Review: Dark, sexy and incredibly moving!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2012
I am almost at a loss as to how to describe my feelings for this book. It has moved into the top tier of my favorites and is an incredibly moving story, but the differences from what I usually read lie in the formatting. Ordinarily, I admit, I would find it irritating, but that feeling quickly passed as I got pulled--um, shoved--so far into the story that I couldn't help but to fall in love with the characters and the story of forbidden, impossible love. This book has a very satisfying happily ever after, a somewhat alpha male, a strong tortured heroine, and a plot that pulls at the heartstrings. One huge, positive aspect of the story is we see the POV of both the hero and heroine.Abused by her alcoholic father, Rowan ends up staying with her best friend's brother Logan when he finds out about the abuse Rowan has kept secret, which results in his promise to keep the secret as long as she stays in his apartment when her father is on his drunken binges. Rowan has been attracted to Logan for a long time without any real hope of anything between them until they are thrown together in the same apartment on long, lonely nights and in the middle of snow storms. They slowly begin to fall in love as attraction for one another explodes. Their need for each other is so clear and real that it seems as if it's inevitable they will be together despite the very real obstacles of his dreams and her dreams being on opposing sides of the country. Logan has worked very hard to leave Michigan for a prestigious law firm in Colorado once he finishes law school and Rowan has accepted a full scholarship to a Michigan college, where she will roommate with Logan's sister and her best friend. They are both about to get everything they've worked so hard to achieve until they fall in love and eventually realize that love is the most important dream of all.I highly recommend this book and encourage readers to look beyond the long prose and character thoughts that fill the book. Sometimes it's almost like reading two personal journals, but it is so well worth it in the end. The characters are very well developed and their emotions fairly jump off the pages. Most of the other characters are cardboard and one dimensional, but I didn't really care about them anyway. This was Rowan and Logan's story hands down.If you want to read a moving love story that will stay with you long after the last word is read, this is it!  I can't wait to read more from this author.