Review: A second chance at love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2011
"Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe things happen for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."- Author unknown -Lieutenant Alec Colton and February Owens were high school sweethearts. They were even speaking about marriage and kids, then something very bad happened and they separated. What happened so many years ago was quite disastrous and the consequences dire. On top of that, they couldn't even process it due to special circumstances. After their separation Feb needs someone to fill the hole Alec left. It isn't a hole. It's a wound, and February can't close the wound, so she needs someone to numb the pain. Or someone to take her mind off it. Pete Hollister is that man, and he is really good at numbing her pain. Until he abuses her and nearly rapes her. FOR HER Colt drives straight to her house and nearly beats the life out of Feb's husband. After that "incident" Feb leaves her hometown. Fifteen years later, Feb comes back to help her family with their bar. When some creepy, sick psycho starts to fix onto her and is murdering people FOR HER and sends her notes from high school, Colt and Feb get closer. Again. She is forced to spend time with Colt, since he tries to protect her. While the story unfolds, Feb has to let go of the pain and decides to live her life before it's too late. And something else is happening too...she's letting Colt back in, or he just pushes his way in, probably both. A man going all out to protect a woman and some hot kisses could make something like that happen, after all.For You is another good story written by Kristen Ashley. As always she did a fine job developing the main protagonists as well as quite a lot of interesting secondary characters. For You features some very likeable characters, a good plot, good dialogs and a sweet and nicely wrapped up HEA. Colt is another hot, caring, protective, and lovable hero. Boy, I wouldn't expect anything less! I know, I know, I'm totally spoiled but Kristen writes such toe-curling heroes. Yum!I liked For You a lot but I didn't love it though. I didn't love it due to the heroine. On the one hand, I liked Feb. I liked her clothes and jewelry (her style) and I liked her smile and laugh. On the other hand, she had too much crying jags. During the first half of the book she was too weepy for my liking. Admittedly, this woman had serious reasons to be weepy, and once she totally lost it and freaked out. Honestly, I felt that she needed some serious counseling. It was not enough to swallow the problems down by taking some sleeping pills. Feb comes across as nice and likable, yet she is distant, detached when it comes to Colt. Further, she seems to be lonely. I admit that I can relate and I get it after what happened to her. Then again, those are not traits I like when it comes to the heroine. There were many ambivalent feelings between H/h and lucky me, about halfway through the book we got to the bottom of it. I was really glad because after THE talk I felt much more good chemistry between Colt and February. They hit it off. I truly loved the interaction between the family and friends. The family dynamic was absolutely wonderful and was so well done again. The scenes in the interrogation room were great too with good dialogs and interesting characters. I can't say it enough but I love how Kristen writes about the hero touching the heroine. Beautiful!For You is another engaging and well written story by Kristen Ashley. Again, the story is extremely long but it is worth your time and money. Don't read it for the suspense though. I think that the suspense was only a minor part of the story. It was much more about a second chance at love. Give it a try and enjoy!