Review: Good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2013
This was a different story.  Kelsey was in a relationship with Jake.  His parents didn't approve because Kelsey's Black. Jake and his best friend Ryan get deployed and Jake is killed in battle.  Ryan is devastated because he feels a lot of guilt, he misses Ryan, and is experiencing some PTSD. The difference is that Ryan had never been interested in Kelsey.  He had actually been dismayed when Jake dumped his pretty blond girlfriend to pursue Kelsey.  But after Jake's death, Ryan and Kelsey talk to each other as a way of dealing with the loss of someone they both loved.  In this way they get to know one another.  I really liked to see how the relationship developed.  You don't often see that in these interracial novels.  Usually the two characters are instantly hot for one another and there are filler words leading up to some hot sex scene.  In this story, the two were never interested in one another before Jake's death.  They weren't enemies either.  They got to know one another later and a romantic relationship developed from that.  There was also development as far as the relationship between Kelsey and Jake's mother.  It's good to see multi-dimensional characters.