Review: A BOOK EVERYONE MUST READ!  AMAZING!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
I adored this book and believe it or not I am having trouble writing this review because I want to do justice to the book!  Its an amazing story of heartbreak, love, and fate that makes you look at life a little different.  This is truly one of those books that pulls at your heart strings and will stay with you love after you have read it.We start the book with Alex spending her summer vacation with her grandparents in South Carolina.  Being a Cali girl myself I love the southern references.  I think I was a southern belle in a past life or something because I love it! But anyways...  Soon after the books start tragedy strikes and from the beginning my heart is ripped out of my chest.  Alex has to deal with death and loss at such a young age of 15.  She finds herself at the lake down the road from her grandparents' property where she meets Drew.  He's a little older and not someone she has seen around the town before.  When they meet, he is able to help her get through her heartbreak and makes life more bearable.  He is able to fill the void of in heart that was missing."While I don't know much, I do know he's been the only person able to get me to feel like I'm not connected to a lead ball that is sinking into the ocean., thousands of miles beneath the surface.  He's been the air my lungs can't seem to find in the any other way or place."But just as quickly as him coming into her life, he is gone.  It's like he never existed.  Nobody knows him and nobody knows where he or his family went.  If it wasn't for the deep connection that they shared she would have thought she dreamed him.  Even though their time was short lived, she knows he was the one who will always hold her heart.Years go by and Alex cannot let go of finding Drew.  She is determined to find him but there are always dead ends.  Because of events that happened when she was younger, she decides to become a doctor but also enrolls in the Army to help with the costs of college.  Then 9/11 happens... She is shipped overseas and in a brief second before an explosion, she sees her lost love again.  While recovery she asked everyone about Drew if he was there.  Again, no one knows who he is. It's like he doesn't exist."I have come to the conclusion that fate has a way of beating karma."When she returns home to the states and to South Carolina, Alex is again forced to deal with death and heartbreak.  But this time, she sees and feels him and knows that he was not just a dream.  It seems fate keeps bringing Drew to her when she needs him the most.  When he comes back to her, he has his own secrets that demons that he has be dealing with.  Just as Alex has had to lead a life that was filed with heartbreak and love lost so has Drew.  Will Alex and Drew be able to work past their years of being apart and finally have the life together that Alex has dreamed of since she first met him."Someone wise once told me that when I found a girl who made me want to love her for always and in all ways, I'd find the one."This is a story that takes us through the stages of life and Alex's journey to find her true love and happiness.  I so loved this story and give it the maximum amount of stars allowed!  If you are looking for a wonderful book that pulls at your heart strings, makes you feel like you cannot breathe, but then reduces you to a crying mess that you have found the book for you!  Of course I love all those things so I absolutely loved it!!  I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone!  It's truly a MUST read!