Synopsis:
Brooke Summerlin’s life is like a Cinderella story. Raised by an abusive, drug addicted mother, she desperately hides the truth about where she comes from. But Prince Charming arrives in the form of Liam, the most popular guy at school. He sweeps into her life and carries her away to what is supposed to be a happily ever after.
Until it isn’t.
Sebastian McKinney is the son of an Iowa state champion wrestler, and that’s what he’s going to be. Wrestling is his life. He’s focused. Determined. Nothing will stand in his way.
Except a silent illness that almost kills him.
Brooke’s greatest tragedy becomes Sebastian’s second chance at life. Four years later, he’s moving forward, his body healthy, while she is left to sink in grief that threatens to drown her. Haunted by a past she can’t escape.
But sometimes love transcends the boundaries of life and death—between what is known and what cannot be explained. The heart that loved Brooke continues to beat, and even now, it still beats for her.
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This kind of story has been told numerous times and in numerous ways before. When I began reading this, I thought that it would be another rehash of this particular type of story where a guy gets the heart of girl's deceased fiance/boyfriend then feels the same things and/or enjoys the same types of things as said deceased guy. There was a bit of that but it was clear that the author tried to change things up. I can appreciate the effort that she put into it but I don't think that it worked out very well. I just don't think that the story or the characters really worked all that well for me. I liked Sebastian. He was driven and knew what he wanted out of life. He was playing it safe after the transplant but who wouldn't do that after almost dying. I found myself extremely frustrated with Brooke. She seemed flighty and self destructive. I had trouble sympathizing with her situation because she chose to use destructive methods to cope. She had seen how that path turned out for another person in her life and yet she still chose it. I also disliked her friend Olivia because I felt that she actually wasn't a very good friend at all. She seemed to be self-centered to me, only seeing what situations were like for her. It seemed like everyone in the story was so back and forth that it made everything so much more complicated than it needed to be. I was getting whiplash from the story. GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/
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Claire Kingsley writes smart, sexy romances. She's in love with love, and finds inspiration in the stories of broken people who find love and healing together—with a generous dose of steam.
She can't imagine life without coffee, her Kindle, and the sexy heroes who inhabit her imagination. She's living out her own happily ever after in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three kids.
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