Review: WOW What a way to make a debut!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2013
"If someone has the ability to make you glow in the darkness, they must be remarkable. That does not mean there is something wrong with you. It means there is something right."I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of this book and I absolutely could not wait to read it after talking with J.L. Brooks. I also cannot believe this is her first book, AMAZING!! She is beyond talented and I am so glad she is sharing her gift with the reading world."Everyone who enters your life is there for one of two reasons. To bring you closer to the person you can be, or distract you from fulfilling that potential."This book starts by us meeting a young Violet, a girl trying to find herself. We learn she has two loves belly dancing and a man, Connor Lewis. Connor was a first love, a love that left her scarred. We are then moved to a Violet now doing research for the University of Cincinnati, but soon Violet's world is turned upside when her role model, Dr. Robertson, puts her in a situation and then is gone, stay with me because we are about to meet Shepard. Shepard comes on the scene and let us just say this man is not only HOT but he heals Violet, we watch them fall in love and we watch Violet give herself to him and not going to lie I did the same."I wanted to stay suspended in this bubble with Shepard,"I was in a happy place everything was perfect and then it happened, you know what, accidents, distractions and Violet is forced into a decision."With a laugh, I managed to sob out, "why does crying have to be so ugly?"You know that moment when you are saying oh holy hell, there is the emotional whiplash I love so much in a book. Now we are watching Violet accept an award and her life is on track but oh what is that, oh yes a distraction, she gets a phone call. One that pulls her back to Colorado and back to face old wounds and of course once she starts to pick at the wound she comes face to face with the one man she never wanted to see again."Connor and I were two tornados. Bound to destroy everything in our path. Separating us was the only hope they had for me: coming out of that in one piece."Well Hello Connor aren't you beautiful and broken and HOT and I forgive you. Wait this is Violet's story not mine. But we watch Connor and we become memorized, we watch him try for forgiveness. We watch him being what Violet needs. Connor made me feel every emotion possible I was in love, I hated him, I cried over him, I wanted to shake him, I wanted to hug him and I wanted to experience him. DAMN THAT BEAUTIFUL MAN."If insanity meant living in a world where I got to feel like this every moment, I would gladly embrace it."Violet is then handed yet another decision, her and these damn decisions but this is the one that brings the book almost full circle. The one that brings us back to my first love remember Shepard. One word PERFECTION seriously the man is perfect. Beautiful, smart, honest, awkward, make love to me NOW Shepard."He was striking no....he was gorgeous."This book was everything and more, it grabs your attention from the beginning and it takes you on ride that doesn't stop until the last sentence and JL made sure she left you feeling so complete. She had me so connected with these characters when I was done I wanted to hug her for the experience.All I can say is . . ."I cannot promise you that it is going to be easy, but only that it will be worth it."