Review: Great story - a must read!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
This book showed up on my list of recommended reads from Amazon. I read the synopsis, it was a premise that I love - the professor and student forbidden love affair, and decided to give it a go even though there were only a handful of reviews to go by (all of them 5 stars, so that gave me more of a push).** SPOILERS **I started reading the book and just could not stop. Blurry eyes and breaking dawn be damned but I just could not put down this book. It was that good. The story really grabbed me.If you like angst in your books, then this is the book for you. By God, I just can't believe what these two characters had to endure to get their HEA. Yes, there is an HEA but it's way, way, way towards the end.Gregory and Savannah...oh! My heart just broke for these two (several times). The story began when Savannah was only 17 years old, auditioning for the NEC. She is a brilliant flutist and came from a musically gifted family. Gregory is a brilliant cellist and was in the judge's panel during Savannahs' audition. That was when he first noticed her.Fast forward three years and Gregory ended up a professor in one of Savannah's classes. So here is where the taboo student/teacher relationship came into play. They had this intense attraction but could not act upon it. I was just rooting for them to find a way to be together but how? He's got a career to protect and she is a prodigy that is headed for greatness.Just when you think that nothing can ever happen between these two, it finally happened. I was all, yeah, finally - love prevailed. But my happiness was short-lived, my heart was broken. That moment when Gregory told his friend of his decision to end his relationship with Savannah and she overheard the entire conversation, I gasped. But I didn't lose hope. I gripped my Kindle hard and told myself that `NO, Gregory will not let her go just like that. No way.' But he did. He gave her up. And I hated him for that. Hated him.The story picked up 5 years later. Yes, they met again 5 years later. I will not go into more details about what happened after that meeting and what their circumstances were. But it made me cry. Just when I thought that the story will just revolve around a reconciliation type thing, it didn't. My heart broke for them - again. The authors did an exquisite job with this book. I could really feel the hurt, the betrayal, the heartache. It was brilliantly written. The emotions that this book evoked in me were just beyond my expectations. I truly loved this book. Truly.  I highly recommend it.