Review: Breathtaking and Heartbreaking!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
Like Completely Wrecked, The Hermit is almost a *pure* romance novel with zero explicit content. There is a love scene towards the end of the book, but rather than being hot and steamy, it adds on to the beauty and fragility of the story and shows just how far Daphne has come and healed since her terrible ordeal. Despite being such a short book, the amount of depth and emotions placed in the book is just breathtaking.Once again, I absolutely love how Shayne captures and moulds her characters in ways that we can't help but love and feel for them as well. The Hermit is a beautiful, heartbreaking and emotional story. The abuse Daphne had been through was told in its raw gritty truth and wasn't romanticized or made light of. I just love how she subtly gets you thinking and in a way "educates" you through her stories.Daphne may have been through 2 years in a place worse than hell. But she made it out alive. She may be broken but she is a fighter. She didn't break down in tears, hid herself from the world. She fought to get better and that's what I love about her.What I loved about Ryan was that he was her rock through her journey to recovery. He never tried to fix her, nor look at her with unneeded sympathy. He knows that she will heal, that she's a fighter but the things that happened would never just go away. I love how he puts her first. His unconditional love, his patience and his protectiveness are all so so beautiful despite his own horrors that forced him into being a hermit.