Review: Heartwrenching Novella
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2010
Grant Sullivan knew from the minute he saw Julia in his doctor's office that she was the one and sitting across from her as her lawyer laid out the details of her divorce proposal, he still knew it.  Angry and bewildered by Julia's decision to leave him, all he knows is that he's not about to just let her go.Julia's spent the last year falling apart after their daughter's death in a tragic car accident.  She's spent countless nights wrapped in Grant's arms, sobbing and screaming while he silently held her.  She's begun to question whether he ever grieved for their daughter and whether he's been honest about even loving her, he's so tightly controlled.  Unable to bear his silence anymore, she left him even though she hasn't stopped loving or wanting him.An earthquake ends up stranding them in an elevator alone together, forcing both of them to confront the issues that drove Julia out of their house.I'm a total sucker for a story that makes me cry and this had that written all over it in so many ways.  From the opening line ("God, she's beautiful."), I was drawn into Grant's head, felt how much he loved Julia and how afraid he was of letting her see him being anything less than the perfectly strong husband.  He and Julia had a steamy sex life (hot elevator sex warning), but he often used it to avoid emotional confrontation and a lot of the time, she let him.  Because most of the heavily emotional parts of the story were told from Grant's perspective, it was harder to feel why Julia doubted him; he was intensely passionate about her and it only added to the pile of soggy tissue factor.I loved that this had an epilogue and didn't just cut off when Grant and Julia were rescued from the elevator.  It had the perfect bittersweet touch, leaning more towards the sweet, with just a reminder that some wounds take longer to heal than others.This is a terrific little read if you're in the mood for something romantic, passionate, pretty steamy and will give you a little (or fairly good) cry.