Review: Intriguing Love Triangle
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2013
***ARC received for honest review*** - originally posted at [...]Okay, so I'm a big fan of Love Triangles (Kellan Kyle anyone?), and this was kind of a Love Triangle, but for the majority of the book it was just Sahara & Tyree. We got to see their relationship evolve, even though it seemed like it evolved really quickly - Sahara forgave things that I don't know that I would have been able to. She told Tyree all her secrets, and then he left her after she cried herself to sleep. Yes, I found out why towards the end of the book, but that was messed up!After the way the book started, I wasn't really sure what was going on. It starts out at the end of a college semester, with Sahara and Emily going to a Frat house party, getting drunk, and getting Emily's brother Emmanuel - who Sahara's in love with - to come pick them up. On the way home, tragedy strikes, the chapter ends, and we pick up 10 years later - with no indication of what happened after the tragedy. No idea who lived, who died, who was hurt, etc. Throughout the first part of the book, there are things alluded to that happened in the wreck, but we aren't told who was hurt or how until Sahara goes back home to deal with the parole hearing for the person who caused everything.For 10 years, Sahara has been blaming herself for the events of the night since she was the one who wanted to go to the party in the first place. She's cut herself off from everyone in her hometown, and prevents herself from getting too close to anyone as punishment, and because she's convinced that she only destroys those she loves. She meets Ty in the gym located in her building, and feels an instant attraction. When she sees him later at the Open Mic Night she attends, things escalate quickly. Danielle did a great job building up to the sexual scenes in the book - especially Sahara & Ty's first time. There was a bit of insta-love, which I'm not a fan of. It seemed like the characters went from hello to I love you in a handful of pages, and only a couple of days.The book had a really good premise, and I was overall happy with the way the author built up to the scenes in Sahara's hometown - including the courtroom scenes which I never saw coming! The only thing I really didn't like, was the ending. We are left to make our own conclusions as to what happened, and the ending was more a chapter ending than a book ending. I'm left really hoping there is a second book, so that I can find out what really happened, and how Sahara ends up. Will she end up with Emmanuel, or will it end up being Ty?This book gets 4 stars from me - the rating would have been higher if not for the end.