Review: Blown Away
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
*SPOILER ALERT*Can I just say this cover is absolutely hot. Omg, the things I thought about doing to the cover model who is suppose to be Craig. Yummo doesn't even cover it. I really connected w/Emma in the story. I felt as though she really wanted to find true happiness but often became her own worst enemy. I am going to share some of my favorite quotes from the book between Emma & Craig.When Emma & Craig had their first kiss this was her thoughts. " he tasted like cinnamon & smelled like hickory wood." Ok that made me want a cinnamon roll & bacon. lolThis is when Craig sees Emma in her kitchen after she invited him over. "Emma, her back to him, in the kitchen smelling like vanilla & strawberries." Can we say strawberry cupcake w/vanilla icing. Gosh, I'm starving for sweets."He wanted to walk over & put his arms around her waist & drink her like a smoothie." I must say I wanted Craig doing that to me. I felt involved in this scene very much.As the story goes on & gets better & better. I find that Emma starts opening herself up to Craig. "Craig, she gasped. I want you. I want you to sweetness. The words seemed inadequate. He wanted to be inside her. To own her body. To be one w/her. To meld their very souls." Who calls anyone sweetness? That to me was the most romantic thing I've ever heard in a story in quite some time. The flow of those sentences made the book ten times more intensifying for me personally.A wildfire breaks out & Craig is rushing on scene before coming up to the empty tanker truck. When he finds out that Emma was driving his response was so sincere I started to weep. "Emma please just be OK. I forgive you. Please forgive me for being such a jerk. Please be OK. I need you. I'm so sorry.""It was night-time. Orange light filled the sky from the forest blazing beside them. Craig ran towards her, stopping in front of her. He looked down into her face, his eyes threatening to spill tears. His hair & skin were smeared w/dirt. His strong hands grasped her upper arms almost hard enough to hurt. His voice, husky & strained & weak, not sounding like him, broke & cracked as he said: I thought you were gone. I thought I had lost you. With God as my witness I swear I will never let you go again. He fell forward onto her chest & slid down her body. He grabbed her around the waist & squeezed her into a bear hug. Now his sobs did come. Tingles danced up & down her spine, radiated outward along her back, & wrapped around her body. She felt love & happiness & relief. He had forgiven her. Her own tears slipped down her face & she hugged his head to her middle, loving the feel of him."The last quote was a long one but it left me blown away. Emma & Craig had such an intensified moment there that words cannot even express. Lisa Ladew if I ever meet u it will be an honor b/c ur characters have left me wanting so much more.