Review: Beautiful story of forgiveness, redemption, family, life, love.  It has a little bit of everything!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2014
TRISTAN!!I'm so in love right now.  I usually don't get too worked up over these leading men but Tristan has wormed his cynical, arrogant little self right on in.  Never have I been so appalled at male behavior.  Not surprised, no....but appalled.  Tristan is not sorry for how he treats women and in some twisted way I found myself agreeing with him most of the time.  I found myself smiling at his antics and quips more than I was frowning at his behavior.Maybe I should start over.  This is my review of Can't Go Without book two in the Oasis Waterfall series by Angelisa Stone.  Book one was Can't Go Home.  Another really good story and book one in the series.  I thought it would be my favorite buy nope.  Tristan has won over my heart.  Angelisa has won over my brain.  She's such a good story teller.  Such a good writer.  You start reading and before you know it the story is done.  Her writing is so real to me.  So normal and down to earth.  She doesn't really sugar coat anything.  She doesn't trick you into thinking that love is all rainbows and unicorns.  She writes stories that are believable.  Well...believable in that the people in her stories act like real people.Sigh....am I making sense?Okay Tristan and Leah have a dirty past.  Dirty as in not good.  In fact it's changed both of them.  Again in a bad way.  Both of them already had some baggage.  Tristan didn't quite realize what his was.  Not right away.  Leah on the other hand, well I think she knew that most of her baggage had to to with her mother's death.  The impact that kind of loss has on a child is incomparable in my opinion.  Sometimes bad things have to happen before we can come out on the other side.  Before we can be a better person and before we can see what life is really about.I'm not going to get into the details of the story though.  That's not fair to the reader.  What I will say is that there is such a wonderful, heart felt story here.  A story of family what a family really is.  Sometimes it's not traditional and that's okay.  A family doesn't have to be bound by blood.  A family can be comprised of both relatives and friends.  This is  also a story about forgiveness and love and even redemption.  The characters in both of these books are so important to one another and even to the reader.  There is no way you can read these books and not feel like a part of this growing family.  Sometimes we have to put our faith in things we can't see.  We have to have hope that in the grand scheme of things we're able to find our right path.Watching Tristan and Leah in this story as they navigated through life trying to figure it out was truly endearing and special.I can't wait to see what Angelisa has in store for us next in the Oasis Waterfall series.  WOW I'm assuming there will be a third book!!  Hoping, praying, longing, assuming...that about sums it up.  I really hope you take a chance on this book and this author.  She really is that good!*A copy of this book was kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review*