Review: LOLA and DEAN sitting in a tree.. :)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
OkayI received this ARC in exchanged of an HONEST review1st - I would like to say 2014 is becoming a year of so many amazing NEW authors!! And Lisa Helen Gray is one of them, in my opinion!This is her debut novel, and let me just say, with just the title, she had me hooked.-If I could I would wish it all away-I would too; I think there isn’t a person in the world that wouldn’t!Everyone has secrets or little bits and pieces of ourselves we would like to change or erase!This book is about Lola. This is her story!She went for what looked like the easy and safe relationship for her and she settled. For five long years she settled herself in an abusive relationship with Patrick “Rick” but for any reason what so ever I shall mention him as the BS!Lola is a very strong woman, I would like to say she should be the role model for all the women out there with an abusive relationships! You can, and you must say, enough is enough! It’s never too late to defend yourself and grab the reigns of your life!And with that attitude Lola runs away from the BS and goes back to Cabe Lake, her childhood cabin! Where she feels connected to her deceased parents, and she reconnects with her parents old friends and her childhood crush! A place where she feels safe!Here we meet, Dean, the childhood crush.. but he is not a boy anymore, with 6’2 he is all man! Dean is very protective of Lola, he is a caring soul and tries his best to bring the old Lola back, unfortunately to accomplish that he needs to take his time trying to make her leave the shell she created around her, in the same time trying to find what happen to her and of course breaking the walls she built around her heart and try to win it at the end! :)Happy note: Lola gets her very well deserved HEA, the road to get there wasn’t easy, but I think the important message that I am taking with me from this is – WITH friends you can do EVERYTHING! -This book was well written, we get to the very end living through the characters, getting all the emotions, their dreams, their wishes and regrets.The book is about 130 pages so there isn’t time to put it down, it’s one of those books you just want to hug the MC and tell her everything will be alright at the end! As the writing, I read it in one-go! It had some really funny moments, some drama, a few moments where it made me want to get inside the book to shake some characters or stalk the author and shake her for making me so anxious. It can be described as a roller coaster of emotions, very good and supportive characters, yes there were some places where we get some missing details,and I would like a little behind the scenes about Lola past and her parents, to make me connect more emotionally with the character but as the author first book I can’t be too demanding, but I can honestly say I am intrigued where Lisa H. Gray will go next! And I can tell you I will be there to find out!I am really thankful for the chance of reading this before it got published and for the Author to trust me with her first babe! 5 STARS!! :)Something that i do with ALL my reviews - the songs I choose to describe this book are from The Fray -How to save a life and Bruno Mars- Count on me!