Review: Favorite book by this author so far!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
FIVE starsJessica Sorensen is a master at creating broken characters, struggling with addiction and abuse, drawing us into their world, and making us fall in love with them. The Temptation of Lila and Ethan is the third installment in the Secret of Ella and Micha series, but in this book we take a break from Ella and Micha's story to get caught up with Lila and Ethan. Micha and Ella play minor rolls in this book, as this story is all for Lila and Ethan. And dare I say it, this might be my favorite Jessica Sorensen book to date!The dynamic between Lila and Ethan is perfect, in my opinion. For myself, as a reader, if I could handpick all of the different components to make up the perfect storyline, the perfect characters the perfect relationship, it would be all the things that Jessica Sorensen crafted together to create the story of Lila and Ethan. They are bothdamaged in terrible ways. Their families,years of abuse and neglect, their respective addictions, and their histories of what they believed was lovein past relationships all come together and erupt into this explosive, life altering would-be relationship.They have been friends for some time, in a purely platonic nature, but seem to always be what the other needs. It's almost the classic case of what you really want being right under your nose. Except these character's problems take the forefront of their lives, and of this story, making a happy ending seem impossible. But love blooming from friendship is one of my favorite themes in stories and this author created a masterpiece out of this one. Magnets pushing and pulling, these two people are never quite on the same page.... which of course leads to an angsty heart-wrenching story full of sexual tension and romance. But it's funny and sweet at the same time.I can't fairly describe everything I loved about these characters and their story without giving away spoilers. So I won't. I'll tell you that you need to read this book. Do you remember the scene from Ghost where Patrick and Demi have an interesting take on pottery? Well, you need to read this story for no other reason than when Ethan teaches Lila how to play the drums! This story is perfect and beautiful and sad, and I loved every bit of it.