Review: 4.5 out of 5 Stars for this refreshing and thrilling debut
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
*** ARC received in exchange for an honest review ***Josie Banks"Since she was fourteen years old, Josie Banks had existed that way. She floated on whatever high she could get, reluctant to touch down, afraid reality might never let her go again.""Her savior wasn't always drugs or sex with strangers. Sometimes her pencils, along with fresh paper and a silent room, could deliver the much needed feeling of ecstasy."Tristan Fallbrook"‎Tristan Fallbrook was complicated and just barely a man. At the ripe old age of twenty-two, he'd suffered heartache, seen his fair share of violence and thrived as a professional criminal."Josie Banks doesn't remember anything about her life before a traumatic event when she was fourteen, which left her with amnesia. From then on, she was shipped from one foster home to another, until she finally faces life out on the streets after ‎turning 18.That is until she meets Tristan Fallbrooks. The two of them share an immediate attraction, and soon Tristan finds out that Josie is in fact his long lost childhood sweetheart, which he thought dead. Both of them patch each other up but soon their past comes back to haunt them, and not only because Josie now has Tristan to educate her on who she was before she turned 14...I really enjoyed Beautiful Addictions as a very well-written and gripping novel. What I thought would start off as a sappy love story in a Saving Quinton style (including broken souls, drugs, sex, drawings and tattoos)‎, quickly turned into a new-adult thriller of the best sorts. All you need is to get over the fact that Josie and Tristan get together so quickly within the beginning of the book, (and the huge coincidence their finding back together represents) but that detail is quickly forgotten.Beautiful Addiction is certainly a refreshing change in both style and story. It is written from a 3rd person POV, which in my opinion is a hard skill to master. But here, Season Vining delivers a great job in not only telling thing from Josie or Tristan's feeling, but also from other people's standpoints, including from the "enemies'" view. I also appreciated the fact that the story was not solely focused on the couple, but also on the side-characters.All in all, I highly recommend this book for all those looking for a refreshing change in scenery and a thrilling read with awesome storytwists!