Review: Such an Amazing Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
Review by Jen (BestSellers & BestStellars)Skipping Stones was an amazing story.  This was a story about love, loss, and heartbreak.  Your emotions will be all over the place, and you will feel like you’re in the story.  There will be times you’ll laugh, but you definitely need tissues.  This story will rip your heart out before slowly piecing it back together again.  I do have to state that Skipping Stones is different from the other books J.B. McGee has written, but it was a fantastic read!  J.B. did an awesome job with this novel!Alexandria Hart is planning to spend her summer vacation with her grandparents while her parents take a vacation.  She thinks she’s in for a great summer, but things don’t go as planned.  Alex’s world comes to a devastating stop when she suffers a horrible tragedy.  She is completely torn apart, having to deal with her feelings of grief and heartache, until she meets Drew.Drew Foster seems to be the only one that can comfort Alex.  He is sweet, caring, and compassionate.  He seems to make her forget what’s going on in her life just by spending time with her.  He has an instant connection with Alex and is extremely protective of her.Just when Alex thinks things are starting to turn around and she is on her way to healing, she finds it’s too good to be true.  Her world is turned upside down again.  Can Alex deal with more heartbreak?  Or are things going to finally change for the better?I really loved Alex!  She was such a beautiful, sweet, caring, and strong person.  I really felt everything she was going through.  My heart broke for her.  No one should have had to deal with everything she did.“I can’t contain the feeling that someone has taken a scalpel and sliced my chest wide open.”Alex goes to the creek by her grandparent’s house because that’s her comfort zone.  She meets Drew there unexpectedly, but what she doesn’t know at that point, is Drew will become an essential piece of stability and comfort for her with everything she goes through.“I clench the rock that I’m sitting on.  You make me forget.  I want to forget.  I want to be lost with you.  Please take me to another place, a happy place.”When Alex met Drew, she didn’t realize or even plan to develop feelings for him.  He was just a stranger that turned into a friend.“Stranger, or not, he is hope.  He’s hope for me that I may be able to find some resemblance of happiness in the future.  He’s a ray of sunshine seeping in an empty otherwise black hole that sucks me in with each tear shed and every memory remembered.”With everything Alex had to deal with, Drew was always there to help and comfort her, and make her realize she needed to keep on living.“He’s genuine, caring, and compassionate.  It’s like God knew I needed him.  I am convinced he’s here to get me through this.  He’s a reason for living.”I loved every single thing about Drew!  He is sweet, caring, romantic, and on top of all of that, he is an amazing friend to Alex.  He meets her at the creek and comforts her when she cries.  Even though he doesn’t know her, he wants to help her.“I don’t know what’s going on with you, but I know that I just met you and already I wish I could make it all better.”He definitely had his sweet moments in this story.  I fell in love with him from the beginning, but he kept making me swoon.“Everything... Come back to me.  I’ll teach you how to deal with those beautiful tears of yours.  I’ll teach you how to breathe again.  I’ll teach you everything.”He really cared about Alex, and I loved the way he was around her.  He made her laugh and he was always there for her when she needed him.  He always knew just what to say to comfort her.“I know you probably feel like there’s no color left in this world.  Like there’s no light, instead all darkness.  But there’s sunshine.  There are colorful flowers all around us ... And for me, you’re the only thing ... the only one I see.  The only one I’ve ever seen in a long time ... I know it’s hard to imagine, but one day you’ll see the colors again.”Drew definitely had feelings for Alex.  The more time he spent with her, the more his intense his feelings were.“Even without making love to her, I had already given her the one thing I had guarded the most, my heart.  It’s like a puzzle with the most important piece in the middle missing, forever lost.  It will never be complete or whole again, of that I am sure.”I loved this book!  I think it was great to see the connection between Alex and Drew.  I loved seeing them together, becoming great friends.  This story ripped my heart out!  I haven’t cried while reading a book in awhile, and it was most definitely an ugly cry!  I definitely recommend having a box of tissues nearby.The quality of writing was great.  The story was well-written and very enjoyable to read.  This was such a heartbreakingly beautiful romance between two characters that had such an amazing connection to each other.  The story kept me interested and I really enjoyed following Alex and Drew on their journey.  I could not put this book down.  I could not put it down and I read the entire novel in less than five hours!!5 Diamonds for this sweet, amazing love story!!