Review: PERFECT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
“Promise to never leave me, Miles.”“Crazy girl, nothing could ever keep me away.”Amazing. Extraordinary. Breathtaking.Oh….my…goodness. I am speechless right now. What a PHENOMENAL book!!! HJ Bellus’ writing gets better and better!! OMG. I am seriously blown away by how truly amazing MILES was. SIX STARS.MILES is the third installment in the My Way Series. Yes, you should read CREE and TRIPP, books 1 and 2, before this one. Technically, they can be read as standalone novels, but there IS a backstory that links all the books and characters. THIS is why I will HIGHLY recommend you read them in order. You will understand the characters on a deeper level and truly get their actions/reactions throughout this book.You must understand something about HJ Bellus’ books. They are not the typical love story we are used to seeing out there. It’s not the “boy meets girl, boy and girl become a couple, boy and girl fight, boy and girl get back together…the end,” type of thing. No. Her characters and their journeys are different. Bellus gives her characters their own kind of happily ever after. It’s different, it’s THEIRS, and I LOVE it.“I cry for the door slammed shut in my heart and cry for all the what ifs. And some nights I even cry for the Willow who actually lived and didn’t simply survive.”This book is Willow’s journey. We saw her in CREE and Tripp, but we didn’t really get to know her. Until now. And what a story she had!!! My heart ached and broke…SO.MANY.TIMES. I cried a lot, but laughed just as much. I swooned, squirmed, and OMG!!! I fell in love with the ‘swipe’ of every single page.Willow was broken. Her heart and soul had been shattered by a man she thought would be her happily ever after. Hell, MY heart was in pieces for her. NO ONE should suffer that kind of pain…no one. It seemed her life was full of ‘downs’ and no ‘ups’. She tried to be happy, but always kept getting knocked down. TRUST ME. She did NOT have it easy……at all.Enter MILES.Oh…Miles. What a delicious man!!!! From the very first moment he got introduced, I fell in love with him. HOT, funny, down to earth, HOT, humble, HOT, sweet, kind, HOT…..PERFECT. He was SO patient. He knew Willow was a shell of a person. He got it and he stood by her. He showed her she could love again….LIVE again. He helped her heal. It wasn’t easy, mind you, but he never gave up.“I love being with you and you’re not broken, Willow. You’re perfect. You never have to be something else with me.”Miles had a horrible, heart-breaking past. Gosh!! I felt SO bad for him!!!! Like seriously….I wanted to CRY for him. Okay, fine, I did cry for him. And the fact that he was SO incredibly wonderful despite his past, blew me away. Made me love him even more. But see, Miles had a secret. A HUGE, life-changing secret. One I did NOT see coming. At all. Nope. Nada. To say I was floored would be putting it mildly.  And the reactions to this secret? Yep. My heart broke….uh-gain. But in many ways, I got WHY certain characters reacted the way they did. It was real, raw, and I understood it.“I now see that I belong with you. I deserve you and I promise to never let you go.”As usual, we got to see all the My Way Crew in this book. I fell even MORE in love with Tripp and Lacey. Gah!! The kitchen scene? The bathroom scene??? BE STILL MY HEART!!!! Sigh. I LOVED seeing the gang together. Their interactions had me laughing out loud and shaking my head. I love these characters SO, SO much. I wish this series could go on forever.Okay…let’s talk about the ending. It was PERFECT!! I absolutely LOVED it and would not have it any other way. It was THEM. Seeing how everything unfolded for Miles and Willow made my heart smile. *Happy Sigh* I can seriously sit here and list a thousand reasons why that ending was perfect, but it would give so much of the storyline away. Trust me, Willow and Miles go through A LOT, so it was wonderful seeing them get their happy ending together the way they wanted it.I promise you, if you’re a fan of the My Way Series, MILES will blow you away. I can’t recommend this book enough. Go buy it. It’s a YOU-HAVE-TO-READ novel. Beautifully done, HJ Bellus, beautifully done.“I uncovered the true treasure of life called love.”