Violet Hayes has had a rough life. When she was young, she was left with no family and the memory of her parents' unsolved murders. She grew up in foster homes, living with irresponsible parents, drugs, and neglect, and trying to fight the painful memories of the night her parents were taken from her. But it's hard to forget when she never got closure-and she can't stop dreaming about what happened that tragic night. To make it through life, she keeps her distance from everyone and never allows herself to feel anything.
Then Violet meets Luke. The two clash instantly, yet they can't seem to stay away from each other. Although they fight it, they both start to open up and feel things they've never felt before. They discover just how similar they are. But they also discover something else: The past always catches up with you . . .
My Review
Gosh...Jessica just has a way with making you feel every damn emotion possible while reading her books. While reading Callie and Kayden's story I feel like I too had miss judged Violet. She has a really hard life, one that I would never wish on anyone.
Then there is Luke. The beginning of the story when he was 8........Oh WOW. I just broke. At that point I was so drawn into the story and I was afraid to go on at the same time. How can a parent do that a little kid? I knew now that this was going to be difficult to read. His mother broke him because she was so screwed up and high.
Violet.....What an awful hand she was delivered. To be so young and to have lost both of your parents. Then foster home after foster home. I don't blame her for all the issues that she has, I would not trust anyone either. People are supposed to help each other out right? Yes, she was a total bitch when we met her in Callie's book, but I am glad to see that we should never judge a book by it's cover. I know Pun not intended....or maybe it was.
At college Luke and Violet collide in the strangest of situations. Kinda like being kicked in the face. They both know who the other is and yet they both can sense that they are both troubled. Makes the best of friends right?
"I'm battling my indecisiveness when I hear this strange swooshing sound coming from above me. I look up just in time to see something tumble out of the window of the townhouse we're passing.
I stagger back onto the grass as it falls toward me and stick out my arm to push Blondie back. The tips of a pair of clunky boots clip my forehead and I stumble over my feet as something lands on the grass in front of me and rolls down the shallow incline toward the sidewalk."
Then there is Luke. The beginning of the story when he was 8........Oh WOW. I just broke. At that point I was so drawn into the story and I was afraid to go on at the same time. How can a parent do that a little kid? I knew now that this was going to be difficult to read. His mother broke him because she was so screwed up and high.
Violet.....What an awful hand she was delivered. To be so young and to have lost both of your parents. Then foster home after foster home. I don't blame her for all the issues that she has, I would not trust anyone either. People are supposed to help each other out right? Yes, she was a total bitch when we met her in Callie's book, but I am glad to see that we should never judge a book by it's cover. I know Pun not intended....or maybe it was.
At college Luke and Violet collide in the strangest of situations. Kinda like being kicked in the face. They both know who the other is and yet they both can sense that they are both troubled. Makes the best of friends right?
"I'm battling my indecisiveness when I hear this strange swooshing sound coming from above me. I look up just in time to see something tumble out of the window of the townhouse we're passing.
I stagger back onto the grass as it falls toward me and stick out my arm to push Blondie back. The tips of a pair of clunky boots clip my forehead and I stumble over my feet as something lands on the grass in front of me and rolls down the shallow incline toward the sidewalk."
After that Luke is drawn to Violet in a way that he does not understand why he is so drawn to her. He usually minds his own business and does not share his own issues with others. Yet there is something that just keeps them running into one another.
OK so there is a BIG moment that Jessica SLOWLY build up to. Real SLOWLY....Then she hits us with it. You will figure it out as you read, it was carefully placed throughout the book. This is the moment that I was scared about. There is a connection that neigh one of them could not control but it was as if the universe was playing a really cruel joke on the two.
Luke and Violet......both have had a completely messed up start to life. Now that they are somewhat in control of there own Destiny can they get through this Big piece of information and find a way to make it work?
EXCERPT
I get distracted, though, as she lets her head fall to the side and her arms come up and wind around the back of my neck, her movements owning me. I get a glimpse of the back of her neck and the dragon and two stars tattooed on her skin. I haven’t fucked very many girls with tattoos but good God I need to start because it’s mind-blowingly sexy. I slide my palms around to the front of her stomach and I crush our bodies together. Heat blares through me as the smell of her blends with the alcohol in my system and it makes the hunger and overpowering need inside me feel like it belongs there.
Her hair is swept over her shoulder and her neck is just inches away from my lips. The desire to suck and bite at her skin is intoxicating and without contemplation over what I’m doing or what it’ll mean, my lips part and my tongue slides out along her skin. It’s not like I’ve never licked a girl’s neck before. I have many times, just like I’ve kissed and fucked many times. Usually it drowns out any noise inside my head, but right now I can still hear all of it, if not more. It’s louder. Sharper. More potent and I’m afraid I’m going to lose myself, lose control. But it’s almost like my mouth is being magnetized to her skin and I start sucking on her neck, nipping and grazing my teeth gently along it. With the way her muscles tense, I half expect her to turn around and punch me in the jaw. I sort of wish she would so I’d walk away…at least I think I would…I might actually want to stay more. But instead her head falls to the side, giving me access to devour the taste of her.
My hand wanders up her ribs, across her breast, her nipple hardening underneath the thin fabric. I graze my thumb across it and then move my hand all the way up to the hollow of her neck. She groans as I press my fingers gently into her collarbone and leans back against my chest, putting her weight against me. Reality starts to blur away as I move my hand down her body to her leg and start pulling the fabric of her dress up, desperate to slip my fingers inside her and make her groan louder.
“God, you’re so beautiful…” I breathe against her neck as my hand reaches her upper thigh.
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Bio
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jessica Sorensen, lives in the snowy mountains of Wyoming. When she's not writing, she spends her time reading and hanging out with her family.
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