Review: SERVED UP WITH A GALLON  OF TEARS !!!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2013
The author spent an overwhelming amount of time spinning a tale of heartache and sadness. This novel grabbed at the "gut" and it kept on tearing until I was reaching for a second box of Kleenex.  The hero Jason was the worst kind of Alpha- Male, I have ever read about. Yes, we found out much later in the novel that his early childhood was one that no child should have to endure; having said that, it still did not give him the right to treat the heroine Noelle the way he did; albeit, she stayed around for the abuse.It is obvious that the author Eve Vaughn is a talented writer; the book was well written, but I think that she missed a few opportunities to right a few wrongs along the way. The subject matter of adults, sexually abusing kids should not be glossed over; perpetrators and anyone who knew of the crime and did nothing should be taken to task even if it is 20years later. I believed that the hero's half- brother's mother should have been confronted for not protecting her son when he was a kid from his "monster" of a grand-father; also, that grand-father should have been charged or at the very least confronted before he died.The author chose to take the reader on an emotional roller coaster of sadness  for the hero, his half-brother, and the heroine. Therefore, she should have dedicated several chapters to their healing process, instead of only stating in the epilogue that both the hero and heroine sought therapy. It felt like "and by the way", they are fine now.  This might have worked in a regular novel, but unfortunately not in a novel with such magnitude of grief.This was an exhausting novel to read, it pulled at too many raw emotions. In my opinion, the author also missed the closing. The road from pain to joy was too quick, it should have been a smoother transition. It did not weed out the bad guys or allow the reader to see the healing process, which would have help the reader as well to shake the emotional impact of this novel.