Review: Some sins are worth it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
5 Stars!I knew this story was going to be an emotional rollercoaster the moment I read the first chapter from Stella Jo’s point of view and then Van’s first chapter. They both have pasts that have hurt them, brought them down, and damaged their souls. But one day, they collide, literally, and the moment their eyes connect Van begins to see how awful he’s treating himself and Stella Jo feels, for the very first time.Van wakes up in a hospital room, waking up for the first time in days. He overdosed. And not for the first time. But this time is different. His band has just recently got out from under the claws of their record label, moving on to a new and better record label, but there’s a catch. Van has to go to rehab (for the hundredth time-not really, but close) and he has to actually complete the 90 days, because he usually gets kicked out before his days in a rehab facility days are up. If he doesn’t go, his band will be dropped and that won’t do, so Van agrees.Stella Jo is just graduating college, with two options. Accept the job at Second Chance Ranch or go home and work on the family farm-which she hasn’t been back to since she left for college. There are many reasons for this. One: she would race horses, but during a race her horse fell on her leg and broke it and her horse was put to sleep, leaving her unable to get back up on a horse, and here’s where number two comes in-this disappointed her parents, she no longer to be the perfect daughter, so she was left with an emptiness, loneliness her parents refused to fill. So she picked Second Chance Ranch.The day of Stella Jo’s walk around of the facility, before she accepted the job, Van collided with Stella, making her drop all her paperwork. Van helps her pick up the mess of paper he caused and when their eyes collided, everything changed.But one thing that halted every single dirty, X-rated fantasy they wanted to have with each other; no client-employee relationships, if there are, the client is kicked out and the employee is fired.So what to do when for the first time you want to be a better man or for the first time you don’t feel that emptiness, that loneliness; you finally feel needed, wanted, cherished.“Some sins are worth it.”I gave this book 5 stars and let me tell you why. This story is about two people who are damaged in the worst ways. They have horrific pasts, hurting each and every second of the day, just trying to survive. And when they find each other, they pull emotions out of each other and make you hurt and want to soothe them, make them feel wanted. Make them understand that they are enough, no matter others have said to them.Van and Stella’s story is a rollercoaster. There are so many emotions messing with their minds, confusing their sexual encounters. Making them feel more than they ever have. Making them decide what they want for the first time in their lives. They risk it all to have love. The true, heart-warming, world tilting, kind of love. The kind of love all humans search for and Van and Stella’s story reinforces that you can find real love, story book love, but you gotta fight, you gotta make decisions that could change your life. You have to risk everything to gain the most precious thing in the world. And believe that some sins are worth it.