Review: AMAZING
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
In all my life, the hundreds of books I’ve devoured, I’ve never read such amazing, well written stories. There is no doubt in my mind that Madeline Sheehan was born to write, to tell a story and to create such epic characters you carry them with you even after the story is finished. This is her destiny and I’m so happy she decided to publish all those years ago to share this amazing series with us.I first fell in “like” with Madeline Sheehan’s UnDeniable. It was everything a love story should be. Real, honest, ugly, terrifying, gut wrenching and raw.Then, I fell in love with her when I finished UnBeautifully. All that emotion packed into one story astounded me and made me want to become a better writer.I started reaching stalker status with UnAttainable. Tegan is probably my favorite heroine out of any romance novel in the history of ever. She’s just fantastic and everything I would want in a friend.Now, we’re at UnBeloved and I don’t even know what to feel. After finishing this phenomenal book only minutes ago, I’m a little bit of everywhere. There’s not one emotion I didn’t feel during the last few hours. I was happy and sad. I was laughing my butt off one second then crying my eyes out the next. I was falling in love with characters I always had a soft spot for and then falling for the ones that I never saw possible.This is a story about love, forgiveness, moving forward and learning to live with the mistakes of your past. Embracing them and allowing them to guide you, not define you.“Life is made up of moments, big ones and little, the good and bad. We never remember the grey matter, the space in between, only the moments in time that have the ability to transform us in some way, affect us to completely that the memory would be forever etched upon who we were, who we are and who we would become”I don’t know about you, but I was a little sad when the release of UnBeloved needed to be pushed back. I felt like I had been waiting on pins and needles for months, salivating over the announcement of a new release date. To get a story this wonderful …. “I will wait for *effing*ever" … for you all to devour and pray to everything holy you didn’t read it … just so you can read it again for the first time with all the wonder and excitement as you will the first time.Even though this story revolves around Dorothy/Jase/Hawk, you’re going to get characters from novels past, and they don’t disappoint. They give you a greater meaning as to what this series is really about. Family. Love. Loyalty. Honor. Yes, we all love the badboy biker aspect, but if you delve just a little further into the depth of these stories, you’ll see that common thread between them all. You’re getting so much more than “bikers” … you’re getting … everything. Even with that being said, all love triangles must come to an end, and it did end. It hurt, it was painful, but the end result was true beauty.“But there’s only one that can steal your soul, that untouchable, unreachable place inside of you that exists only in your mind, that warms and cools, flutters and shakes without rhyme or reason, and makes it theirs forever.”Deuce is very present in this story and his evolution is astounding. I was shocked, but so pleased as what I read. I can’t tell you, but I can promise you’ll see the leader of our fearless gang in an entirely new light.The other guys … Cox (still the same, but slightly different … hilarious and crude, but with a little maturity behind him), Cage (it’s like watching my own child grow up right in front of me), Tegan (still a smart mouthed spit-fire, but you’ll notice slight changes), Kami (welp … she’s Cami), Eva (who never fails to make me want to be a better woman).I could go on and on about the slight, almost nonexistent changes in these guys, but you’re just going to have to read it.My final note … Madeline Sheehan … I adore you. I adore your stories, your characters, your wit, your grittiness, your raw, unscripted emotion, your way of wording a sentence to make it flow like poetry, your angst and your time. With every new book, I’m a little more in awe of you. I’m more than proud to have received an ARC of this book. Even more than that, I’m honored to call you a friend.I give UnBeloved the most stars possible. If that’s 5, then so be it, but it deserves so much more.