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Synopsis

Their love burned bright, white hot, and strikingly blue around the edges.

Some thought them careless.

Some thought them crazy.

No one approved.

Taylor Barrett was looking for answers in a universe that had abandoned him.

Jude Boehler flooded her dark world with charisma and mystery, drawing everyone into her hurricane.

It was a most captivating of love affairs. They were shooting stars, meteors in the sky, colliding to create a spectacularly wonderful reckless romance, leaving them breathless and tethered.

Their souls were exposed to the chaos, bare and vulnerable. Can these two star-crossed lovers survive the madness that is life?

Review

Every once in awhile a book comes along that reminds me exactly why I love reading so damn much; the beauty and the emotion that flows through each sentence, pours from the characters and dances across my mind and heart in complete awe and produces that giddy excitement when thinking about writing the review because you just NEED people to read this book…this is it.  Until I Met You is such a stunning and moving read, contrasting brilliantly between a sweet whimsical romance and a much more intense and overwrought one.

What starts out as one of the sweetest, most playful meetings between our hero and heroine at a ritzy glitzy society function, develops into something indefinable and oh so real within the space of one night, where your choice of ice cream could redefine the rest of your whole life.  Taylor and Jude share a soul deep connection almost instantaneously, as though one recognises the internal struggle and heartache in the other and they each cling to each other in safety, trying to obliterate the loneliness that their darker and more complex issues cause them.  It’s in this crazy, almost carefree introduction that the most unpredictable and all consuming friendship and love affair blooms and paves the way for one of several difficult fights they have, in order to work their way towards a happy ever after with each other.

This is my first S.L Scott novel and what a way to be introduced to her work.  Her writing is literally poetry in motion.  The wide scope of emotion and the depth of her words and the meaning behind them all,  took my breath away more than once, so much so that I had to bend my husband’s ear after I had read it because I had to share it with someone!

‘“One doesn’t stand before the ocean and call it handsome.  We didn’t stare at the stars last April and say it was a handsome night.  Love knows only the beauty of its power, not the intricacies of verses.  So no, Hazel, you’re not handsome.  You’re beautiful like the stars.  You’re beautiful like the ocean.  You’re beautiful like the love I feel for you.”

Powerful, visceral and completely epic, Until I Met You has got to be one of my top five reads for this year.  The characterisation is immaculate here, the complications and the pain, the sadness and the devastation all seep into you but then so too does the happiness, the strength of Taylor and Jude and the overwhelming love they have for each other.  As with any great romance there are outside elements that conspire to keep our fearless twosome apart as well as those that cannot be fought by most ordinary standards, but it is in this fight to be together, that we as the reader are given one of the greatest, most memorable and awe-inspiring romances of 2015.  S.L Scott has managed to tackle not one but two very sensitive subject matters in her protagonists, with much aplomb and intelligence, highlighting not only how serious each issue is but also how unbelievably strong and courageous you need to be to keep fighting your way out of the dark.  An absolutely sterling piece of writing.

~Nicole

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