Review: Roller Coaster of Love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2013
**ARC**We meet Gabby in the opener of this book as a 12 yr. old girl whose mother is sick and dying. It tells us how her father has disappeared into his work and her older brother Aaron is left to take care of her and make sure she is given the love and support every 12 yr. old child needs from their parents. After her mom passes, Aaron disappears from her life to not be heard from for the last 10 yrs.Gabby is now a 22 yr. old college graduate and working for her father's company. She has been through some things in her teen into early adult years. She has many scars that grace her. She has sworn off men completely and is just trying to make it through life.Brandy is Gabby's best friend and roommate. Brandy is always trying to make Gabby live her life for the day. She is her personal cheerleader in all things love & happiness. Brandy only wants for Gabby to do what her heart tells her to do and follow her dreams.Aaron left his sister the day his mom passed away and has not returned home since. He doesn't know how to tell Gabby why he left and is hoping that one day she will sit down and listen to all the reasons why he had to go. He just wants his sister back in his life who means more to him than anything in life.Jason has set his eye on Gabby since the moment he saw her in the back of the limo on the bridge. There is something about her that he just seems to not be able to stop thinking about her. He is enjoying the sarcasm and banter that Gabby throws at him. Jason will not give in until he gets what he wants and it seems that is Gabby. She is a mystery to him.I absolutely fell in love with Gabby's story in this book. She has been through so much in life and is tired of people always sheltering her, thinking that she is weak. When Jason walks into her life, she is finally seeing what it is like to live her life for herself and not what others expect from her. She is having a hard time letting Jason in after she realizes that he has known her brother Aaron from the time he left her when her mother passed away.Gabby has finally awoken the sleeping heart that Jason once had. He doesn't understand how one person, one smile and one laugh can make him feel whole & want to love again. He has a pretty dark past and is trying to keep it hidden from Gabby not knowing how to tell her his past. Little does he know Gabby has a secret that she doesn't want or know how to tell Jason. She is afraid he will reject her and not see her as a Beautiful woman.When everyone's worlds collide and all secrets and past lives are finally revealed can their bonds of strength still stand strong or will they all lose each other in the end?I fell in love with Gabby and Brandy right from the start. They reminded me a lot of my relationship with my best friend. We are close and I don't see her as anything less than a sister in life. Gabby has been through the Hells of life and Brandy has always been there with her to help her along the way and picked her up off the ground when she needed it the most. Aaron and Jason have much of the same story with being close and needing one another. Aaron was there to pick up the pieces of Jason's life when he needed him to. Jason & Gabby have no idea just how interconnected their lives are, and it shows that they want to love one another but are afraid at the same time. Every emotion that these two were feeling in the book, I was right there with them feeling the same emotion. It was such a roller-coaster reading this book and I loved every moment of it! I want book 2 to come out like TOMORROW so that I can continue on the journey with this crazy foursome and not feel like I am missing my friends.