Review: 3.5 Stars!!! Loved Theo!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2013
Blaze of Winter is part of a series about the Grayson Brothers.  I have not read the first book, although I do plan to now, and I did not feel at all lost while reading this book.  This was a very good contemporary romance novel.Theo Grayson, also known as T.R. Grayson the famous author, has hit a major road block in his career of writing.  He is having a problem with writer's block and needs some inspiration.  Theo is a hot, dark, handsome, and intelligent man who wears glasses.  The way he is described, he kind of reminds me of a bad boy Clark Kent.  Theo grew up in Star Harbor with his family and three brothers.  He ends up staying with his brothers but can't seem to get any sleep, so he decides to go stay at the local inn.  This of course is where he meets Avery, a woman he as an attraction to unlike any other woman he has ever met.Avery is sort of running away from the problems in her life by coming to Star Harbor to help her Aunt run her inn while she is undergoing Breast Cancer treatment.  We learn that Avery was a counselor to rehab patients.  She blames herself for a patient she lost. Avery is a very pretty girl with self esteem problems.  So not only does she believe she is not pretty enough, she also sees herself as a failure for losing a patient she realized was in trouble too late to save.These two come together and sparks start to fly immediately.  They compliment each other perfectly.  Where Theo had enough confidence to last a life time, Avery was down to earth and extremely humble.  Theo helped Avery to realize the loss of her patient wasn't her fault as well as making her see the beauty in herself."Slamming the door in her face had been inexcusably rude, but it wouldn't have been any less rude if he's shoved her up against the wall an kissed her senseless.  And that's exactly what he would have done had he stayed in that damned hallway.  He never did things like that.  Didn't even contemplate them--unlike his twin, Seb.  But for that woman, he was ready to do an about-face."Honestly I feel like Theo was having such a problem with writer's block because subconsciously he realized there was something missing in his life.  He had lived the life of a celebrity writer and been used by women for his status, but that's not to say that he didn't mind it in the beginning.  It just feels like he wanted something more than the fake people that surrounded him in San Francisco."Watching the woman he's slept with the night before cozy up to an editor visiting from New York, he had the strangest feeling that he was living another life--a life that wasn't his own.  He tried to look objectively at his life, and he didn't like who he'd become."I really loved Blaze of Winter.  It was a heart warming story about two imperfect people who come together and end up helping each other become better.  The author had an amazing way of making me an emotional connection with both of the main characters and the past that has scarred them without the story feeling too heavy or depressing.  If you are looking for a light hearted romance about a hot, intelligent guy please look no further than Blaze of Winter!