Review: UnBeloved…coming home and getting it right...absolute perfection =)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
I was gifted a copy of this book...and what a wonderful surprise it was indeed!It’s been 8 months since I read UnAttainable and visited with the whole gang…and yet it feels like I never left them. Madeline Sheehan has a way of bringing to life characters SO real and fully fleshed out, that you never forget who they are…with descriptions so expressive, their faces and even the sound of their voices will forever be inside of you.I have always related to Dorothy as a woman…she is more like me physically and emotionally than any other character in the UnDeniable series…so I was especially thrilled to get her story continued in depth and with some amazing flashbacks to some younger, happier days in her life. She had a hell of a hard time…being unhappily married and then loving a man who would be always just out of her reach, while feeling like she would never attain the status or respect that she so much deserved.Hawk and Jase both were men who wanted someone and something that neither one had a right to have…and yet they both claimed a part of Dorothy and fought in their own way to keep it for themselves, regardless of how selfish it was. Many people fell by the wayside, innocent victims in their tug of war amongst the three of them…and especially all the children who lost their mothers and fathers in the process.I think Sheehan has shown remarkable growth in her writing…this book was so poetic and filled with beautiful and memorable passages, as well as her usual gritty and down to earth humor.  I am not going to narrate the story point by plot point (enough others have done just that so you can get an idea what action unfolds)…but I will say that I was completely in awe at the richness of this book and found myself calmly devouring every word until about the 75% point when I just lost it…absolutely effing lost it and things took a turn into sob land. She hits below the belt and knows exactly how to make a reader become so invested in her characters that when THEY cry…YOU cry too.  Holy hell…family, children, moms and dads who have loved and lost their once innocent babies to real life…lovers who regret and brothers who seek redemption…it’s all in here…and as the entire MC family grows up and changes with the times, so do we.  It was a beautiful ride and I am so honored I was able to go along.Epilogue…yes, there is one and yes, it is definitely an OMG and WTH moment.  A brilliant ending  of another chapter in the Hell’s Horsemen family saga…with more to come.  Bravo on a job well done =)***** 5 ***** “All is well with the world tonight” stars