Review: A perfect balance of beautiful and broken
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
NOTE: Even though this is book 3 of the series, this book can be read as a standalone.I think in another life I would have been Bee. I found a lot of myself in her, from the things she said to the way she thinks. She is strong, independent, and tells you exactly what is on her mind, I love her. I have read a lot of books and a lot of situations but this is the first time I have read one like Bee's. She is confused on what it means to really love someone and she has good reason to feel that way. Not because of a previous relationship, not because some a**hole broke her heart, but because everything that she understood about love turned out to be a lie.Then there is Maddox, a guy who is trapped in his own prison. Punishing himself for a situation that was beyond his control. He goes through life on auto-pilot, not caring for much of anything beyond his sister and tattooing. His art is his escape and the one thing that he has still allowed himself to care about. The one thing he is still willing to work for, but not always fighting hard enough for it. Then his life crosses paths with Bee, the both of them with walls and un-willing to believe in the lies and half truths of the world, they both know better. But somehow, they start to believe in each other, they start to believe in love.Nyrae Dawn writes two characters that are independent and hard but also so vulnerable and kind. It's a balance that she wrote so well. I have added the other two books of this series to my TBR list and hope to get to them soon because Ms. Dawn has a talent for creating a balance between broken and beautiful. That is exactly what Maddox and Bee are, two broken yet beautiful souls who find a way to be more beautiful and less broken together." You can pretend all you want that you've never been hurt before and that you've never lost anything, but I will continue to call bullsh*t, Scratch. Loss is loss. It's not a contest about who's been hurt more. We all have our own battles to fight."