Review: A battle between your head and your heart!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
Four Letters by Lisa Harley is a story of four couples. Each story is different. Each couple is different. They all live in different areas of the country with totally different lifestyles. They all have one thing in common. A letter.I started this book not quite sure of what to expect. I knew there was this mystery letter that tied these couples together. I don't know if anyone else does this, but when a book starts with a mystery of some kind I make a general prediction in my mind of what the answer is. Part of the fun is seeing whether I was right as the mystery is revealed. With Four Letters, I am proud to say that I was right. The way I felt about the answer was what surprised me.I'll start with Skye and Sterling. They are rich. I mean loaded. Skye was from old money. She was spoiled, an only child of a loveless marriage. Her mother was a kind woman in a marriage arranged by her father to a shrewd, cold man. He wasn't cruel to her. He was just absent. She had everything she wanted but the love of her husband. Skye saw this growing up and swore she would never be like her mother. Then he met Sterling. He was breathtakingly handsome with an air of confidence that followed him. Skye finds something in Sterling that she has wanted by didn't know. A man to take care of her and allow her to let down her guard. They were perfect together, until a letter changed everything.Asher and Lilly were the sweet couple. Lilly was a kindergarten teacher content with her life. She had lost her parents early in life and just wanted someone to love her and make her feel safe. When she met Asher one day in the park, it was fate. They got married, bought a house in the suburbs and life was perfect. Until the letter arrived.Tanner and Adlee were really different than the other two couples. Adlee is a broken person. She has lived in hell at the hands of her stepfather for years. She gave up hope a long time ago. That is until Tanner, a long haul truck driver, walks into the diner where Adlee works. He saves her, takes her away from her horrible life, and helps her heal. Their's was the sweetest of all the stories. Until one day a letter arrived...I couldn't for the life of me figure out how the book was going to turn out. All of the couples had different stories. There was nothing to connect them. Why would they all receive the same letter that would change their lives forever. Then the common denominator was revealed. Wait until you read what that was!There is another story the synopsis didn't mention. It's the story of Daniel and Becca. They are in high school, live next door to each other, and are best friends. When Daniel's parents divorce, things change and they are separated when one goes to California for college and one heads to New York. You'll get more of their story throughout the book, but I can't tell you too much. They end up living together after college and remain best friends throughout the years.This is a difficult review because I can't even really tell you how I felt as I read the book. If I do, I will have to give away why I hated it in parts and loved it in others. Even when it made me so angry I wanted to strangle certain characters, I realized I really liked those characters. They were the same, yet different. Their personalities were totally different and their motives were honestly only to help. These characters knew they shouldn't do what they did, but they just couldn't stop. It was one of those times where I saw the inevitable coming, but I hoped it would turn out differently...knowing that there was only one way it could possibly end.So, I feel like I've told you nothing in this review. I loved the book. I couldn't put it down because I had to see what happened. I had to know what those damned letters said! Well, I got to read the letters at the end, and they actually made me glad Lisa waited until the end to give them to me. They eased my heart, and they soothed my sadness.