Review: 100% loving Ninety-Eight.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
I received a copy of this book for an honest review. (This is so hard, to not leave a spoiler, but I will try..)Brielle tried to be the good girl, to win her mom's love, her stepdad's approval, even to fulfill her nana's dying wish..Where does that leave her?  With a boring fiance, a ho-hum job, and barely one friend.  She loves her fiance.  She really does..and if she keeps repeating it maybe one day it will be true..? But he meets her criteria for a solid husband and dependable father (or was that her mom's..stepdad's..nana's criteria??  all the above!)  When an accident brought on by a spoilt, needy heiress to a KY horsefarm brings her into contact with a man that shakes up all her beliefs, what happens to her checklists and balance systems for that "safe" life her nana wanted her to have?  And what happens when the one man who may actually be perfect for her, is as unavailable as Brielle should consider herself to be?  If she is given the chance, will she throw away her "perfect" life and in the process betray everyone around them for the pursuit of their own happiness?  Just when she decides she has sacrificed enough, and cannot lose this one thing, this beautiful, best thing to ever happen to her, the choice is taken away.  And heartache of a different kind follows her..all the way to Europe, and on into the future.  When an invitation comes along that she can't pass up, forcing her home again - a little older, a lot wiser, but still broken - she finds there are still a few unclaimed pieces of her heart left behind, that are big enough and strong enough, to either break her one last time..or to build a happy future on after all.  But first she must face a few shocking reveals, before she can decide if she is strong enough this time to stay and fight for what she wants..or if she is even stronger than she realizes, and can walk away from the last pieces of her broken heart if that's the right thing to do.I was rooting for Brielle to fight for love, even if I wasn't sure how she could; and I could understand the dilemma she found herself in..take what she wanted or sacrifice her happiness once again, as she had her whole adult life.  But then I was devastated right along with her, and in total denial, when her heart is shattered before she has barely even reached for her happiness.  How do you go on when you've been given the barest glimpse of paradise, only to have it snatched away?  When she is given a second chance for true love, there are so many red flags that I just knew she was going to get her heart shattered again.  But while it did get bruised up some more, ultimately, it was healed..and that's all I could ask for in such an emotional roller coaster ride; "the ride of my life!"