Review: Loved it.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2013
If i could write as eloquently as JL Brooks, this review might convey more of the beauty that is Distractions.Violet Phillips is a woman like so many of us - steel poured over porcelain, her outer self belying the gossamer-thin ceramic shell around her heart, pocked and veined with crackled fissures.  In truth, some were caused by demons of her own creation; her mistakes, the pains she caused and wounds she inflicted whether intentional or not.As for the other chips, some were the result of the usual bumps and bruises of life but some came with proper names: Connor and Shepard. The two men are woven in and out of Violet's life bringing colorful banter, erotic charms, baggage and betrayals.And then there is Dr David Robertson, a.k.a. "Doc".  Violet's professional life holds no small amount of anxiety as she struggles to make sense of her mentor's strange behavior just before his unbelievable disappearance.Violet is very real in her her fragility and her strength; the men in her life are no less realistically drawn and this story resonates with the emotional highs and lows of love, betrayal, forgiveness, traumas both physical and psychological, intrigue, second chances and just plain taking chances.I loved every page.