Review: Completely Blown Away 5++++Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
WOW, I have so much love for Kerri Williams right now!!  This was a beautiful book.'I'm not single and I'm not taken.  I'm simply on reserve for the one who deserves my heart because they say good things come to those who wait.' ~UnknownHarper Kennedy is the new girl in town.  She only really has one friend, her cousin, April.  That is fine with her though because she doesn't have time to devote to new friends.  The last thing that she needs is someone else to leave behind when she goes.  Then her cousin takes her out for one last night of fun and she meets Vaun Campbell.  Vaun is a beautiful boy with a broken heart and a messed up relationship with his father.  The last thing either of them need is to get in to a relationship with each other, fate has a different idea though.'I don't know why but I need Harper to get to know me, not the person everyone sees, the guy I let them see.  I want her to know the real me, the new me, the man I want to be even when everything in the world is stacked up against me.'Harper and Vaun have an intense connection that they can not deny.  Harper tries to keep him at an arms length to keep from hurting him, but he doesn't want to stay away from her.  She finally gives in and allows him in.  She's afraid to let him know her secret though lest he should get hurt, and hurt her in the process.  This is a story of love, understanding, and hope.'I know I should be embarrassed and I should be worried that I could bare such sorrow to a stranger when I keep it closed from the ones who love me most, but Vaun doesn't feel like stranger.  He feels like an old friend.  One I had once and lost and found again.  A friend who understands my tears aren't a moment of weakness but of love.  Vaun and I share a kindred spirit of pain, in so many ways different, but heart altering all the same.'I was literally in tears before I even started the story.  Kerri and Chase's stories (read here:[...] had me bawling.  I took this as a good sign going into the book, as I love nothing more than a story that'll make me cry.  And cry I did. A. LOT.  Harper's story was tragic, but as a parent (and spouse) I was completely devastated by what her father was dealing with.  I just couldn't even imagine how one person could deal with all of the pain that the Kennedy family had been dealt.  I loved her little brother, he was like a little ray of sunshine in the middle of a thunderstorm.  He and Vaun had me laughing more than once."I love you, Blue.  I love you more than anything left here on this earth and I think we were meant to find one another.  You saved me and now... I'm going to save you."Where can I get a Vaun, I think that it is imperative that I have one.  He was so wonderfully supportive, and unwavering in his love of Harper, despite her best attempts to push him away.  After the things that he had just went though the fact that he was able to be the person he was for Harper was amazing.  I was completely blown away by that man, um boy? I'm going with man, anyone who has been through what Vaun has, is a man."The only way you'll be saying goodbye to me is though death and even then I don't want to.  I will remember today, tonight, and tomorrow in your arms, under these exceptionally bright stars which I believe spark just for us.  I will remember the warmth of your arms around me and your smell, the feel of your cotton tee against my cheek."This is an 'instalove' story.  I didn't mind at all, I thought that it worked in this capacity.  I know that a lot of people have it though, so I'm putting it out there.  The pull between these two was so palpable that, as a reader, I knew that they had no choice but to be together.  Their journey was far from typical but it was completely beautiful.  And the understanding of their respective fathers' through their love for one another was amazing. Never Goodbye is not a cliffhanger, hallelujah!!  I don't think that my heart would have been able to handle not knowing the fate of Harper and Vaun!! I really have nothing bad to say about this book, except that I was sad that it was over.  I will be anxiously awaiting April and Carter's story (I hoping for a little more Harper and Vaun, quite honestly!!) due out in early 2014!!"Vaun?""Mmm""I love you."He kisses my head.  " I love you more."I smile.  "I love you more, times a thousand."He laughs and I love the echo from his neck to my ear.  The[n] he says, "I love you a billion times more.""I love you infinity.""I love you infinity plus one.""I think I beat you.  There is nothing higher than infinity."He strokes my arm and sighs, "I love you first."