Review: The Destiny of Violet & Luke
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
The Destiny of Violet & Luke is book three in The Coincidence series by Jessica Sorensen.  No one can write dark and damaged better than Jessica Sorensen and she hasn’t let us down in this book.Violet is Callie’s roommate at college from the first two books.  Violet’s parents were violently murdered the night before her sixth birthday.  The murders were never solved.  Violet was shuffled from one foster family to another and she taught herself to never get attached, to never let anyone in.  And every night for thirteen years, she has the nightmare, she can hear the woman that was in her house singing, can hear the man yelling at her.  She deals with the pain by seeking out an adrenaline rush.  It’s the only way she can make herself stop the pain, if not for just a little while.Luke is Kayden’s roommate.  Luke has had an equally disturbing past.  His Dad left him when he was very young.  And his Mother is very disturbed.  She is a drug addict and forced her son to not only witness her drug use but to help her to shoot up the drugs.  Once he was old enough, Luke deals with his pain with alcohol and sex.  He also never lets himself care.  He uses people to dull his own pain and never lets anyone close.When these two finally meet, there is something there between them, something that although they try to ignore it, they can’t.  As they let each other in, just a tiny bit, they both sense in the other that they are alike.  But can two people with so much pain come together and make it work?  They will both discover, though, that they never can escape their past.  It all comes back to them in a way that they never could have imagined.  We are left with a huge cliff hanger so we’ll have to wait to see if these two can overcome all they have been dealt.This book is classified as New Adult so is for appropriate readers only.  Thank you to NetGalley, Jessica Sorensen, and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for the opportunity to read and review this book.