Review: LOVED IT
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
SUMMER'S BOOK BLOGMike Jameson did not know how to get over losing the most important person in his life so he shut down and moved away. He promised himself he would do everything he could to help save people because he couldn't save hers. Now he is an EMT with the local ambulance company. One fateful day he is called to a car accident scene where he helps save a woman with a past as dark as him own.Sheridan Nichols was finally able to escape after suffering years of abuse from the one man who took a vow to protect her. She swore to herself she would no longer live in fear and she would do anything and everything in her power to rebuild the life that was stripped from her. Unfortunately, fate has a funny way of sticking its nose in where it wants. Sheridan is hurt bad in a car accident and the only way she would be able to leave the hospital is if she has someone to take care of her but who? She is alone in a small town trying to start over. The man who saved her and stayed by her side while she was in the hospital, Mike, steps up and offers not only his help but his home while she is recovering.Mike knows he is going above and beyond his normal call of duty but there is something about Sheridan that pulls him to her. He knows that helping her is the right thing to do and with no other options, Sheridan excepts his help. Now, they find themselves in a situation that neither of them could have imagined. Mike and Sheridan are doing everything they can to keep their arraignment strictly platonic but the magnetizing pull is becoming too strong. As they become more comfortable around each other and being to open up, they both soon realize that the darkness and hurt from their past ties their kindred hearts together. Would Sheridan and Mike be able to save each others lives?How to Save a Life by Amber Nation is the third book in the Brown County series but it can most definitely be read as a stand alone (although I strongly recommend picking up the first two!! SOO GOOD!!) It is told from both Sheridan and Mike's POV. Amber seriously gives her readers the perfect balance of love, laughter and sadness in this book. I was hooked from the prologue. Every word was written to evoke the readers emotions and Amber made sure that your heart broke with Mike, you feared with Sheridan and flipped the pages as fast as you could possibly read to see what would happen next.When bad things happen to good people the outcome can never be predicted. I was so happy that Amber showed the dark side of Mike's loss and although he will never truly get over it, she showed us how that loss changed him, for better and worse. Sheridan's situation was completely different than Mike's but Amber gave her such a strong will that she was inspiring. Her never give up attitude was so refreshing and she had the courage to hold her head high even after the years of being beat down.Amber's writing style made this book so easy to read and she did an amazing job at making the story stand alone even though it is part of a series. She developed a plot that deals with real life, heart breaking issues and strong willed characters that I fell in love with from the very beginning. There were parts of the story that made me giggle out loud, where other parts broke my heart into a million little pieces. There was nothing about this book that I didn't like except that it ended before I was ready to be done with Sheridan and Mike.You should stand up and take a bow, Amber Nation. You delivered an amazing story that I will recommend to everyone! Thank you!