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Synopsis
I thought I had it all figured out.
The only way I could ever escape the evil hold of my parents was to run and never look back.
Once I was out of their reach I could grow and become the woman I was meant to be. I could finally live my life in peace, but little did I know I can run but the scars that they left on me will always be there. I still lived in fear.
At least I made a friend who knows the truth about me and my past and accepts me for who I am. I thought I had started to live a little but I had no clue what life was really about till this tall dark handsome oil field worker walked in to the bar I worked at and turned my already screwed up world upside down.
He had my attention from the first hello but I was too frightened by my past to even give him a second thought.
But I am glad he never gave up on me. Carter Wilson saved me from myself, but who is going to save us from the past that seems to still haunt me?
MA +18 due to violence, sexual content and language.
The only way I could ever escape the evil hold of my parents was to run and never look back.
Once I was out of their reach I could grow and become the woman I was meant to be. I could finally live my life in peace, but little did I know I can run but the scars that they left on me will always be there. I still lived in fear.
At least I made a friend who knows the truth about me and my past and accepts me for who I am. I thought I had started to live a little but I had no clue what life was really about till this tall dark handsome oil field worker walked in to the bar I worked at and turned my already screwed up world upside down.
He had my attention from the first hello but I was too frightened by my past to even give him a second thought.
But I am glad he never gave up on me. Carter Wilson saved me from myself, but who is going to save us from the past that seems to still haunt me?
MA +18 due to violence, sexual content and language.
Review
In Pleading Paradise Rylee James needs a new life. She is eighteen, just graduated high school and is getting the hell out of Dodge. Rylee has had enough of her dad’s strong hand and her mother’s instigation of the situations at home.
Rylee jumps into her car and heads towards Mexico, on her last dime she is close to a little beach community aptly named Paradise and decides to settle down there. Due to her past, Rylee isn’t looking to make instant connections, just find a roof over her head and a way to put money in her pocket. Finding a job at a bar quickly, Rylee is comfortable enough to call Paradise home.
Carter Wilson works out in the Gulf on an oil rig, so he has weeks on and off at a time. On his off weeks, him and a few of his fellow co-workers hang out in Paradise as well. Carter knows Rylee from the bar, but has never had the opportunity to really get to “know” her.
Rylee has befriended the man that owns the bar and his daughter, we fast forward three years with Rylee’s friend dating Carter’s friend and Rylee feeling more comfortable in her own skin. After an incident at the bar one night, Rylee decides to give Carter a second look.
With the walls Rylee has built up around her, Carter is having a heck of a time earning her trust to learn about her past. Things were done to Rylee that she can never forget, however wants to move on from, hopefully with Carter’s help. The story gets pretty convoluted and a bit unbelievable once Rylee’s past comes back to haunt her.
The book packs a lot into a few pages, but still seemed to take a while to finish, as I just wasn’t connecting to the characters. It could also use a grammar check. While I am not an English major, there were quite a few typos and run-on sentences that I found distracting as I read. Pleading Paradise started off with a good story line, however got to be too much for me.
Tiffany
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