Review: "Believe" in Erin McCarthy's True Believer's Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
True (True Believers Book #1) was my first Erin McCarthy book.  Can I tell you it has not been my last.  I really like this series.  I have to confess that True set the bar pretty high for what has come after it. Of the three - Believe - as a story was not as compelling as True and Sweet.  However, the characters totally were if that makes sense.  Let me elaborate.Phoenix to Robin: "You doing anything?  Want go hang out?  They don't need me to work today."  I nodded.  "Yes." I did.  I wanted to spend every minute with him. Every single second. Every nanosecond. Without thinking about it, I put down my coffee, snaked my arms around his neck and kissed the s*** out of him.  "I want to kidnap you," he murmured in my ear.  "So that I never have to let you go."Phoenix's thoughts: I kissed the top of her head. And long after she fell asleep, I lay there wide awade, naked. Wondering if I had finally experienced the one high I couldn't resist. Falling in love.I think those two passages give you a good idea of what goes on here.  These two are in deep and fast.  Both are feeling, hoping but afraid to trust if this thing going on between them is the real thing.Phoenix has just gotten out of jail.  He is the Tyler and Riley's cousin (both characters from True & Sweet) so he's crashing at their place.  Where he meets Robin. He doesn't have a pot to you know what in, but he's likeable because he is so open and honest.  He's not the type to sugar coating anything.  Robin screwed up BIG TIME!  At first you want to believe that it's some mistake. Then you realize that this girl is flawed, as nice as she is, which makes her human - doesn't it?Despite everything that is going against them - these two seem to click on all cylinders.  Phoenix is tatted up bad boy with a bad temper and not exactly what Robin can bring home to her parents.  Robin partied the days away, not really feeling anything until the night she drinks too much and blacks out.  She is hiding a secret from her friends.  She stopped drinking, she stopped partying, she stopped wearing makeup.  It's like she wants to make herself invisible.  If the events of that night got out, the chain reaction would hurt one of her best friends terribly. It could possibly fracture the chain of all their friendships.How this couple comes to an understanding about their past, themselves, their future and how they deal with those events is what makes up Believe.  A solid, engaging read, with likeable characters that is certainly worth your time and money.