This book has been on my TBR for years and I could never bring myself to read it. I guessed the secret from the blurb, as intended, and I figured the book would be an ugly cry read. What I didn't expect was that I not only ugly cried while reading this, but I couldn't stop crying and I couldn't put it down.

 

Geez Sophie literally went through hell in every aspect of her life. There wasn't a single person who stood by her or even second guessed the story. Even the people closest and involved and for most of the book I couldn't understand why Carey was letting her drown like that. I started to hate him. Then Blake with his push and pull, I went on a whole rollercoaster twice on how I felt about him and how I wanted things to play out.

 

George was the absolute star of the show. He was the only person who actually saw Sophie and guided her towards seeing the rest of everyone's pictures. Because by the end of that story when you stand back and see the view from everyone's frames you can see what you were missing.

 

Sophie broke me with how much she was carrying. And parts of her story are parts I could completely understand, other parts I could only watch and image the pain that was inflicted. But she never once wavered from being her beautiful self. And she just took it all on with so much dignity I loved her. But I loved her even more when everything finally came to light, and she just quietly did what she needed to do for herself.

 

Now for me as a die-hard romance reader, I would have killed for an epilogue for Sophie and Carey and Blake to be all together again with everything out on the table. I also am dying to know what Angel was thinking and what was going on with her and Blake. But the way that ended was beautiful and I am going to have this book and especially Sophie living in my head rent free for years.

 

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