Review: Full Measures is an emotional journey about love, loss and the hearts ability to heal.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
Full Measures is an emotional journey about love, loss and the hearts ability to heal.From the opening page, I was hooked...  By page six my heart was breaking.  I felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster but oh what a ride. Get your tissues ready!It started with a knock that forever altered their lives.The Howard Family is struggling with the loss of their father who was killed while serving in Afghanistan as a surgeon in the Army.December (Ember) is the oldest home from college on break trying to pick of the pieces of this shattered family. Mrs. Howard is catatonic, her sister April is out of control and her brother Gus is only seven.Ember's life is falling apart from the death of her father to her boyfriends betrayal all she needs is a sexy hockey playing, motorcycle driving, tattooed bottle of yumminess in the mix.  ~ Enter Josh Walker her brother's hockey coach, and high school crush.Josh Walker changed since his mother got sick and he lost his scholarship to play hockey.  Three years older than Ember he's always felt unworthy of her.  She was innocent and unattainable in his eyes not the type he usually went after. When he runs into her at the grocery store and watches her fall apart he knows he can't stay away."No, I wouldn't be happier.  Do you know what would make me happy?  I would like to go back to bed, and for none of this to have happened.  I don't want to be standing in the middle of this grocery store, buying a stupid cake so my little brother can pretend that our dad isn't dead! So, no, I don't care what kind of cake it is, Ninja Turtles or Barbie or Sponge Bob freaking Square Pants!"Josh wants December.  December doesn't want Josh's but she needs him. She's attracted to him beyond belief and every time she's near him she lets her guard down.  I loved the chemistry between Ember and Josh.  The way their relationship developed over the course of the book was nothing short of breathtaking."Please fight for this Ember.  We are worth the fight.  I love you, and that's something I've never said to any girl.  I love you more than hockey, or air I breathe.  You love me, too!"Secrets are kept, hearts are shattered and promises broken.In the end is love really enough?I absolutely loved this book. It was a sweet emotional read with a little steamy in-between.  I highly recommend it!