Review: Beautifully Emotional!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2013
*Copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review*Skipping Stones is a beautifully emotional story of love and loss.This book is very well written and draws the reader in immediately. I felt like I was a part of this story, already crying at only 10% of the way through. Very real emotions and very realistic reactions from all characters involved to each of these situations that you forget this is a work of fiction.It follows the story of Alex Hart who loses her parents tragically at age fifteen. Her father's parents become her legal guardians and she moves in with them. Only days after losing both her parents she meets Drew who is seventeen and he helps her through her pain, becomes her first love only to disappear without a word a month later. Alex moves on with her life as best as she can and joins the military to help fund her college tuition to become a doctor. She succeeds and fifteen years later, still serving in the military she is sent to serve in the war taking place in Afghanistan treating wounded soldiers/casualties of the war. She finds herself in a dangerous situation where unexpectedly Drew saves her once again. Drew, has secrets of his own and reasons for his initial departure . When he finds his way back into Alex's life all these years later we get to know him as the man who `keeps his promises'. Together these characters have a beautiful story of young love/first love that has never died over the fifteen years they were apart.This book is one that stays with you well after it is finished and I am so glad that this story has a gorgeous happy ever after for these wonderful characters. There are no steamy love scenes in this book but the emotions are so well expressed and so strong that it doesn't need any.It is a heavy read emotionally and a definite `page turner' because of this. It leaves a wonderful feeling of hope and happiness once it's over. Brilliant read, definitely put this on your to-read list.