Review: 5 stars are not enough, Bijou Hunter is brilliant!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
What can I say I think Bijou Hunter is a genius, I love this series I faithfully stalk her till another book is out so that I can buy and devour it right away. And people say stalking is bad(psh) I say it comes with benefits, I was one of the lucky few who got to beta read this book and I LOVED EVERY MINUTE of it so much so that though I was given a copy of this book I just bought my own because 1) I love this author, and 2) I love this book and series. I already am needing book 3 yesterday. Bijou writes effortlessly it's so easy reading her books they flow like butter. She writes her men amazingly and I always(which doesn't always happen) love her heroines.Lark has known pain her brother who she loved dearly died, her sister left her and her mother chooses her husband every day over Lark. Even though Lark is an adult she is treated like a child with the threat of being kicked out of her house, and with not enough money to go to college and have her own home she picks college. While at her friend Farah's wedding rehearsal she see's Aaron, Coopers friend and she wants nothing more than to talk to him but never finds the chance then the next day at the wedding Aaron comes with a date. Now months later a unfinished tattoo may be the perfect reason to go see Aaron.Aaron has been friends with Cooper since they were kids, when he see's Lark at Coopers wedding rehearsal and wedding he knows right away that she is it for him but never gets the chance to talk to her. So when Cooper tells him about Lark's tattoo he knows this is it, When he finally see's her again he agree's to meet her at a restaurant to talk about the tattoo. When Lark doesn't show up Aaron is devastated and leaves but on his way out he see's Lark walking to meet him.Lark and Aaron instantly connect and want to spend more time together, and quickly find themselves falling in love, but Lark's over protective family stop her at every turn and makes it known that she will have no home if she continues with her relationship with Aaron. Now Aaron and Lark are forced to decide what they want most but when Lark finally stand up to her family she finds that it isn't as easy to walk away as she thought it would be.I so loved this book I hated finishing it because I didn't want to say goodbye to everyone I have grown to care about so much. Though this book is lighter than the first two it didn't detract from it's awesomeness one bit, and I think that was a brilliant idea with the length of this book. I think that had she tried to make this book as heavy we would have missed to much and it's obvious that Bijou didn't want to skimp or do her characters injustice and she didn't at all. I wouldn't change this book one bit.  She had me in tears reading the epilogue  and that's the sign of a great author.Bijou does a great job at showing enough of the characters yet to come to make me salivate for their stories. She can make you hate a character( and want them to suffer painful deaths) then fall in love with them and want nothing more than for them to be happy. The gang is all together again and it was great seeing where they were, and seeing who is to come I loved Aaron he knew Lark was it for him and he was willing to wait for her, she was it for him and no other girl would do. Lark was strong though all she had been dealt in life and I completely believed that she was head over heals in love with Aaron.Not only did I love Aaron and Lark but Bailey and Nick also shined in this book, I laughed throughout this book with the things Bailey said. Nick intrigued me like not many have in a long time the few times he is in this book brought new insight and question about Nick so much so that I want to fast forward the months so that I can read his book, or better yet lock Bijou away till she finishes more books, unfortunately the law looks down on those kinds of things (*double sigh*). Bijou is everything right with the self published world. She is an auto buy author for me that I always anticipate new release from."Sounds about right," he muttered, rolling another strike. "Girls get PMS. Guys get ball toxins."Why are they walking around like that?" Bailey cried. "The babies will fall out and I'm not cleaning anything."