Review: 5 hold my heart stars, a beautiful and simple, yet deep and touching love story.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
5 hold my heart stars I loved this. I might be clutching my heart right now because it’s so happy. Nowhere but Here is a beautiful love story. So simple, but yet so full of depth. Ms. Carlino writes words that are music to my soul…I’m telling you, the words just resonated and touched me deeply. I have read Sweet Thing and now Nowhere but Here and I know this: Renee Carlino’s writing style is absolutely beautiful.So many stories are told in dual POVs these days, and while I certainly love it, it was nice to only be in Kate’s head here. But don’t let that fool you, we still got to know Jamie pretty well because of all his interaction with Kate. He was so deliciously (and shamelessly) open with how he felt about her that it was impossible to not feel like I didn’t know him, not to feel like I didn’t want him too…he was infectious.One of the million reasons I adored this story so much was because I fell in love with both of the main characters: Kate and Jamie. Kate was in a funk and had some issues with finding direction in her life, which made her to waver back and forth a little more than I personally every would have, but still, the author wrote her in a way that made it so that I still always felt like I was in her shoes. I really became her. I loved her spontaneity, and the times when she threw caution to the wind and went with her gut feelings to make decisions it was glorious. Jamie was so amazing the entire time and the only sad part is that I wish someone like him were actually real.I don’t always mention the setting, but here, the Napa setting was amazing. All of  a sudden all I want to do is go to a winery and have a sexy glass of Pinot Noir and go swimming and get whipped cream…and yeah. all that. ;)So the story was perfect and even though many things were predictable (to me at least),  it didn’t matter because it was told in such a way that made it impossible for me to put the book down. Of course the perfect story had the prefect ending… and then there was the the epilogue, yes, perfect again and be still my heart. The romance in this book is off the charts!I would rec this a million times over. It will touch you, make you fall in love, and remind you of what’s precious. Perfection!