Review: Blake will make his way into your heart....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
I am going to be completely honest with you and say that at about half way I was getting nervous because everything was setting up to be a great big cliché. I knew what direction everything was headed in and I was disappointed. I didn't want to get connected to these characters just to be completely turned off by a very unoriginal story line.Thank goodness that didn't completely happen and Grace Henderson knows how to add some twist to her plot. I was so sure that I knew exactly where this story was going that when I finally got all of the story I was surprised. The story that I got was not one that had crossed my mind in trying to figure Blake out. I suppose in hind sight I can see how I could have come to that conclusion but I didn't, and Grace Henderson accomplished the element of surprise.If Blake's intention was to come of as an arrogant a**hole then mission accomplished. And apparently this is a very well known fact because nearly everyone in town keeps telling Cassie that she can do better. That she needs to stay away from Blake.  Even her grandmother has warned her away from Blake. She could understand them saying these things if Blake actual acted the way they claim he does, but with her, he is sweet. He is different.Blake shows great effort in changing from the man he used to be into the man he wants to be for Cassie. And he is a great man, he makes it easy to forget about the secret he is keeping from her.  A secret that he refuses to share. Cassie has no idea what the secret is or what it is about, and it creates distance between them. No matter how much Blake would like for this secret to not matter, it does. No matter how much he wishes he could forget his past, he can't.He selfishly holds onto Cassie, avoiding the truth. Cassie has become so much more important than he thought possible and he wants to hold onto her for as long as he can.Oh Blake, I wish you would just tell us what it is. Please, it can't be all that bad can it? It couldn't possible be what I think it is, is it? You may give off this impression of being a selfish bastard but I know the truth. You are sweet and caring and amazing. Please, just tell me...By the end of this book Blake had made his way into my heart. The secret that he kept only helped me to love him more. I was so relieved that everything played out differently than what I had in my head. In a way, I think the secret brought Cassie and Blake closer together, they just had to get through some stuff to get there. I loved getting to hang out with Cassie and Blake, and I love them together.I wish I could get more of them, I feel like there is still so much to their story that can be told. If there was ever another book that featured Cassie and Blake I would be one of the first in line to read it.It looks as though there will be a second book in the series that tells the story of Cassie's best friend Laurel. It would be awesome to get to see Cassie and Blake too.