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Synopsis:
Self-professed Harry Potter addict and math genius River Jacobsen can count on one hand the people who matter in her life. Really, it's just Dean, the boy who loves her despite her odd habit of counting everything around her when she needs to quiet her mind. When Dean promises her forever she never imagines it will be a lie.
After Marine hacker Ian Maclean is mistakenly declared dead by the US government, he's happy to correct them the moment he escapes captivity. He wants nothing more than to get home to the wife he left behind. Discovering she's been cheating on him since the moment he deployed wasn't in the plan. Devastated, he walks away from everything, even his name.
With the futures they were counting on destroyed, Ian and River find themselves starting over. Ian reminds River of things she'd much rather forget, but pushing him away is harder than she expected. Ian wants a second chance at happily ever after, but the more he gets to know River, the more he worries she isn't trying to figure out how to live again, she's figuring out how to die.
After Marine hacker Ian Maclean is mistakenly declared dead by the US government, he's happy to correct them the moment he escapes captivity. He wants nothing more than to get home to the wife he left behind. Discovering she's been cheating on him since the moment he deployed wasn't in the plan. Devastated, he walks away from everything, even his name.
With the futures they were counting on destroyed, Ian and River find themselves starting over. Ian reminds River of things she'd much rather forget, but pushing him away is harder than she expected. Ian wants a second chance at happily ever after, but the more he gets to know River, the more he worries she isn't trying to figure out how to live again, she's figuring out how to die.
If the synopsis of this book sounds good to you then you are in for a treat! The book is exactly as described with a twists thrown into the mix. There are stories out that are similar to this one but I can promise that not all of them will make you feel the way that this one will.
Ian and River are each struggling to get through each day of their new normal although River seems like she is struggling more so. She is drowning under a sea of depression and is not coping well with the things that she has recently been through. When she and Ian meet she is in no shape for any kind of relationship, friendship or otherwise. River is hard to love when the book kicks off because she is prickly in order to keep all of the other characters in the book at a distance. In short, she is a mess. Ian meets her when he begins working for her boss to improve the security measures at the bar. Ian has his own demons but is it clear that he has dealt with them to some degree because he is not bring crushed under the weight of them.
I loved each of the characters and how the author chose to portray them and their emotions. The author was able to convey the emotions that they were feeling in a realistic way. I felt the turmoil, anger, and grief over the course of the book because the author made me invested in their lives. I believed the small steps toward recovery that they were each able to achieve because the pacing was well done. The events that take place in the book were believable because things were established over the course of the book. There is nothing that is just sprung on the reader because the author appears to respect her audience by letting things unfold in a natural manner.
Ian and River are each struggling to get through each day of their new normal although River seems like she is struggling more so. She is drowning under a sea of depression and is not coping well with the things that she has recently been through. When she and Ian meet she is in no shape for any kind of relationship, friendship or otherwise. River is hard to love when the book kicks off because she is prickly in order to keep all of the other characters in the book at a distance. In short, she is a mess. Ian meets her when he begins working for her boss to improve the security measures at the bar. Ian has his own demons but is it clear that he has dealt with them to some degree because he is not bring crushed under the weight of them.
I loved each of the characters and how the author chose to portray them and their emotions. The author was able to convey the emotions that they were feeling in a realistic way. I felt the turmoil, anger, and grief over the course of the book because the author made me invested in their lives. I believed the small steps toward recovery that they were each able to achieve because the pacing was well done. The events that take place in the book were believable because things were established over the course of the book. There is nothing that is just sprung on the reader because the author appears to respect her audience by letting things unfold in a natural manner.
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