and Tommy by her side. Tasha is still there but has Tommy very leery of Holly right now. Most of the story is spent on Tommy picking Holly up and making her realize she really is a better submissive than a Domme, along with starting her off in school and getting her back on the right track.For someone who swore she wasn’t submissive, she sure as s*** craves my approval. And she gets it. Often. It’s funny how the woman who swore she would never bow to anyone is the best sub I’ve ever shared my life with. ~TommyThis book was very hard for me to read….not because it was a bad book, but because I couldn’t connect with the characters as the main characters. I really wanted to, especially seeing the story carry on with Dylan and Tasha into this book as well. The storyline was a great storyline and Tommy was a very sweet and generous man. He was not a typical Dom in that he was very soft, but I knew going in that this was a series that was exploring the softer, more sensual side to this way of life. Again not a problem, but it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be because I didn’t feel he had control of his own emotions, but he was going to truly be able to help her with hers. I also didn’t truly understand the connection between Tommy and Holly in the very beginning. Tommy was a very in tune boyfriend that knew exactly what Holly needed and what he was going to do to help her overcome some issues. He used scenes for learning trust and I truly enjoyed his ability to read her and calm her down. The scene that stuck out to me the most was when she was blindfolded, by the fire and he applied lotion…it was all a trust issue and it was beautifully written.Holly was a very broken girl that really needed some help and her self-esteem and self-worth were in the toilet. She was truly broken, but also the inner dialogue killed me. Again, nothing wrong with it….she was very insecure and she had the worst self-esteem ever, and I had a very hard time with the connection. By the end of the book she really was a stronger person that really came into her own. She really grew and we ended up seeing her able to really help Tommy in his time of need.Overall, this was a good book. It honestly truly was, but it wasn’t what the first book was for me. Tommy and Holly were an amazing couple that grew together and learned together. They were there for each other through some very hard times and this showed their character growth really well, in that aspect.I rate this 3 stars for growth and a believable love.