Review: Craving Absolution
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
'Our relationship was complicated, dragged through the mud too many times to be clean or wholesome.'You know a book is going to be amazing when you read the prologue and don't stop reading until the end. Seriously. I didn't stop. I couldn't even if I wanted to, so thank God I had already fed my kids dinner."I'm all in, Farrah."Ever since reading Craving Constellations (Book 1) I've been waiting for Cody 'Casper' Butler's story; something about his character just clicked for me and I needed his story.I.NEEDED.IT.I have no idea if these books are advertised as standalones or not but for the love of all things DO NOT READ THEM AS STANDALONES. Not only would you be seriously missing out, but you'd kick yourself afterwards.'Falling in with Cody was like playing with a fire...yet I continued to move closer and closer to the flames.'Cody leaves his life behind at Yale when his sister, Callie, is attacked in Craving Redemption (Book 2). He decides that the life that he was living isn’t the one that he really wants, so he becomes a prospect for the Aces MC. Ever since meeting her, Cody has always felt a pull toward his sister’s best friend, Farrah Miller, but it isn’t until he is shot trying to protect Brenna that he wakes the hell up and decides to fight for the woman he wants."You're so **cking afraid of your own shadow, you can't see what's right in front of you."The thing is, Farrah is used to people abandoning and giving up on her. At one of the lower points in her life Cody was there to support her, but she still can’t get over the long engrained worry that he will leave her like everyone else."I've always taken care of you, Farrah."There is something so pure and true about Nicole Jacquelyn’s writing style. It seems so effortless while you are reading it and you can’t help but be so fully absorbed into this world that she has created. There are moments when Farrah was dealing with memories in her past that YOU.FELT.THEM.You felt her sadness, her hate, her betrayal—every moment of grief she felt, you felt too. That’s why we love reading right? To feel the stories that we are reading."Haven't loved anyone more in my entire life, and that's the God's honest truth."I love how, after ALL of the obstacles, these characters all feel like their stories are complete in a way that you feel a sort of closure, but not really. I am more than happy with the conclusion of this series, however, I have a feeling that what is to come next will be one hell of a ride and I fully intend to enjoy every minute of it."I am in love with you," he said. "There is not one thing I wouldn't do for you. I'd kill for you. I'd die for you. No hesitation, no question..."