Review: A beautiful crafted Classic Love story with a twist
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2013
I have read many stories from many different genres and it's not very often that a book can move me the way Lila's Loves by Laylah Roberts has done.  From the first sentence in the prolog till the last word in this heart wrenching, emotional, tender and passionate love story, I was hooked.We first meet Lila as a seven year old child, hiding in the alley during a storm, not being able to go home because her mother has a gentleman caller (term used very loosely) She is found by Clay Richards, a single father from Texas. Clay is pissed to find this petite girl on her own in the alley, outraged that a mother could treat her child in such a fashion and refusing to just leave her there, so he takes her home.  Once he makes the realization that Lila isn't wanted by her mother, he decides to take her back to Texas with him and raise her as his own, along with his 3 adopted boys.The scene between Clay and Lila was touching... Clay so loving and tender with the tiny frighten girl. His gentle kind heart was touching. The prolog alone had me in tears. Not only had this man taken in 3 teenage boys, Trace, Colin and Gavin to raise as a single dad, now he was going to raise a small little girl as well.  What a man!The story starts 16 years later with Lila living in AZ, she has left the ranch in Texas she grew up on because she has fallen in love with the three boys she was raise with. She knows they love her like a sister and would never understand that what she is feeling towards them isn't brotherly love.  Lila doesn't even think they liked her, since they avoid her every time she goes home for a visit.  What Lila doesn't know is that Gavin, Trace and Colin feel the same way about her, they had already decided that she would be theirs, but had made a promise to Clay, a few years back to leave her alone for a period of time, allowing her time to become a young lady.One night Trace and Colin show up at her door step, they are there to bring her home, Clay is dying.Ok, if I though the scenes in the alley were heart wrenching, the hospital scene, when Lila see Clay, ripped my heart right out of my chest!! I found myself wanting to know more about this magnificent caring man.A little later when all feelings between Lila and Gavin, Trace and Colin are finally revealed, Lila is shocked that anyone could want her let alone these three men.  They are three Alpha men to the max, very protective of Lila and woven throughout the book, we get the background story on how each boy came to be with Clay.  Every single one of their tales was moving.The rest of the story is the emotional journey that all 4 characters have to take, in order for their relationship to work.Laylah Roberts did a fantastic job of shows us the raw, emotional effect childhood neglect or trauma can have on us todayeven as adults.  It can totally cloud our thought patterns and even our self-perception. This is the battle what Lila, Gavin, Trace and Colin faced.By the end of Lila's Loves, I couldn't help but cheer for these four beautifully crafted characters.  This is truly a love story, even if not in a classic sense, a women and a man, but of one women and three men.Warning: this book contains sexual scene between M/F/M/M who were raised together but are not related. There is also consensual spanking.