Author: Brittainy C. Cherry
Language: English
Format: ebook
Rating: 4 stars
Reading challenge: A book where plants and/or a garden has an important role
No of pages: 369
Date read: 26.11.2017
BLURB:
Graham Russell and I weren’t made for one another.
I was driven by emotion; he was apathetic. I dreamed while he lived in nightmares. I cried when he had no tears to shed.
Despite his frozen heart and my readiness to run, we sometimes shared seconds. Seconds when our eyes locked and we saw each other’s secrets. Seconds when his lips tasted my fears, and I breathed in his pains. Seconds when we both imagined what it would be like to love one another.
Those seconds left us floating, but when reality knocked us sideways, gravity forced us to descend.
Graham Russell wasn’t a man who knew how to love, and I wasn’t a woman who knew how to either. Yet if I had the chance to fall again, I’d fall with him forever.
Even if we were destined to crash against solid ground.
SLOW BURN ROMANCE! YES!
There are some parts to this novel that I'm not a big fan of - both the hero and the heroine being in a relationship with other people at the start, but it all changes throughout the course of the novel. There's no cheating and it takes the hero and heroine almost three quarters of the novel to even kiss - the slow burn fanatic in my LOVES that. Their relationship develops gradually, just the way I like it and it seems natural and just right.
There's some angst, but it simply goes hand in hand with the slow burn side of things and I didn't mind it one bit. One might even say that I actually loved it.
It's also my first time reading anything by Ms. Cherry, but if this book is anything to go by, I'm probably going to love her other works as well because this one was superbly done. Just the thing for my reading palate. There was tension, there was attraction that I could understand, there was some banter, and most of all, I liked the protagonists.
There's some angst, but it simply goes hand in hand with the slow burn side of things and I didn't mind it one bit. One might even say that I actually loved it.
It's also my first time reading anything by Ms. Cherry, but if this book is anything to go by, I'm probably going to love her other works as well because this one was superbly done. Just the thing for my reading palate. There was tension, there was attraction that I could understand, there was some banter, and most of all, I liked the protagonists.
Lucy and Graham are two complete opposites, but their relationship works because they get to know each other. They know the good and the bad. They take the time to really know the other one. They don't just simply jump head first in - except for maybe Lucy by trying to do her best by helping Graham out - but, what's most important for me, that the emotional connection came before the physical one.
Definitely going to keep my eye on Ms Cherry (er... her work) from now on.
Definitely going to keep my eye on Ms Cherry (er... her work) from now on.
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