Review: Ridge!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
This is the first book I have read by Ms. Adriane Leigh.  It was fantastic and now I need to get her other books.  Her writing is fantastic.  Ridge was a very emotional book.  It dealt with a lot of turmoil coming from the characters.  It was an eternal inner battle between right, wrong, good, and bad.  Ridge is bad, very bad.  He can't seem to help it and because of that there is no dislike for him.  He wasn't to be good he really does.  He just can't seem to get it right.  Now he wants to fix what he's broken.  He wants to be better.  Even if that means sacrificing the one thing he has truly never had.  True love!The book begins with Ridge coming to a decision and breaking up with Mia.  She was once engaged to his brother.  They had an emotional and physical affair while she was with her brother.  Mia is the only women who Ridge has been comfortable with and who he has truly been himself with.  The guilt of their relationship has eaten at him and now he needs to make amends with his brother.  So he breaks Mia's heart and pretty much kicks her out of his bed.  He doesn't want to but he doesn't feel like he has a choice.  He only has one brother and that has to be more important than a woman.  He liked what he had with Mia and now is looking to fill that void she has left.  He ends up in a relationship that is just ok.  He still can't stop thinking of Mia.  He still tries to make it work with Amy his new girlfriend and although he treats her poorly she falls head over heals in love with him,  Ridge attempts to push her away but she is relentless on keeping him.  Ridge discovers that he will never be able to return her feelings.  It is almost painful to read because you actually feel bad for Ridge.  He is suffering big time and he is still struggling with a drug addiction.  That's the thing Ridge has a very addictive personality and he has a hard time giving up one addiction to another.  There is a point in the story where he just finds himself so lost that you just want to put him out of his misery.  The one person who can help pull him out of it is the one person he thinks he will never have.Mia and Ridge are so attuned to each other.  When I started reading I just wasn't sure how big of a roll she was going to play since he was set on repairing his relationship with his brother.  It was a rollercoaster ride of all rollercoaster rides.  A darker story and a more emotionally charged book.  I read it as a stand alone but I was really interested in the other characters in the book and their stories.  I am looking forward to reading more from Adriane in the future.