Review: Incredible second novel by an incredible Author!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
Let's start this party off by saying WOW!  Tamsyn has blown me away again.  I had the pleasure of reading Beneath Your Beautiful a few months ago and now she's got her new release out and I am once again blessed to read her work.  This book was incredible.Hayley Tanner is 17 when the story begins.  She's in her last year of high school when she attends a party and throws caution to the wind and sleeps with the one guy everyone wants to be with.  Like all the guys she has been with, she gets up, gets dressed and says there is no reason to make more of it than it was.  Unlike most guys she has slept with, she threw caution to the wind in the heat of the moment and had unprotected sex.  Two year later, we're in the present with Hayley and her daughter Arianna (Ari for short).  Hayley at 19 has grown into a very loving mother and for two years has put her daughter above her own needs and has fled her old life and abstained from any and all sexual activity.Cameron Argent is 21, an amazing swimmer and also one of the biggest playboys on campus.  He's got his whole life ahead of himself.  He's sick of the girl he's been "seeing" if you can call it that.  Rachel is more of a play thing than a girlfriend and he only keeps her around for his physical pleasure and rarely tends to her needs and does it with a clean conscience.  That is until he meets a beautiful brunette girl in need of assistance outside his nephew's daycare.Hayley and Cameron have the kind of relationship that I would liken to Abby and Travis Maddox.  Hayley plays coy and hard to get because she has to think about her little girl above all else.  She's not going to fall for the playboy who will inevitably break her heart.  But in the end, sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and live a little.  This is where the book got really good and really frustrating.  I wanted to punch Cam in the face so many times and was having fits over how he reacts to finding out she has a daughter.  Then later I was in utter and complete despair as their story progressed.  I felt each emotion like it was my own and that is the mark of a truly great story teller.  The way Cam grows as a person throughout the story is remarkable and heartwarming.  Tamsyn, my hats off to you sweetheart, absolutely fantastic read and I can't wait for your next exceptional story!