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Synopsis
Tatum Elliot is a successful writer on a hit television show, lives in an Upper East Side apartment and loves her life. She wouldn’t change a thing. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a choice. She’s losing her sight.
Tripping over her tongue and her heels, Tatum all too quickly realizes that the things which appeared so important before are slowly slipping away leaving room for what really matters. With the support of her best friends, family and colleagues, she begins to see that there’s much more to life… and herself.
When Ben Harris enters her life as her new personal assistant, she can’t tell if it’s his good looks and charm that are working on her libido, or his kind and helpful nature working on her heart? Whatever it is, neither one of them can resist it.
As her vision fades out, a world of love and happiness just might…Fade In.
Fade In is a contemporary-romance novel about laughing through your tears and telling life to, quite frankly, “Suck it.” This novel contains sexual situations that the author may or may not have tried at home… for your safety, of course. Research is research.
Review
This book follows Tatum and Ben. Tatum seems to have very much going for her she lives in a nice place, has great friends and a great job. But she is losing her eyesight. Considering she is losing her eyesight quicker then she thought she wasn’t a mopey character like I was expecting, in fact she was the complete opposite. Tatum is a sarcastic, comical and fun loving girl. She is a rather lovable character and such a joy to read about.
Tatum is told her eyesight is getting worse and that she needs to consider simplifying her life, she does this by hiring a personal assistant to help around her home. This is when she meets Ben. Ben comes into the interview and they just seem to click. Tatum seems comfortable with him, so she hires him on the spot. This is where the fun begins as they try to maintain a professional relationship although they flirt from time to time. Ben is also hiding something that it takes a long time to find out what it is.
There is lots of miscommunication between these two, which causes some tears and heartbreak for both. Tatum at times feels like Ben is trying to make her face her issue quicker than she is ready to and Ben sometimes doesn’t say the things he really means. Getting help from her best friend Winnie and her brother Cooper she starts to see that the things he is doing isn’t to be annoying but because he cares about her.
They go on a date to a place that Ben thinks that she will want to see while she can, Tatum agrees but is unsure of how the next day at work will be. Will they go back to being professional or are they now more. A second date happens and it looks like things are going well. Until Tatum goes to the doctors and is told more bad news. This leads to a sob fest but also a relationship changing moment for the two of them. “Please, just say you feel this. Tell me you feel it for real, not just some fling. Not just to scratch an itch.”
A trip away for the two of them, is just what is needed for them to try and figure out what they are to each other and how they feel about each other. Coming back from the trip as a couple things seem to be going well for them, until Cooper and Winnie’s wedding, this is where disaster happens. Things that were hidden are now out in the open, people that you thought were honest turn out to not be, hearts are broken, tears are shed and relationships are tested to the max.
The ending to this book, was how it should have been in my opinion. I wouldn’t have wanted it to end any other way. This book was such a roller-coaster of emotion from start to finish. Well done M Mabie on a fantastic read.
Stacey
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