Review: Oh My....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
This is a tale of Paige Zukowski and Logan Xander and how they're brought together.  Their story involves tragic circumstances, anger, isolation, sorrow, remorse, forgiveness and love.Logan was a star high school basketball player, like Paige's older brother, Trace.  They both placed on rival teams.  One night, a fight breaks out resulting in the tragic, but accidental death of Trace.  Paige is put through further heartache when her mother commits suicide a year later.  Her father all but abandoned Paige by drowning his sorrows in alcohol.  Paige is consumed with so much grief and anger towards Logan.  Paige decides the only way she can honor Trace is by going to the same university as Trace planned, but she doesn't know Logan also attends the same school.Logan has spent the time of Trace's death, three years, surviving on his own, trying to redeem himself by doing good deeds and staying out of trouble.  His attorney father manages to keep Logan out of prison, but disowned and kicked Logan out of the family home after high school.  Logan is filled with so much remorse, sorrow and self loathing it's a wonder that he can survive.  He did attempt to take his own life but was saved by a state counselor.After the initial shock of finding out that Logan attends the same school, Paige undergoes a gradual change in how she feels and treats Logan.  She finds out Logan volunteers and attends grief counseling meeting at school, is the campus designated driver and this is after Logan drops out of a class they have together for her and volunteers to stop attending the grief counseling meetings to make it easier for Paige.  However, it isn't until Paige is hired at the same juice bar where Logan works, that Paige realizes while she has her fair share of sorrow and grief, so must Logan after she sees slash marks on his arms.  She comes to realize that he's always in long sleeves.  In the meantime, Logan is so afraid his past will come out now that Paige attends the same school that he doesn't know if he can start all over again.  Paige and Logan begin to take tentative steps in healing themselves and one another.  I love how they've grown during the course of this book.This book is so well written that I can actually visualize both Paige and Logan going through the process of healing separately while becoming friends.  They both have an attraction to each other but try to fight it because of their history.  He comes to her rescue after she's attacked by the star quarterback but is put on notice by campus police when they learn his history.  As the facts of that first tragic night comes out, Paige learns to forgive Logan and Logan learns to forgive himself while doing everything he can to ease Paige's pain.Paige and Logan again encounter a school related tragedy that is all too common nowadays and together deal and cope with the effects and aftereffects of this latest tragedy.This is my second book by Linda Kage - the first was Kiss It Better.  Her stories are filled with so much emotion that once you start her book, you don't want to stop until the end.