Review: touchingly beautiful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
Two incredibly broken souls trying to find their way in the world collide with passion and intensity and it isn’t hard to see why love is the hardest thing fro the two of them to grasp, admit and hold on to. This book is incredible. It takes two lost souls and their mutual love of art and twists their lives together, completing them in such a beautiful way.Bee is new to town and has opened her tattoo shop. This is not only her passion, it is her career and her chance to make it on her own and maybe discover who she is along the way. But nothing about her life is normal and she struggles daily with who she really is. To top it all off, her identity crisis is more than just on the surface. The only thing she feels confident in loving is her work, because it is truly hers. It does not belong to her parents or the parents who kidnapped her… it belongs to her. Her identity has always been confused and she has never been able to open up to anyone, she doesn’t want to risk love. Everyone she loves, she seems to lose. She will never risk that again. Of course, when everything she protects and keeps buried suddenly knocks on her door the decision is now all hers.Maddox has let everyone in his life down. If he hadn’t been covering for his dad, his sister wouldn’t have been hurt. His mother wouldn’t be broken. If he had been honest with them instead of covering his dad’s dark secrets, none of them would have ever ended up how they have. So he has made it is mission to protect his sister from the world. But in his need to protect her from his guilt he is denying himself his chance at happiness. Of course, he doesn’t think he deserves it either. So it’s never really been a question for him. But drawing has been his only passion since everything in his life went wrong.Maddox wants nothing more than to share his work as a tattoo artist, but that seems to be a dream that is just out of his reach when he attempts to get in at the new local tattoo shop… owned by Bee. When his sister secretly speaks with Bee the day after she rejects Maddox without even looking at his art, she has sealed his fate.Unfortunately once the door to the shop is open, the chemistry starts flying and neither is looking to get invested in anything more from one another. But they are spending so much time together. Can they possibly work side by side and not give into temptation? Will their pasts be enough to hold them back from their happiness?This book was a tough read. Not because it was complex but because I just wanted to reach through the pages and hug and comfort these two incredibly broken characters. They have so much of their pasts preventing their futures. I was glued to the pages because I had to know if they could move forward instead of being stuck in the past. If they could truly let go of all the reason they don’t want to be in love and just give it a chance. If they could indeed be “the one” for one another.I loved the characters and I loved the common thread of the tattoo. So many unspoken words are shown in the art of it all and it was just touchingly beautiful. When the past finally takes its toll on a soul and when that soul finally sees the light. When everything you have held inside slowly surfaces… and you find out who you really are on the inside and on the outside.This book is a great book and a touching story. Finding love, losing love, growing to love… it is all a process and this book takes each possibility of love and just makes it that much more amazing.