Review: Loved it..
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2012
Great great story of second chances.  Elle was literally pulled from the arms of her boyfriend by her creepy father when she was younger.  She never gave Her boyfriend Prentice a real explanation why she was suddenly leaving him, only saying it was all a mistake that they would be engaged and that it would never work between them.  Fast forward 20 years, Elle and Prentice find themselves reuniting for their mutual friend's wedding.  During the 20 year separation, both of them had married others and, in Elle's case, a marriage of convenience fell apart, and for Prentice, a good marriage ended when his wife suffered a brain tumor and died, leaving him a widower with 2 beautiful young children.  Their initial reunion was not a good experience, especially for Elle, as Prentice had obviously never gotten over the way she left him so many years earlier.  The story continues and we see how both have spent 20 years moving through life, but never really getting past the true love that they had as young lovers.  Prentice's approach was to be mean and he tried to be distant with Elle.  You couldn't help but feel sorry for Elle because really she had no choice when she left Prentice, she had a horribly mean and abusive father and in the 20 years since abandoning Prentice, she had suffered both physical, verbal and emotional abuse at the hands of her father and her rich arrogant husband.  All and all this story took us through watching Prentice and Elle fight to deny their true feelings and then fight to act on their true feelings.  It was an emotional roller coaster as they could both be very stubborn people.  The secondary characters of their friends and family were really great, most especially Prentice's children, and his ghost of a wife, Fiona, and Elle's friend Mikey. Loved this book and as always, Kristen Ashley never ceases to amaze.  I loved all her bad boy books, and loved all the Rock Chicks, and didn't really think I would like the "fantasy" books, but boy was I wrong.  This series, Ghosts and Reincarnations is awesome.  We still get the alpha males she does sooooo well, the beautiful and smart heroines, the strong family and friends, and always hot hot love scenes, all with a bit of whimsy.  Highly recommend this series and anything Kristen Ashley.