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Synopsis
Losing your ability to speak at the age of seventeen; it’s not normal or fair.
But trauma, has a way of throwing normality out the window.
Dani lives anything but a normal life.
Her sister is married to one of the biggest names in Hollywood.
Her best friends are rockstar duo AD2.
And she has more love around her than most people experience in a lifetime.
But that doesn’t change the fact their parents are dead.
Or that it’s her fault.
It seems her new normal is being a mute, living on the inside, unable to actually communicate on the outside.
That is until Hollywood’s newest heartthrob Lincoln Greene hires her as his assistant for the summer.
He’s gorgeous, completely unavailable, and unobtainable.
But that doesn’t stop her from wondering…if things were different…would he want her?
If she was whole, would he be the other half?
Review
‘We rode the elevator in silence. We walked down the hall . . . in silence. I opened my door – yup, you guessed it – in silence. The silence was going to kill me.’
This book took me by complete surprise, although I am not sure why I have yet to read a book by Rachel that didn’t blow me away. Capture is the first book in the Seaside Pictures series and is a spin-off of the Seaside series. I personally have not read the Seaside series so I can attest that this can very easily be read as a standalone.
‘Cake. Forget Lincoln Greene. Forget Seaside. Focus on the cake. Chocolate Cake. My therapist had said I needed goals. Well, my new goal? Eating that cake while giving Lincoln the middle finger in my mind’
I two concerns going into this book. First I was worries that with the main character being a mute that there would not be enough dialogue for me. This is a person hang-up of mine so I was very excited to see that through text and the use of secondary characters there was more than enough dialogue to make the story flow smoothly. My second concern was this was a “fame” book. I often find books in which the main character is famous are just not my favorite. There are exceptions to this but more often than not the book is about being “famous” and the troubles that come with that. This is just not my personal favorite type of plot and was the reason up until now I had not read the Seaside series. Well, let me tell you that is a mistake I plan on rectifying ASAP. Capture was so much more than a book about fame. Lincoln was so much more than a movie star. Lincoln (and several other characters’) fame was not the issue in the book and not used as the main drama in the book. I am so happy I decided to read this book because as usual Rachel blew me away.
‘Great, just great. Not only was I unable to speak, but now I was a sexually frustrated mute.’
After a great tragedy, Dani has become a selective mute and she has lost the support of her boyfriend and friends. She left seaside to live with her sister and bother in law who are both famous actors. In order to get her out of her shell and avoid being alone all the time her brother in law gets her a job as a personal assistant to the other main actor on the movie they are filming. Lincoln Greene is a Hollywood heartthrob but from the moment he meets 17 year old mute Dani he treats her the same he would anyone else. Using texts to communicate they form a quick friendship. Lincoln is clearly attracted to beautiful Dani but she is seventeen and the sister of his costars so he knows he must hold himself back. But how long can he resist the one girl to truly see him and get under his skin?
‘I wanted to earn her in the worst way possible. I wanted it to be hard, because I knew if it was easy, it wasn’t real. And it felt real. Too real.’
Capture was exactly what I needed after coming off a angst heavy book hangover. Fun and fast I fell deeply for Linc and Dani as well as the entire ensemble of characters. Once I started the book nothing in my life could have made me put it down. I felt an instant connection to Dani and her quick wit and snarky attitude and Lincoln was book boyfriend perfection. I am DESPERATE for the next book because I need, yes NEED, Zane’s story. Rachel Van Dyken is a master story teller who does sexual tension, quick wit and unique story lines like no one else.
~miranda
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