Review: 5 Tick. Tick. Tock. Stars.  Complete case of the feels... every single moment of this story rocked me to my core.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2014
When I first found out that Ella Frank was going to create a teacher/student romance I was sold.  Not knowing what to expect of this story but with each teaser revealed something darker was forming.  This wasn't just going to be a story of a forbidden romance, the taboo, this is Ella Frank after all, and this was a pure damaged romance.Addison appears to be nothing but perfect on the outside.  Star student, star athlete and popular.  But that was just what everyone that knew her saw.  Transformed from the girl she used to be, before.  Walking into her History class that morning was going to be the moment that changed her life.Grayson... Mr. McKendrick... He wasn't your typical teacher type. Leaving his world travels to be close to his ailing father, taking a job as a teacher so that he could be close.  But this job, this class and finally this girl was going to change everything.“My ending, staring right at me from the very beginning.”Addison knows what she wants the minute she lays eyes on him, He becomes a fixation, an obsession and her balm... the only thing to silence the noise.“I’d been wrong, I thought as he raised his head. He didn't have the ability to calm me... Grayson had the ability to make me forget.”Grayson’s attempt at remaining unaffected are complete failures.  There is just this pull to this girl that he can’t deny.  It’s not just her sensuality that calls to him or him getting lost in her seduction.  It’s all the broken pieces of her, the things he can see that no one else can.  And denying what he wants is just too hard to fight.“Addison’s mouth was sweet, and her body... it was f’n sinful.”This story was told in such a way that your attention was held the entire time.  There is so much beyond the premise of their relationship, things that the reader just experience for themselves.  But Ella Frank takes you from the end, through the past from the very beginning and you just have to hold on.There has always been one stand out book that I’ve read, Blind Obsession. It wasn’t my first Ella Frank experience but it had been by far the most memorable.  I expected VI to be a five star read, I don’t think Ella Frank has it in her to write a bad story.  But I did not expect to feel the way I felt while reading this book.  My heart raced, it broke and I don’t think I took a breath for the last five minutes of the story.  I am still reeling from this story, unable to know at this given moment if this knocked BO down a notch just to take its place, but I know for certain that this is the kind of story that you aren’t finished with just because you read those two words... <i>The End</i>. This is the kind of story that will sneak back into your thoughts days, weeks later.  I have no doubt that when I am least expecting it, something about this story will hit him and I will have to explain the crazy emotional mess I will become.We were teases with pure sensuality that had you white knuckling your Kindle, forcing you to take a break from reading it because it just became so overwhelming that you needed to steady yourself.  Then moments when something was going to be revealed or someone was going to finally give into temptation and you realized that your heart was racing, beating out of your chest.  This wasn’t a story you just read, you experienced it. Every. Single. Moment.My emotions were on high alert throughout this entire story.  I had no idea where Ella was going to take us next, each turn brought you deeper into their story.  I don’t think there was a single emotion I did not experience while reading this.  I had moments of pure fear, a short period of time when I was trying to figure out how to politely tell off Ella, then another twist would appear.There was nothing predictable about this story.  Grayson struggled with his feelings but owned them completely.  Addison was broken but she wasn’t that weak heroine, there was just something about her that drew you in.  She seduces you just as much as she seduces him.“I dropped my head into my hands, remembering Addison’s words, I’m your monster. She was so very wrong. I was honest enough to admit I was fighting myself. I’d become my own monster."Read this book.  Devour it.  Dedicate time to savor it.  This was one of those intricate stories that requires your full attention.  Laundry will be left dirty and piled on the floor, kids left to fend for themselves, husbands unfed... Do not think you can do two things at once, you won’t.  I know.  I tried.  I gave it all of ten minutes before I had to give my husband a stern look and ask him not to speak to me until I was finished.  This is that kind of read, all consuming... in the best possible way.