Review: Absolutely beautiful!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
****4.5 stars****So, this was one of those books that had me pretty much glued to my iPad from the moment I started it.  The type of story that gets under your skin and just keeps you entirely engrossed in it until you hit that last page.  That’s what Timber and Kat’s story did to me, with their shattered souls that called out to each other and the beautiful thing they became together.  Kat, once the meek and teased mouse of a girl, had made it through her trials in life and came out the other side an ink-covered fighter worthy of her happy ending.  And Timber had seen hell and barely scraped himself off the floor to carry on, but he was making it…barely.When we first meet Kat, she was literally like a scared kitten who was in desperate need of being protected.  I felt so awful for her, but when her little claws came out at Timber, I just loved the glimpse of the tiger that was waiting to take over.  And did it ever, because fast-forward a few years down the road and damn!  Covered in tattoos with the attitude to match, she wasn’t taking crap from anyone.  But she wasn’t just this hardened, unfeeling victim.  With time and her growing up had come an inner strength that kind of just boosted her already admirable personality, and it showed through the friends she had that would literally do anything to protect her.  Timber stumbled upon that, and the tense moments they shared trying to figure each other out all those years later were great.  But regardless of the bitterness Kat felt toward Timber, these two were like an oil-slicked match just waiting to light up and burn like an inferno, because the chemistry was crazy intense!  We are graced with Timber’s point of view as well as Kat’s, which was truly a gift what with his filthy mind that I LOVED!Let me just say that Timber broke my heart with this story.  I don’t usually connect on a personal level with war-zone stories all that well, but as Timber had flashbacks of his time with his ‘brothers’ in Iraq, I loved these scenes for how vivid and real they seemed.  I think getting to see his memories of the simple moments they had together, just being guys, made it easier to feel drawn to their story.  Timber had lost a huge part of himself on that fateful day that haunts him, and it was so crushing as he relived it and every moment he had with those men.  It was hard to not tear up, because Stacy Borel just tears open your heart as Timber falls farther and father over everything he’s lost.  It was beautifully torturous, and Kat became a heroine to remember for me as she gave her everything to pull him through.  She had been through her own hell, and was still facing it, but she pushed that aside for Timber.  Love this girl!!  They were just the perfect broken couple pulling each other up from the ashes, it was awesome!Touching Scars is a story that will be on many readers’ favorites list for sure, and I can’t recommend it strongly enough.  With characters that will easily worm their way into your heart, a romance that will break you and lift you back up time and time again, and smexy moments that will leave you panting, it’s one that is not to be missed!Quotes:He saw tears glistening in her eyes. “Change.”“What?” Timber wanted to reach out to her and tell her not to cry, but it seemed like a completely illogical thing to do.“If you’re so different from them, then change.  Stop being the guy on the side that accepts the mean things those guys say to people like me. Do something about it.  Then maybe your apology will start to mean something.” ~Loc 116She’s the kind of sweet that you ache for with every taste.  She’s the type that you want forever. ~Loc 737When had I crossed the line of liking him to something deeper? I didn’t know if I loved him, but if there’s an in-between, that’s where I was at. ~Loc 2022Kat was someone I was falling in love with. It wasn’t a fleeting feeling that came and went.  She gave me a new sense of purpose. It went above and beyond any hero mentality I’d taken on.  She made life worth living.  I wanted to heal her like she was healing me. ~Loc 2546