Review: Beautiful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
*** I received this ARC from St. Martin's Griffin in exchange for my honest review. (NetGalley) ***The first thing what I should mention is the cover, yeah it's beautiful, so it was a 'judge a book by it's cover' for me.I really liked the story it wasn't the typical NA romance, so it was something new to me.Josie Banks is a girl without a past. After being found unconscious with no memory, she was shuffled in and out of foster homes where she suffered years of abuse. An experience that left her broken, damaged, and clinging to drugs and meaningless hook-ups to numb her pain.First I was a bit confused because there are so many different POV and those just shifting, but it's also intresting and after a while you feel it necessary to understand the circumstances.Josie's suffered a tragic loss, she experienced amnesia and has been put on a witness protection program. She left behind Tristan...To numb the pain she uses sex and drugs and of course drawing. She is a kind of dark artist for me.Josie kind of stalking him, in a bar where he works.When they reunited, he tries to help Josie recollect and remember things of her past...When Josie disappeared years ago, she took a piece of Tristan with her.Now a twist of fate has brought them back together, and he never wants to let her out of his inked arms again. But Tristan is haunted by a dark past of his own.Both are broken and jaded and there are so-so many emotions in this book. I loved it, loved them. It's really a great debut novel. Both character is well-built, and Tristan is really caring.But will the past leave their love in ruins—or bind them together for a lifetime?