Review: Love this author, love this book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2012
This is my 5th Kristen Ashley book in the last month, and I think it may be my favorite. I read the last 2 in the Colorado series and this whole series. All of her books are very long, (I love that--I read a regular book in a day or two, hers take 3-4) have action right up until the end, have hot, strong alpha males, slightly older couples, (often with kids), nice long epilogues, and you can't put any of them down. They all have a great amount of action mixed with emotion. But this one in particular had SO MANY DIFFERENT things going on!Ms. Ashley tackled parenthood, divorce, child abuse, (in many ways--but I don't wan't to spoil), teaching, dirty cops, sports, teenagehood, mental illness, loss of a parent, PTSD and so much more into an action packed romance. I cried my eyes out in a few spots for both good and bad reasons.I absolutely love her writing (though is "yeah?" at the end of a sentence a common thing from the midwest? All of her characters say this, and I have never heard it). I have not read the Rock Chick series, but now, I don't think I want to skip any of her books. I love them all. This one though, out of all 5 I read, I think is my favorite because of all the issues dealt with in such a way that you never lost track of any of them. I also enjoyed the interaction between the characters from the other books. While this can certainly be read as a stand-alone, I think it is more fulfilling to read after the other two. This will be on my favorites list.