Review: Well, I liked it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
A very beautiful love story that is a steal at .99!!!  I have not read a Rebecca Yarros story before, but she can really create a correct proportion of angst and HEA.  I was captivated (and crying) from the first chapter when Ember family is told their father died over seas.  I envied her having the gorgeous Josh Walker to lean on and who was perfect in every way a fictional hero can be.  He was PERFECT – literally.December or Ember as she was nicknamed had to hold her family together for a while after her father was killed in Afghanistan.  Her mother “checked out” for a while and her boyfriend cheated on her with her best friend and roommate.  Having always relied on a “plan” for her life, she is seriously blown off course and is caught by the once bad boy/manwhore now totally devoted, Josh Walker, hockey player extraordinaire.  Ember had a crush on Josh since she was 15 years old and can’t believe he is showing interest in her now that she is 20 years old.  Flattered and totally smitten, she nevertheless rebuffs his desire to date her, knowing she is not in a good place and that he didn’t deserve the mess of her life.Josh Walker’s life has not been as blessed as some would think as his mother struggled with cancer and his scholarship to play hockey at the higher level was inadequate, making him have to go to a college with a less talented team.  Having been blessed with great looks, he has never lacked for female attention, but never encountered the lasting type until Ember walked back into his life serendipitously on the day of her father’s death.  He knew what she needed and he knew he needed her.  He was not going to give up no matter how hard she tried to push him away.There was some profanity (f-word) some descriptive foreplay and sex, drinking.I really enjoyed this story, although I have to admit the drawn out ending where Ember was pushing love away was a little ridiculous and turned into the clichéd ending of rushing to fix a wrong.  Predictable, and yet I still was smiling as it unfolded.Would I/Did I buy it? Yes (.99)Would I read it again?  YesWould I recommend it to friends? Yes