Review: Emotional and beautifully heartbreaking!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
Emotional and beautifully heartbreaking is the best way to describe this wonderful book!! This is the third in the Room 103 series, we have previously had glimpses of Bulk and I wanted to know more about him each time!! He has been a pillar of support to his band mates and their girlfriends through turbulent times and it had been hinted that despite this he was dealing with a heartbreak of his own!! Denying Heaven is Bulk's story and what a story it is!!Denying Heaven starts with a prologue that explains the reason for Bulk's heartbreak and it is an horrendous event that no one wants to endure!! We move forward 7 years at the beginning of his story and Bulk is still left well just broken but we again see his love for his friends as he supports them through life's events and one such event begins the unravelling of Bulk!! As Bulk seeks to find solace in the bottom of a bottle, his eye is caught by Spirit!!Spirit is a member of another band and is even more broken than Bulk, more than he can know or imagine, she has found solace in a bottle and a bag of powder!! After a messy encounter between the two, Spirit and Bulk are left to cope with their own issues until a tour brings them together again!! Bulk knows Spirit has an effect on him that he has no desire to acknowledge and he is going to fight it!!Can they fight the attraction?? Can they be what each other need to find peace and happiness?? Can Spirit be enough for Bulk to finally move on and start to live life to the full again and stop anchoring after a lost past?? Can Bulk be enough for Spirit to face her demons and start to live life wholly without the support of drink and drugs?? Will the turbulent childhood lives they have fought to leave behind coupled with the devastating events of the past few years serve to be too much for each of them to push past??As Spirit and Bulk collide, and I say collide because that is how it feels,  throughout this story, their passion for each other is obvious and they share hard often aggressive sex in scenes that are both hot and devastating!! But little by little Spirits problems slowly reveal themselves and the devastation each one brings has a negative effect on each of them again and again!!  Spirits past finally catches up with her and Bulk is faced with all too unwelcome and familiar feelings but will these events bring them together or push them further apart??Above all else is Spirit really enough to make Bulk want to love again??This is not an easy on the heart love story, this is raw and turbulent!! This is an edge of your seat,  roller coaster of a story that at times made me sad, angry, devastated and made me cry again and again!! But I loved it, all of it and the ending made me cry again!! D H Sidebottom has a brilliant style of writing that reaches in, grabs you by the heart and drags your emotions along for the ride and I love it!! Thank you for such a wonderful book!!