Review: Bloody hell where is the rest?!?!??!?!?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review (and the challenge of having it done in 24 hours)...honestly if it had not been for this pesky thing called my job it would have been done in 3 hrs tops. This book is so beautifully written I will probably reread it to be sure I didn't miss anything. Aleah is a young girl who in her heart of hearts wants to believe there is something more out there for her and her life.  To be able to escape the suffocating customs of her family and harsh father for having brought "shame" upon them. When she was at the lowest of her low having no options but believing SOMETHING would intervene to save her from a future with nothing to offer, it is a stranger who reaches out his hand and offers her that chance. Not a handout, but a simple change to stand on her own two feet, to take that step forward and make something of herself through her own hard  work and determination.  When you lose all you have, the only place you have to go is up. The character development in this book was phenomenal!!! I loved Aleah, i hated Aleah, I loved and hated Aidan (the grandson of the man who held out his hand to help Aleah). David appeared to have something of a reputation in his younger days which had estranged him from his family and he was very ill and trying hard to make amends not with them so much but with himself, to right one wrong of his past. I will be left with this story for days after today...there is a MASSIVE cliffhanger!!! WHEN?!?!? WHEN is the next one?!?!??!?! I think to a degree all of us women can relate to at least one of the trials/emotions Aleah goes through in this book, and our reactions may be the same, they may have taken another path, but ultimately (hopefully) they were all learning experiences which is really what I took out of this book. Life gives you lemons do you  make lemonades, or do you add a shot of vodka...life perspective and how do YOU want to make your mark. Fabulous fabulous read!!!