Review: Honest review given
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
5 StarsGrace is struggling to keep her head above water, after losing her fiancé Tom to suicide and then submitting to alcohol abuse to drown out her pain, her life has been thrown into turmoil. After several months of blotting out the hurt with alcohol, it takes losing her job as a chef to make her realise she has to give it up and get her life back on track. So she takes a job at Charlie's bar with a resolve to stay dry. There she meets Logan, he works the door at the bar and is also a fighter in the boss, Charlie's, side-line venture of Final Blow, a minor cage fighting league. Grace doesn't realise it at first but they have met before, on an evening days after her fiancé's suicide when she was really drunk and had spilt her drink on him on her way out of the bar. On that first meeting Logan saw a familiar pain reflected in Grace's eyes and felt a fierce urge to help her. And so after Grace falls off the wagon after her first few weeks at Charlie's putting her job in jeopardy, Logan makes it his mission to keep her on the straight and narrow.Logan has his own demons, he struggles with flashbacks to his time on the front line in Afghanistan, his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has caused him to be phobic of crowds, noisy places and becoming close to people in any way. I thought the way the author wrote Logan's experiences and struggles was really educational, she shed light on a subject that a lot of us don't think about. Sure we understand and acknowledge the ramifications of soldiers returning home with missing limbs and other physical injuries but many of us don't consider those suffering mentally and psychologically, and often those war wounds can be the most life-altering and destructive. I think it is great that she is spreading awareness of this condition in this way.The blossoming of Logan and Grace's relationship was a beautiful thing to witness, they both deserved such happiness and they were perfect for each other. Both understood the demons that plagued the other and I think both were the only person that could save the other.I would highly recommend this book, five stars from me, it was a superbly written, beautiful story that you should add to your TBR list right away.