Review: Honest review given
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
What a lovely emotional book this is. Talia Landon is talented ballet dancer that is destined for the greatest of stages in her profession. Lincoln Presley is a talented baseball player and he too is destined to reach the professional level of his chosen career. Their paths first cross under the most tragic of circumstances for Talia at the opeining of the book and so starts the beginning of an ill fated but undeniable connection for these two star struck talents who paths are destined to keep crossing.Talia is a emotionally blocked girl that is so focused on her dancing that she doesn't have time for relationships and so is quite hard and promicuous for a girl of seventeen, she is also an habitual liar and maybe a little fantasist. Lincoln too is a closed book with his focus fully on his career and no time for relationships. When she meets Lincoln for a second time there is an instant connection between the two though Talia has no recollection of their first meeting and she lies her way through the evening. And so paves a path that will have a huge impact on them both.They both go their ways to pursue their careers, making decisions along the way that they will both come to regret. I was so moved by Talia yet at the same time I wanted to shake her at times and get some response from her that wasn't her shut off self thinking. Life just seems to pull Talia along and she just lets it so long as she can dance. Unfortunately Talia is rarely encouraged to face up to the issues life has thrown at her and she just stumbles on with such lack of emotion. Both Talia and Lincoln are manipulated by people in their individual circles but as they are so focused on nothing but their careers they just don't see it.Talia and Lincoln try to move on with other lovers but fate just has other plans for these two and keeps throwing them in each others paths. Some of the reading three quarters of the way through is really tough and sad reading and your heart just breaks for Talia again and again.This is a difficult book to review without giving away any of the twists and turns of the story that I believe are better read by going in blind with this book so I will just say that I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to those that enjoy an emotionally charged read. There are quite a few sub characters that also add greatly to the story and for the most part it is a brilliantly constructed story, sadly there are a few editing issues through the book that did cause me to stop and reread a few times, despite that given the strength of the story I still award five stars.