Review: 5 Star review on overcoming everything you thought you had to be.....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
**ARC**This story was a tough story for me to get through. It took us through Kates life as she was dealing with the loss of her husband Paul, who she felt as if she murdered. She wasted away daily on Johnny Walker and sleeping pills. The only thing that seemed to bring her out of her buzz was her daughter Ella.This book is a continuation of Precise where we meet Kates and her husband Paul, Liam who is their best friend, and Kates mom Rochelle, who is nothing but a controlling, vindictive woman that treats Kates like she is the scum on the bottom of her shoe.In Pulling Me Under, Rochelle is still controlling but not as bad as she was in the first book. Kates feels as if her mom is trying everything she can to take Ella away from her so that she can tell Kates she is a bad mother. No matter what Kates does though, she cannot seem to make the nightmares of that fatal day go away. So she has turned to drinking and taking pills to get the images and smell out of her head.Rochelle is having a birthday party and while there she confronts her daughter about her actions and what it is doing not only to her but to Ella as well. Kate winds up running out the door, which is what she has turned to in her life (running away). She winds up at a party that Liam’s older brother Brent is at, and stays with him and his friends. While there she blacks out and wakes up in an unknown bed and the events of the night before are all a haze.When Liam confronts her about her issues and tells her about his feelings he has had for her, she tries running again. Liam is not having this at all. He helps her deal with the trauma of losing Paul and she finally starts to remember things that happened that night at the party.When confronting the man who she believes hurt her that night, she is shocked and surprised with who the real person behind that fuzzy night is. Will she ever be able to surface to the top and trust anyone in her life again or will everyday events keep pulling her under, suffocating her until there is no more?