Review: FANTASTIC
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
I had the privilege of reading Undertow last spring and I wasn’t sure what to expect since this would be Amber Lynn Natusch’s first contemporary romance but she delivered big time. Being a fan of her urban fantasy series, CAGED, I knew I could expect an emotionally charged story with complex characters that I would come to love and I was right, god was I right! When you read books within the romance genre, stories and characters can appear to be the same after a short while but Undertow is refreshingly different and it was absolutely fabulous!Aesa is a heroine you can relate to in some form or another, she’s feisty but at the same time she’s incredibly vulnerable even if she doesn’t show it and there’s a painful history that she has with her father, hence her return home. While she’s a flawed character, it’s not overdone but just enough to make her seem like a woman you would know in real life, that’s what Amber does, she creates real characters.Everything about being back home makes Aesa almost regret accompanying her father out to sea, until Decker. Decker is the epitome of calm, cool and collected but that doesn’t mean he’s perfect. He’s equally as flawed as Aesa but their emotional connection happens even before the physical attraction which captivated me for many different reasons.I think what made this book so enjoyable for me was the element of action, angst and romance. Too often books give you one or the other and sometimes just a pinch of all three but Undertow has it all in very equal amounts which had me reading all night long and I simply could not put this book down.This is the story that’s written exceptionally well, one that will command your full attention and it’s a journey of forgiveness and love. You’ll be exhausted when you are done but you’ll also feel content too.“He turned to me with a ghost of a smile. Whatever it hid clearly was painful, and I realized that wihin five minutes of me being in the cabin with him, I had managed to hit a nerve. It reminded me of yet another reason why I didn’t have any close friends: I was terrible at knowing what to say when it mattered most.”If you haven’t experienced a book by Amber Lynn Natusch, let this be your first, you won’t regret it.