Review: heartbreaking, heartwarming and completely unexpected
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
Well it took me a while to figure out what I was going to say about this book.  Sometimes you read a book and it stays with you, lingering in your brain for several days... This is one of those books!  I can't stop thinking about the twists and turns and how I didn't see anything coming, and never in a million years did I think it would turn the way it did.  When you read as many books as some of us do you start predicting in your head the way things will go... Well Phoebe Lane I stand up and applaud you because NOTHING about this one was predictable for me... I typically have a keen sense of what is happening before it happens and let me say that the moment that this book takes the turn you will be catching fly's with your mouth hanging open!  Never and I mean NEVER did I see this one coming.Aislynn is terribly broken and for VERY good reason...  Jace is broken too... But the reasons that they are broken are very unique!  I have to say that I'm not sure that I have read a book that had either of these situations before.Aislynn is running from a past that she cannot outrun no matter how hard she tries.  She struggles desperately to be able to let go and let Jace in but she is terrified of the past and how much it haunts her.  But what everyone around believes is her struggle isn't quite what they think.  She's been holding something back about the past that nobody but her knows.  It's slowly killing her inside and you can see it in the sorrow throughout the book.  I wanted to throw something at times because you'd feel like you were just on the edge of finding out what it is and then you get pulled back again.  It was like foreplay to the extreme...Jace is freaking awesome... I have to say that if there was a perfect man out there his name is Jace Quinn... He is so loving and tender despite his past and the crap hand he's been dealt recently.  When push comes to shove he stands tall and accepts things with grace and doesn't run from the challenges.  He's afraid to open up but Aislynn breaks down barriers he erected after several love gone WAY WRONG situations he's been in.  When Jace opens up about the past to her, I have to say I wanted to shake someone... And the sad thing is that you know that it happens all the time.  Not everyone faced with the issues Jace was dealing with can be strong enough for themselves and another person.  I was teary when he went through his story about the past... It was heartbreaking...The moment when everything changes in this book, I think I literally speechless.  It was something that I didn't see coming at all.  It wasn't even on the radar of thoughts in my head.  When you get to that point you will see what I mean and I am sure you will also say HOLY S(#T, did that just really happen???? I was shocked to say the least and then I felt sad for Aislynn...One of my favorite parts about this was that Aislynn was writing a book and that turned out to be therapeutic for her, and also achieved her dream.  Her demons were unleashed on the manuscript that she was writing and even though she hesitated, her editor pushed her to keep going and exercise her demons on paper...  It was something that I think a lot of people do.  Writing down your feelings sometimes make them real, and gives them validation when you think others wouldn't understand.  Luckily for Aislynn her's gave her new found hope!!!I cannot rave enough about this book.  I could probably have a day long conversation about everything in this book I loved.  I hope that you pick up this one and give it a chance.  I assure you that you will LOVE IT!  Phoebe weaves a story that is heartbreaking, heartwarming and completely unexpected!  5 BIG STARS for Cursive!