Review: Holy Smokes...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
Spoiler Alerts---So this read had me on a rollercoaster of emotions... I didn't know if I wanted to be happy, sad, angry or just plain confused. I was left in a state of shock in some parts and in others I just felt like smacking one of the characters.Nate and Liv had a powerful love when they met while in university. Everything was going amazing Liv had a career and then Nate gets offered an amazing job in another country and has to leave Liv. Little did Nate know was that Liv was  pregnant and she was about to tell him when he sprung his "amazing" news on her. Rather than ruin his dreams she withheld the little secret and told him to follow his dreams. First and foremost if you are with someone for 3 years and love them so deeply why not take them with you? Anyways so they make plans to have a long distance relationship and to try and meet up once a month or so.Somewhere along the way that never happened and many years pass (20 to be exact). Liv is now divorced with 3 children starting a new job and a new start in life. Little does she know her past will soon be coming back. One day while coming in late for work she runs into Nate (or should I say his crotch) and its like fireworks all over again.While reading I kept getting upset with Nate's character because I get he was very self centered. Liv tried to keep in touch with him when he first went away sending him letters and calling him and even travelled to see him but he never responded back or called. He didn't even tell her he moved so when she went to visit his place was empty. For all the love he claimed he had for her, telling her she was the love of his life he sure had a twisted way of showing it. Liv being depressed and lonely met James and married him which was the worst mistake of her life. He abused her, beat her raped her and almost killed her. Ten years of her life she went through torture. And what was Nate doing... Being a man hoe sleeping around with anything that had legs. What was most sad was that Liv would picture all her happy thoughts and memories of Nate to get her through each rape from her husband, each beating and each heartache.Now back to Nate and Liv... He gets very upset with Liv for my telling him about Jay their son which left me livid because hello he cut all ties with her when they were young and he left to follow his dream. I was upset how it was made to seem like it was Liv's fault which it was not. There were other things that bugged me about Nate like he kept trying to take Liv places he had sexual encounters with other women or how he let his ex work at his company and would let her openly flirt with him while Liv was right there. As a matter of fact he let all women do that... Ugh...I Hate reading books that leave me so confused because it makes me feel like I totally missed something. I really hope there will be more to Nate and Liv in a secondary book so I can get over this funk!