Review: A new start and second chances
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
"When I see something I want, Lucy, I got for it...So, challenge accepted."Can start off by saying where is this Knox Taylor and where can I find him?! Like seriously, where is he?! lolThis story was beautiful and emotional from start to finish. At the beginning, we meet Lucy. She is in a very abusive relationship and she's finding it harder and harder to get away from it. After dealing with emotional abuse from her mother, she is now dealing emotional, spiritual and physical abuse from the man she thought she loved. She finally found the strength and courage to get away and she headed to New York. She started her new life and found an amazing roommate named Megan (who is so adorable, btw). She worked the cosmetics counter in a high end department store and life was treating her well, but she was still scared."The physical scars had healed the best they were going to, but the emotional ones were with me for the long haul."One day at work, her world was turned upside down. Enter Knox Taylor. He oozed wealth and sex appeal and he only had eyes for Lucy. She couldn't deny the feelings she was having towards him, but at the same time she felt she couldn't trust him. How can she ever trust any man again? Will every man hit her? Will every man degrade her?She pushed him away for so long that they agreed to just be friends. Knox had other plans though. He wanted her to let him in. To show her how a woman should be treated."I don't know why you have so many walls up, or why my calling you beautiful makes you uncomfortable, but I'm going to break through them, Lucy. I promise you that."She knew he was wearing her down, but her insecurities kept getting the best of her. After you have been in such a horrible relationship for so long, how would it be possible to feel adored and loved again?"He could have any woman he wanted, yet here he was with me. He was the most intoxicating man I had ever met and deep down I knew he could do so much better."But Knox was patient. He wasn't planing to ever leave her. He would wait forever if he had to."When you're ready, I'm here to listen, to be there for you, okay?"Finally, Lucy let her guard down from around her heart and learned to trust Knox. She was falling fast for him and she knew it was too good to be true."My heart beat a little faster. The feelings inside of me were overwhelming. Knox was the real thing."As her love of Knox grew so did the feeling that something wasn't right. Problems that she knew would come back to haunt her were making their way back towards her quickly. The one thing that changed this time was that she had someone by her side. She had Knox. She wasn't alone anymore. She wasn't that scared girl anymore. She had survived.This story wasn't just a normal love story. It had a very serious subject inside of it. Abuse is nothing to take lightly. Whether you were a victim of it or a witness to it, it stays with you forever. Sometimes those feelings attack you at the least likely moment. This book shows you a side of that and it was very well done.I loved the way Knox handled everything with Lucy. He knew something was wrong and someone had hurt her, but he didn't know the whole truth. It makes you believe that anyone can love again after a bad relationship. I'm a hopeless romantic, so this pulled hard at my heartstrings:)I recommend this book to anyone wanting a story of strength, courage, love and learning to live again. Great read!!"I know my life had changed for the better, because of Knox."