Review: emotional read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
Beautiful Misery is a book with a full span of emotions running through it.  I was hating this book  within the first half of this story. I cried through the whole first half it was so sad, seeing what the characters went through and then I had calmed down some after and then grew to have so much frustration with the characters.  To say the least, it was a complicated story.  I had to mentally go over the story line in my head once I was done and check my emotions and try to understand what I was feeling with the way the story line went.In this book following up Jenna and Gage's relationship with her new marriage to Larkin we encounter Larkin's sister Cobie who ends up having a one night stand with Gage. They plan on just one night and let it go at that.  Well one night ends up with a surprise later on, Gage stands by Cobie in her pregnancy and end up forming a loving relationship.  But Gage is struck with tragedy with Cobie and must find the strength to go on with life.  There he encounters Annie a bartender, at the bar he owns.  They have a instant connection with each other.  But being only 5 months after Cobie, Gage has a hard time accepting and justifying his feeling so soon.  So Gage goes through life with an attitude with Annie, trying to push her away but keep her close at the same time.Annie has a tragic past as well and has some strong walls built up to keep the men away.  Once she allows her feeling to come out and somewhat tell him, it really make little difference on the way he treats her.Gage is a jerk in the later half of this story trying to deal with his feeling with Annie because he is flat out scared of getting hurt in the process.  Just when I think he can handle life and make Annie happy, he then goes and screws it up the next minute, making me wish I could punch him.There is some great supporting characters in this book who help Gage and Annie get there lives on the right track and support them. I would give this book 4 stars it had some grammatical errors which I can over look but she put a incorrect story line in there and it took me minute to get over the confusion of that and realize it should have been removed.  Other than the mixed emotions loved the story.  ARC received to Just Booked blog for an honest review