Review: A definate must read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
Writing this review is slightly difficult, I don’t quite know how to articulate my feelings for this book.My mind hasn’t quite allowed it all to sink in honestly. One thing that it has made very clear was that this is one book everyone should read this year, its contents will leave you feeling good even though there are some teary moments.The book follows the lives of Maggie and Charlie and their tight knit group of friends, all residents of Brown County.Maggie is a nurse, who has never been loved her whole life.  Her parents could’ve cared less for her, and she was her father’s punching bag on more then one on occasion. A near death experience landing her in hospital is what prompted her to become a nurse, so that she can help others.She keeps to herself mostly, but once she’s welcomed into Charlie’s group of friends, she has people she can depend on for the first time in her life, something she’s never had before. Just like finding love and being loved for the first time in her life.Charlie is an undercover FBI agent, although the only people that know that are Emma and Grady, who were let in on the secret in a previous book. To the towns folk he’s just the bartender at Grady’s and a bass player on the local band, the Nations Capital.He wishes more then anything else that he wasn’t an FBI agent, a profession which was thrust on him due to the fact that his father and uncle are both in the FBI. He just wants to be able to put roots down in one place, instead of going where he’s assigned to.Meeting Maggie changes him and he falls head over heels in love with her. But he fails to mention that he’s really an FBI agent who’s investigating her brother and his boss for drug distribution and human trafficking. The longer he leaves it the harder it gets.Keeping secrets, especially damning ones like these always come back to bite you in the butt!!! But will it destroy Maggie and Charlie’s relationship when she does??? Will she see him as just another person who’s let her down?The book is a roller coaster of emotions from start to finish. In my opinion any book written that allows you to feel the raw emotions its characters are feeling is a great book, and you feel all that in this book.I felt anger. I felt compassion. I felt elation. I felt passion. I felt love. I felt fear.You laugh.You cry.You want to slap some sense into certain people.You want to wrap your around some and tell them everything’s going to be okay.The book highlights some important things….You always have HOPE.True friendship and its power is so important in our everyday lives. True friends stick by you no matter what.Love always finds a way, even if it does take a while for you to get there.and above all else…. EVERYBODY DESERVES TO BE LOVED***** out of 5 stars for having absolutely everything a good book should have.