Review: Gutted me but I loved EVERY minute of it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
I just finished Used and I am NOT ok. You know those things that carpenters use to clamp down wood when they are sawing it? I feel like there is one of those clamped extra tight on my heart and I feel like I could throw up at any moment. Why, you ask?? Because Lynetta Hulat just ripped my heart out and stomped on it. I’m talking reached in, ripped it out, threw it down in some dirt,fire ants and barbed wire, stomped on it about 1000 times, then picked it up and shoved it back into my chest. It is now just a huge gaping wound :(I cannot remember the last time I was this affected by a book. I have been reeling since the moment I finished it and I just can’t seem to get myself together.  But enough about me and my emotional hell. I am here to give you a review and I hope I can do the story justice.Used is the story of Denver, Greer and Ransom. Yes, it is a love triangle! I think we all know how most of those work out. Somebody gets their heart shredded while the other two ride happily off into the sunset.  Love triangles are a love/hate for me….I love them but I hate when everyone doesn’t get their HEA. I’m a hearts, rainbows, unicorns and flowers kind of girl. Can’t help it. Unfortunately, there is not a unicorn to be found in Used. Many horses but no pretty, happy, purple unicorns.Used starts off telling us the story of Denver and Greer. Two rodeo riders who have been best friends since the womb. They were born 13 hours apart and have been inseparable their entire lives. Around age 16 they discover they have a lot more than friendly feelings for each other and begin to fall in love. Things are looking pretty good for these two until an awful thing happens to Denver at the hands of her disgusting stepfather. Unfortunately, Denver has a mother who makes Mommy Dearest look like June Cleaver.She doesn’t believe Denver or care about what happened and this crushes her. Denver has lived her whole life with a mother who is not only a horrible parent, but who is also the town whore. She is on her 7th husband and uses men for pleasure and money. This is not the first time Denver has had to thwart off one of her mother’s disgusting men and she has reached her breaking point. She gets it in her head that if she just has sex and gets rid of her innocence, they won’t want her anymore. Wanting to be in control and wanting to lose her virginity to someone she loves, she turns to Greer. She loves Greer, he is her best friend, and she wants it to be him. Greer, meanwhile, is HEAD OVER HEELS in love with Denver and doesn’t want to have sex with her just to have sex. He wants it to mean something and to be special…“I’ve always wanted to make you mine, but not until the day you become my wife.”Sa-WOON!! How amazing and perfect is he???? This is probably a good time to tell you that I am 100%, no wavering, die hard committed and fully invested #TeamGreer. I fell for this boy and I fell HARD! I want him and Denver together in the worst way. He adores her.“Because it’s always been you, chicken. I want you beside me in my truck. Beside me at school. Beside me in life. I want you. Every single day.”He is perfect, right?? Too bad Miss Denver is 50 shades of messed up! She is so convinced she is going to turn out like her mother, that it is inbred in her DNA to be a slut that she won’t let herself go and commit to Greer. Poor boy...bless his heart :( She also somehow gets it in her head that having sex with Greer as “friends with benefits” or “booty buddies” makes her a slut.The next thing you know they are off to college and enter one bull riding, John Ransom. Yeah he is hot,yeah he has tattoos and yes he is an amazing bull rider...blah blah blah. All I see is trouble and a broken heart for my poor sweet Greer. Luckily for me, Denver decides to give Greer a chance at a real relationship. They try to start over and are abstaining from sex but we are treated to the most erotic sex but non-sex scene I have EVER encountered in a book. Mark it on your Kindle...50%!!  I was squirming in my chair and looking for fresh batteries….I mean DAYUM! This was HAWT!!I would have been happy for the book to end at 50% and for Denver and Greer to live happily ever after with little rodeo babies but nooooo…..Lynetta had to go THERE. Somewhere so horrible that I am still in shock even hours later. Something I never saw coming and wish I could unread. It is a horrible thing and people are gonna be like "Aww...HELL no!"Of course, Ransom is there to help pick up the pieces and I’ll admit he grew on me a little bit...kind of like a fungus. At this point all I want to do is hold Greer. A lot of people won’t get this and will disagree but I feel there is a lot more to the story that needs to be told and I am standing by my man. Period. I can’t wait to see what people think about what happened. Talk about the perfect book club book. There is gonna be some serious debating over this one. All I know is I need some redeeming to happen in the next book or I might go postal!Ok maybe that is extreme but you get what I am saying. In my mind, Denver and Greer belong together. They are soul mates. Greer lives for her.  He would give her the door in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean after the Titanic sank, he is her Jake Ryan, her Noah Calhoun, the Pacey to her Joey and the Ross to her Rachel…THEY.BELONG.TOGETHER.I give Used 5 giant, emotion evoking stars and it is a must read! Just have wine, tissues,  a support group and a bucket ready...you are gonna need them all!