Review: This was goooood....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
***Spoilers***I  loved this story.It was refreshingly honest, brutally tragic, and at times lyrical in it's flow.  Their connection was so intense that as I read it, I was like this absolutely can not survive.  Love this intense and in your face has a slow burn to it, and will torch everything in it's path until it is stamped out.  In the first 20%, you had the reunion and in my opinion everything that needed to be said was said.  While it was happening I thought  what could possibly be in the next 80%, everything is happening NOW.  But Ms. Easton you aren't following the formula of second chances... it takes the ENTIRE book for them to figure it out and this one...you didn't.  Awesome!  But what's next?  They both said everything that you imagine someone would say after miscommunication separated them for 5 years.  Barbs were thrown, sex was had, and reconciliation happened.  There was nothing contrived about it.  I felt like I was literally a fly on the wall and this was happening in reality and not fiction land.  I liked them both, probably one of the best couples I have ever read.It was also good to see that it was her that left, even if she really didn't mean to.  He was pissed, hurt, and wasn't afraid to show it.  She was hurt, unsure, and unafraid to swallow her pride.  All of this, again, in the first 20%-25%.  The one thing that detracted from it was that he was with someone, and I really hate that.  I believe that you need to end a commitment first before starting something else.  But as the story continued on I realized had that happened...there would be no story.  And the story got even better.Simone was evil...and lost.  I am not a fan of making the other woman vindictive and nasty to pave the way to happily ever after, but in the beginning the reader knew that there had been animosity between Jess and Simone.  The wild things that Simone and Jacques did that lead them to the situation that she held over his head, was pretty crazy.  It was crazy.Overall, I liked that this was so different than what you traditionally see in second chance stories.  I was a big fan of the heroine, Jessica.  She went through a lot growing up and it affected her as an adult.  But unlike all the other books out there, it doesn't cripple her to the point that the story is all about that.There was some editing issues that were minor and didn't detract from the story.  Overall a very good read.