Review: Beautiful, I loved it..
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
I received a copy of this story from the author in exchange for an honest review.Phoebe Lane made me cry. She has written such a beautiful story, filled with laughter, compelling characters, heartbreaking sadness and wonderful joy, lovely relationships, love and life. I am blown away with how much I loved and adored this novel.Cursive is the story of Aislynn and Jace, and wow what a story. It starts with wonderful humor and a tad bit of questions. Aislynn and Jace have one of the sweetest relationships I have read in a very long time. From the first moment that they met on the pages, I knew I was in for a wonderful ride.Aislynn is a wonderfully multi-layered and compelling heroine. She is very broken but she has such an amazing strength about her. We get little hints that something very bad has happened to her and eventually we learn what that something is. I felt her sadness and her struggle to become better and deal with the personal demons in her life. It was beautifully dealt with and was resolved in a very nice way. Her humor was absolutely wonderful to read and I found myself laughing out loud multiple times.The Hero of our story Jace was completely adorable. I loved everything about him, his humor, his resiliency, his strength. I loved that he stuck by Aislynn thru all of her "crazy" (we all have "crazy", we just have to find someone who loves our "crazy") he was incredibly patient with her and when he decided to be all in, he meant it. Having  demons of his own, and a painful past, it was interesting to watch how he dealt with not only his own baggage but ultimately Aislynn's as well.Now let's talk about the secondary characters, Evan and Ellie, these two are awesome. *crossing my fingers that we get a story about them* Ellie is Aislynn's best friend and what a friend she is, I loved their relationship and it added to the story in such a perfect way. Evan was a great match for Ellie and a really good friend to both Jace and Aislynn.Aislynn's mother, Pam, was a nightmare. It was very sad reading the results of their fraying mother/daughter relationship but I thought that it was handled really well. It was a relief to meet Jace's family, they where amazing and I loved that they gave Aislynn what her mother never could, a family. They really just accepted her, supported her and embraced her as their own.I will admit that I guessed a piece of the puzzle to the twist of the overall story but it in no way made me enjoy the story any less and like I said I only guessed a piece of the puzzle and what Phoebe Lane did with it was both breathtaking and again, beautiful.Cursive was a beautiful look inside a deeply broken but strong individual and reading her fall in love with someone so completely perfect for her was an incredible thing.I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that loves reading contemporary romance novels and even if this genre isn't your normal go to genre, grab it and give it a try anyway. It is beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking and stunning. I loved every single thing about it.I will definitely be adding Phoebe Lane to my favorites list and will be tuning in with bated breath for her next novel.Originally posted on Me, Myself and Books Blog