Review: A heart wrenching story about drugs, alcohol, music and love! Rhye is a beautiful tortured soul! Loved him!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
I was given this book as an ARC for an honest review.I gave this book 5 heartbreaking stars.This is the first book that I have read from Nicole. There are two other books in this series, but this book can be read as a stand alone. I loved this book, one of the biggest reasons is that Rhye has a major drug problem and all can't be solved with love, and it's not. So to me that made the book more real and the characters also.Rhye oh my heart. He is such a tortured soul. And he is such a bad ass. But underneath all of that there is a boy just wanting to be loved. With all the crap that has gone on in his past the drugs seem to be his only way of letting go of all the demons that haunt him. Yes he used drugs before his life came crashing down around him, but once it did it was something that he chose to lean on. Something that helped him escape reality for just a little bit. But they didn't they haunted him too.Now out of rehab and starting to spiral out of control once again, and still not playing music. His record label gives him no choice but to chose to go to Nashville, be babysat by someone, record his next album, and stay clean. HE does NOT want to do this, but he thinks about his Mom and all she did for him when he was growing up and how she was a single Mom and worked all the time. And he is her only source of income so Rhye decides this is something he has to do.So he goes to Nashville and they set him up in a studio and an apartment building that is right next to the studio. And Rhye has to learn to once again live without drugs and face his demons. He is not happy about this and he does voice this on several occasions very loudly and uniquely Rhye.Syn is a country beauty and a country singer, she is on top of the world with her music, but at the bottom with her love life. Her record label has decided that they want her to main stream into pop music. She disagrees but is reminded who holds the cards. So she is off to Nashville to work on her new album in a studio next to the apartments the label has provided for her.Syn has been hurt by the only man she has ever loved, she is young and she gave her heart to a country music man that cheated on her and decided that he still was to young to settle down. I tried to hate her ex, but Nicole made him so loveable. I fell in love with him, and although I don't think he belongs with Syn, I would love to see who he ends up with. He has a heart of gold and I think he could be changed to be a one woman man by the right woman.  AND NOW ....This is where life introduces Rhye and Syn. Rhye meet Syn-- who really cares she is a wholesome, too plain, goody too shoes girl, that I really don't care to get to know.  Syn meet Rhye.-- OMG he is beautiful and I can't stop looking at him. Ha I bet all the girls do that. Nothing new to him. But Syn is different she is not like the rest of the girls. She sees Rhye right down into his soul. He does not like that at all.Rhye is mean and raw, and just plain old cranky. But I have seen some people come down off of their drugs and this is exactly how they are. So the Author nailed it. He is looking for things in all the wrong places. Aren't we all? He just needs a little guidance and some people that will NOT give up on him. It is so tough to love an addict.Syn knows there is something special about Rhye and she wants to find out. She sees that he has lost that spark in his soul for his music, and she just can't seem to stop the pull of her soul that says that she belongs with this man. As mean as he is to her she just seems to keep coming back for more.Rhye is not use to someone giving to him unconditionally with no strings attached to have someone do something for him that wants nothing but him in return. Someone that can see deep down into his tortured soul. Rhye is going to learn that when someone loves you they don't always leave you. And that they will do anything possible to stay in your life to show you that love does indeed conquer all.I loved this because we have a heroine, the girl is the Savior in this book.  She is the one that tries everything to bring Rhye back from over his edge that he has fallen off of. But will it be enough? Can her love show him that life is worth living again, and that he is worthy of giving and receiving love?Rhye is a tough one and it won't be easy, and it's not. He falls down, but he does pick himself back up again. And he is realistic he knows drugs are his own worst enemy. But they call to him like a long lost love, can he conquer them? I hope there is going to be another book for Rhye and Syn things did not end perfectly for them. They were good but like I said I think there is so much more to be told for them. I think the journey for Rhye is just beginning and I would love to see where he ends up with Syn. I think their love can conquer all. I think through all of the pain there is a rainbow at the end for them, and I would love to watch them get their with a little bit of happiness.So if this book needed anything more it would be a little bit more happiness, a little bit more it's all going to be ok. But in life we don't always get that. I understand that. But it's good to believe that sometimes we can.Thank you for giving me the chance to read this. I look forward to reading more from you:)