Review: Worth Keeping and Re-reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
I am not going to lie...I went into this book afraid to read it.  A book that begins by knowing one of the characters dealt with extreme abuse is a book that generally is not for me.  It becomes too stressful to read, and I cannot finish it.However, I read Susan Mac Nicol's previous book, Stripped Bare, and with several recommendations, I gave it a shot, and read it within a day.  It was really an amazing love story.  How Nick and Owen meet is rather different, but it just spoke so much about how that relationship needed to get started, as if by seeing each other's pain at that moment, they could meet each other on some common ground.Nick was difficult to say the least, and prior to Owen arriving, probably the only thing keeping him safe and sane was Socks (who was ADORABLE and key to the story!!!).  But Nick persevered, and with the connection with Owen, a beautiful love story came through.  Yes, there were parts that were somewhat difficult to read, but the reader was able to step back and see it as the path that got Nick to where he was in life, and how someone has open as Owen was able to bring them both back to the land of the living.There are not a lot of books that I read that I will say for sure I would read again, this is one.  Ms Mac Nicol managed to take a story that was terrifying at the thought of reading it, and making it such a wonderful love story, I really couldn't have appreciated more.Truly beautiful...oh, and bring your tissues, because you WILL laugh, and there may be a point where you laugh until you cry, that cheeky monkey.  :)