Review: It's All a Matter of POV!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
Fire & Ice by Genevieve Jourdin is really two stories in one!  HUGE BONUS - because both are amazing!  After what was thought of as a slight head injury, a young woman wakes up the next morning with no memory of the past two years.  Lying next to her is her best friend's younger brother, correction, HOT younger brother!  But why is Carter in Justine's bed?  What is going on?  Told from Justine's POV, life is now one big terrifying question mark.  Carter claims they live together, but the last thing Justine remembers is breaking it off with another guy.  Justine is scared, doesn't know what to think, everything and everyone is different and she has no memory to back up the changes.  Even her career as a chef in  a restaurant has changed!  Justine is drawn to Carter like a moth to a flame, but, no way could they be living together!  With amazing patience, Carter gives Justine as much space as possible, even though it's killing him, hurting him.  As Justine's memories come back and she finds the missing pieces of her life, she uncovers a HUGE shock that may have been what sent her mind into a black haze.  She also realizes that Carter is all she could ever want in a man, younger or not!The second half of the book is actually book two, the same time frame told in Carter's POV.  For Carter, watching Justine fumble for her memories and not being able to hold her is killing him.  The fact that she refuses to believe they are in love is so painful, but he manages to make every allowance possible in an effort to help bring back his Justine.  As Justine's memories start to come back, he feels hope, because she is the only woman he will ever love.  When she finally knows all, his dreams come true!At the end of the story, in place of a 'regular' epilogue, Ms. Jourdin has cleverly inserted a "prologue" as an epilogue.  So the reader is thrust back in time, to the first time Carter laid eyes on Justine, he was a freshman in high school, riding a bike to school, she was in college.  He vowed then and there that she was the woman for him!  Told from Carter's POV, it was priceless!  What a great read, with a unique way to tell it!  For me, I can't tell if I liked Justine's POV or Carter's best!  I do have to say, I think Carter is the new standard for romance heroes for me!  (Even if he doesn't have fangs!)