Review: heart felt novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
This novel is about a woman who was suppose to marry the love of her life but on the night before their wedding she heard him saying something that made her walked away believing he meant every word even if in reality he doesn’t. After ten years, circumstances brought them back together making her face the consequence of her actions years ago and the wrath he might bestow on her once he find her secret.If there’s one flaw to this novel, it is having a common plot. It lacks the element of surprise that made most novel exciting and the readers looking forward to what the next page awaits. However, even though I have read about a hundred of this kind of novel, and even though I have an inkling of how the story will progress and end, I find this novel refreshing for the following reasons…First, in this day and age where erotic romance seems to be the mainstream of romance literature, it’s nice to read about stories like this where you get to see or take a second look at what love is about. This book tells about the kind of love that took time to bloom and as well as feelings that have stood the test of time. It’s like an adult fairy tale. The kind of goes happily ever after surviving the realities of life.Second, the writer has a way with words. Emotions are something that are not easily put into words. Yet, despite the common plot, the author have manage to dress it with raw emotions that one that you can feel piercing into your heart just by reading them. And that was what made the book so hard to put down even if you can guess what will happen next. I may have read a hundred of stories like this, but I definitely didn’t feel all the emotions I have felt in this novel a hundred times. Only few authors can make me feel that way which made me think that having the emotions by the characters be felt by the readers deep within is actually a gift. Something that you either have or you don’t. And Cheryl Douglas definitely have that gift.Next is the hero Zach. I love how his feelings were very apparent from the beginning till the end. In romance novels like this, the hero are usually the latter to define their feelings for the heroine. But Zach here was not like that which made him an endearing book boyfriend material.And since this is a series, it makes you curious about all the characters aside from Zach and Rennie. The author have manage to squeeze really interesting characters other than the main ones that will have you looking forward to the next book.Copy provided in exchange for honest review.