Review: A truly well written, well rounded story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
I have just finished reading this awesome story.I just had to email the author to let her know just how much I enjoyed this book. I help out on a lot of blog tours as I love helping authors to advertise their books, and my little bit might just help, who knows, but I try :) so often get books offered for reading and reviewing but I select mostly not to read as I have a pretty hefty pile. I am so glad I offered to read this and review it. I am a bit fussy yes in what I accept to read and I am so glad that I saw this one.I have 270 books this year so far and this one made 271. I can honestly say this one will stick with me.We have Frankie. She is a musician. She's has an older sister, and another sister. One of the sisters has a dependency on alcohol and drugs. She sees this destroying her sister and four years ago choose to turn her back on her, only now, four years later, she gets a call from her older sister to say that the sister has now died from an OD. As much as she tries to make it feel and sound like she dealt with it four years ago you see and feel through the pages Frankie's hurt, emotions and yes.....her guilt.When they were young they had a friend, his name was Topher [who now wants to be known as Chris] but to Frankie, he will always be Topher.They come face to face at a funeral, the funeral of Frankie's sister and Topher's friend, excpet Topher has been in the war and he had a terrible thing happen which affects his memory among other things.This is a story of grief, regrets, emotions, blame, guilt, and equal to that, do they both deserve to heal? Can they heal?It was beautifully written, it flowed so right, from one section to the other.It was told from Topher's POV and then Frankie's, I don't usually like books like that which give sections of POV'S it normally annoys me as it seems repitative and a waste of time, but Cristy Rey had it perfectly balanced.I loved it, and I am looking forward to reading more from this author