Review: Beautifully Addicted!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
*I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*Josie is a young girl in San Diego surviving from day to day trying to escape the pain that is her past with sex, drugs and her art. At least the past she can remember.Josie has amnesia since the age of fourteen and has no idea why she was shipped across the country only to be placed in one abusive foster home after another. She got out when she turned eighteen and never looked back.Tristan makes his living as a bartender trying to escape his past. One night, while on break, he runs into a ghost from his past. He thought McKenzi was dead and now she stands before him.Tristan, never wanting to lose McKenzi again, meets her after work one night to find out what happened. She doesn't have the answers he's looking for. Only that she's in San Diego and her name is Josie. She can tell him about her life since she got her, but nothing before that.The next few weeks have Tristan and Josie spending a lot of time together trying to get to know one another and never wanting to leave each other's arms. In the mean time, their pasts come back to haunt them. Tristan's former boss has one final job for him and Josie learns that she's been found.Tristan has no choice but to accept his final job. If he wants to live.Josie needs to leave San Diego, but does she have it in her to start over, again?Even though she doesn't remember him before San Diego, she just got Tristan back. Can she leave him? Will he go with her?This book was beautifully written. Emotions were high and I found myself on the edge of my seat and biting my nails right along with the characters. I couldn't put it down once I started reading. I could feel Josie's frustration with herself as Tristan recounts events of their past. She wants to remember and is upset that she can't.I have found a new author in Season Vining and I can't wait to read more of her work!