Review: amazing!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
This review is also on All Romance Reviews.Wow. Just wow. I really wasn’t sure what to expect by this book but I ended up loving it. I have to start of with commending the author on the subject matter. Either she grew up in Alaska around king crab fisherman, or she did a ton of research because I felt like I was getting a lesson on the harsh life of a fisherman. I love it when authors really go the extra mile to paint a picture so real that you feel more like you are watching a movie than reading a book!Aesa, our heroine, has run away from her life in Alaska. She has run away from the pain of losing her mother and the pain of never really having her father as his devotion seemed to always be to the sea. She comes back home in an attempt to repair their fractured relationship while she can.The story that follows is nothing short of amazing. While I will admit that the first few chapters moved a little slowly for me, after Aesa steps aboard the ship, it became impossible for me to put the book down. And then Decker happens.Decker is EVERYTHING. I don’t even know how to begin to tell you how much I love Decker. So ALNatusch could have gone the more traditional route and given Aesa a bunch of issues and then given Decker a bunch of issues and then given us a whole lot of angst and heartache. Instead she gave us Aesa- who had a lot of work to do on herself and then she gave us Decker- who really didn’t. Now, Decker wasn’t perfect. But he had lived and learned and knew what he wanted. He was honest. He knew where he had been and where he wanted to go. And he was just so open and amazing- I think I fell in love with him the first minute he talked to Aesa.I love that Decker and Aesa are really friends first. And they go through a few fires to get where they are. But Aesa is run by fear. Her fear keeps her from her father and almost keeps her from Decker. I want to just touch on the relationship with Aesa’s father for a bit. There were times that this was hard for me. I am a total Daddy’s girl so it was hard for me to see a girl have such a broken relationship with her dad, especially when both of them wanted it to be fixed. What happens between them is all sorts of beautiful and heartwarming and spent a lot of time crying my eyes out.There are so many quotes that I highlighted that if I shared them all with you, you would have to read the book. But there is one from Decker that I have to share.“Disappointment and sadness don’t have to be your life anymore. You can chose to have more,’ he whispered, his head hanging just above me. ‘You can choose me.’ “That. That right there is one of the things I loved the most. Yes- Decker fought for their love plenty of times. But he also gave Aesa and courage and encouragement to fight for herself. So often in books, someone has to be saved, but Decker is letting Aesa know that she can save herself. She can choose to have things be different.I could seriously go on and on forever. But I want you to go out and read this.I will leave you with my favorite line- a quote from Aesa. This just sums up to me what the book is really about. Fear keeps you from great things. Don’t let it run your life.“I faced my fears, and my bravery was rewarded with the ultimate prize. Love.”