Review: Good story, but lots of grammatical errors
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
I received this as a freebie thru the bookbub.com email.  I'm glad I didn't pay for it.  Overall the story was good. I liked that it was a longer story than most of the ones I've read lately, it gave it ample time for the characters to develop.I didn't care for all the POV's....especially when your first introduced to Sterling and Sawyer (I was totally confused, had to re-read the first few pages of that chapter several times).Another annoying thing: an overuse of the author trying to get her point across  I.e....  I'm.trying.to.tell.you.this.gets.old.  etc.  I just think that there are more crafty ways to accomplish the feelings that your trying to convey.MAIN CHARACTERS:Colton: pathetic boyfriend of Victoria, he is controlling, inconsiderate, and somewhat of a big jerk.  It is clear thru several parts of this story that he thinks of women as objects, or things that can be controlled. He makes some big threats, but then just falls off the planet it seems.  No closure to him at all.Victoria: the poor girl trapped in a world where she tries to make everyone happy, all the while sacrificing her happiness. While helping Colton thru a crisis she meets a man who turns her whole world around...and makes her grow as a person as well.Sterling:  Coltons cousin, brother of Sawyer, and the whipping post for his abusive father, who is the ultimate jerk.  Sterling has always saved his younger brother from their fathers wrath, but we soon find out that his whole life has left him broken, and hooked on some bad stuff.  What he doesn't plan on doing is escaping not only with himself, but with Victoria "Phoenix" in tow.SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:Olivia: mom, the snarky doctor that is clearly way better than anyone else.  Didn't care for her at all.  Only towards the end of the book does her heart unthaw a bit.Charlotte: former addict, now mentor.  She was a little religious, but, maybe that is something that's common with recovering addicts....I personally haven't spent much time around one.Sawyer: sterling's younger brother, and possible love interest of Starr.  He doesn't have many parts in this book, so I'm left with not much of an opinion of him.Starr: another former addict, sterling's friend and ex drug partner/lover...not sure what you would call that.  Again, not many parts with her, just a couple weird chapters.As I said before, story was good, however, there are quite a few areas that have horrible grammatical errors, and wrong words that make some sentences really hard to read.  It took several passes rereading what I hoped was what the author originally intended.