Review: Honest review given
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
This is a different kind of book. If you are looking for a hot erotic romance filled with lots of sweaty bodies, then you need to look elsewhere. This is not that kind of book. If, on the other hand, you want a suspenseful book about a girl running from horror and discovering a reason to live again, then this book may be right up your alley.It features Mia, a 19 year old girl who is on the run for shooting her father. You see her father was a scumbag who deserved to be shot. Her mother abandoned them when Mia was only 5 years old. Her father soon spiraled down into the world of addiction, eventually forcing his own daughter to become a drug courier for his drug dealer in exchange for free drugs for himself. After all, who would suspect an 8 year old girl of carrying around drugs in her pink backpack?Mia continued to do this for her father, always holding out hope that he might eventually clean himself up. But it turns out good old dad had other plans. When he told Mia that delivering drugs was no longer enough, and that he and his dealer had other ways for her to earn them money, ways that involved being on her back, Mia finally had had enough and snapped. She left him bleeding to death on the floor.When Mia left town she had no real plan, except to get away and somehow find her mother. She got as far as a little town called South Boston. It is here she creates a new identity and slowly begins meeting new people, people who actually care for her and want nothing out of her in return. These people include Tabitha, Quinn, Tristan, and Hank.Hank becomes the fatherly figure her own father never was. He gives Mia a job and a place to live, plus he gives her hope that there are still good people left in this world. Mia had never had a best friend before, but Tabitha's bubbly and friendly personality was just the thing to open Mia up to the idea of friendship. I simply loved Tabitha, and I'm sure you will too.Tristan is the good looking hunk who runs the local diner and gives Mia her first real job waiting tables. She really likes him and is attracted to him in ways she doesn't quite understand, but it isn't until she meets Quinn that these feelings go into hyperdrive. Quinn is a hot sexy guy who knows immediately there is something different about this new girl in town. He can tell she has secrets, but Quinn has a few secrets of his own.The two of them are attracted to each other, but Mia knows nothing can come of it. She knows her past will catch up with her eventually and she really cannot afford to get that close to anyone.I have to say that the writing is stellar in this book. The characters are incredibly well drawn. I found myself loving Tabitha, Hank and Tristan like they were real people and real friends of mine. I felt everything Mia felt like it was myself. I wanted her to be able to leave her past behind and start off fresh with these new people, but of course our past always has a way of finding us.I have to admit that the book ends on an unfortunate cliffhanger. I really look forward to the continuation of this story. I want Mia and Quinn to have their happy ending. Pickup this book if you want to lose yourself in a good story about personal survival and rediscovering the good in humanity.