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Synopsis
Past. Everyone has one. It shapes the person they become. It determines the present. It even contributes to the future. And sometimes, people are thrown together in spite of it.
It was no secret that Megan Verona was raped. It crippled her being, turning her from a vibrant young woman to someone who feared intimacy. After years of struggling, she decided to seek help with a therapist, Declan Connors, in hopes of being able to finally have a relationship. Declan wanted to help Megan; he wanted to help everyone who sought his aid, but she was different. She consumed his thoughts until he could no longer deny his feelings. He hadn’t expected to fall for her and fall hard, but he did. It was a wonder when she returned some of his sentiment. But, like everyone, Declan also has a past, one riddled with pain and anguish, one he hadn’t fully dealt with.
If helping Megan brought out his own shadows, what did loving her do? How do both their pasts play a role in their future? Most importantly, can they conquer the past that threw them together?
Review
Megan was brutally attacked one night and had her innocence stolen from her. Since then she’s never been able to forget, move forward or been able to get close to another man, so after many attempts with different therapists she’s finally referred to Declan, a younger psychologist who might be able to finally help her. But Declan is battling his own demons. Can these two individuals who are tortured by their own pasts, move beyond them and end up not only helping each other by end up together?
“Past. Everyone has one. It shapes the person they become. It determines the present. It even contributes to the future. And sometimes, people are thrown together in spite of it.”
Let me start of by saying that I loved the title of this story and the cover, straight away those two things grabbed me and I was intrigued and eager to get started. The story didn’t disappoint at all. It had characters with depth and a different story line that was original.
“I can’t live in this stupid bubble; it isn’t doing me any good. I need out. I need air to breathe. I need to be normal.”
Megan was a beautiful person but so traumatised from what had happened to her. I felt her pain, her loss at what to do next to feel “normal” again. She was strong in admitting that she needed help and wanting to move forward and despite all the bad memories and haunting past she never gave up. I really admired her and hoped she would find her HEA.
“It fucking sucks knowing that no one is coming to save you. I don’t want that false fucking hope again. I can’t take it. My heart, my body, my fragile fucking mind can’t take it!”
Declan was a great male lead. I loved his profession and how he wanted to help others overcome their traumas and pasta despite having his own past filled with anguish and torment. He was understanding, caring and of course sexy and then the twists and secrets are revealed and I had no idea how to feel, it was a roller coaster of emotion.
“She might have been right. She might have been broken, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t fixable.”
It was a beautiful and brutal love story for sure. As the title suggests there is brutality, there is betrayal but it as beautiful watching these two very broken people to heal each other. I won’t say much as I don’t want to give away anything but even though I some saw things coming, there were some things I definitely didn’t and I was sat there reading with my mouth wide open wondering what would happen next.
“And then came the big reveal. It had torn her apart, obliterated her world, and ruined her very being more than it had been previously. She was absolutely and utterly lost.”
A intriguing plot, characters that you love, then hate, then love again and a very original story that kept me hooked.
Bethany
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