Review: Powerful! Heartbreaking and Amazing! Go Adele!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
This book was just a heartbreaker. As someone else said, heed the warning. This book is about a victim of domestic violence who finds her strength and breaks out of the cycle. The opening scene had me in tears and I almost could not finish this book. I don't know how Reana Malori did it, but that scene was so intense. As I moved through the story, I learned to appreciate the heroine (Adele) and appreciated what she was trying to do. She first needed to find her own way of moving forward. It wasn't easy, but it was necessary.I absolutely love her five protectors - they were awesome and I can't wait until their stories come out. Every woman needs a protector (or five) and the ones in this story were perfect for the heroine.Meeting the hero sets a series of events in motion that won't allow Adele to ever go back to person she was before. There is a final confrontation in this book that had me screaming and yelling "Go Adele! You go Girl!" and I was so happy that scene was included. As a reader, that scene gave me strength and it was perfect. Yes, this is a book and it's fiction, but we have to realize that not every woman in an abusive relationship will get her happy ending. So, why not live through Adele and the power she shares with all of us? Women CAN fight back. Women CAN be more than just what someone tries to make them. Women CAN take their power back. Yes, it's just a story, but we don't hear enough of this and we need to.This book was so powerful and so painful at the same time. I felt for Adele, but I cheered for her at the same time. She did it on her own terms AND found her happily ever after. I absolutely love this book. I mean really and truly LOVE this book. Reana Malori tore at my heart strings and made me want to write and ask her why did she have to write this story. But once I read it, I totally got it. It was a story that needed to be told. Just Wow!