Review: What a rollercoaster!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2013
Holy Freakin' H**l! What a total angst-fest! It was enough to make me want to pull my hair out and smash my kindle and made me stay up til almost 2 am when I have to get up for work at 5 am. Bad Bad Shanora!This is the sequel to Hard to Resist and it takes place a few months after the separation of Nolan and Natalie in book one when Nolan went back to California to take care of his mom. Nolan and Nat have been apart but were doing okay, until Nolan goes through a traumatic event and Nat tries to be there for him. But now the tables are turned and Nolan is depressed, and closed off and it is Nat's turn to try to reach him.I don't want to hurt you, Bunny...I need space right now. I can't deal with anyone's emotions outside of my own.Nolan picked me up after being hurt once before but this has just crushed me completely. My heart is bursting and the pieces are scattering throughout my entire body.This begins a roller coaster of miscommunication, running away, avoidance, jealousy, trouble from outside influences, fear, anger, and insecurity. It put me through the wringer! I was seriously angry at at least one characters in every part of the book! First Nolan, then Nat, then Nolan, then Tyler(the new guy), then Sharon(the ex, then Nat, and so on. Nolan and Nat drove me crazy! They just had such a hard time getting back on the same page and they have a tendency to make rash decisions, pass quick judgments, and allow insecurities to interfere. Their pasts still haunt them and have an effect on their present relationship. It was emotional whiplash with them going back and forth so much. But again, I still felt like they needed to be together."We're not ending, Natalie. I don't care what I have to do to keep you, I will. I don't care what I have to go through to keep you with me. You're mine."There were people trying to keep them apart and friends trying to help keep them together. But through it all, I still felt that they truly loved each other, had something special, and belonged together. And they still have very hot chemistry and steamy encounters. Even though their communication skills are still seriously lacking and they both make poor choices. It was a really rough road for them.I loved getting to see more of Harper and Dawson...it was great to see how their relationship is developing. And we were given more insight into his brother Mills in this story. I grew to like him more than I did in the first book.. There are two new characters that seriously needed to get their butts kicked. Tyler is a new guy that Nat meets at school. He seems too good to be true. And Nolan's ex Sharon cannot seem to keep her nose out of their business. Like they did not already have enough drama going on already. And there are some twists and turns that make you keep flipping pages.We get both Nolan and Nat's POV so you feel the heartache, the fear, the loss, the anger, the insecurity all first hand. Finally, things seem to be calming down in Nolan and Nat's world and we can breathe a little bit. Will it all be too little too late? In the end will they find it harder to hold on or harder to just let go?Looking forward to another book in the series featuring more from Harper and Dawson.Thanks to Shanora Williams for providing me with a review copy in exchange for an honest review.