5 Smooches!
Synopsis
Sound is an abstract concept for most people. We spend our lives blocking out the static in order to focus on what we believe is important. But what if, when the clarity fades into silence, it’s the obscure background noise that you would give anything to hold on to?
I’ve always been a fighter. With parents who barely managed to stay out of jail and two little brothers who narrowly avoided foster care, I became skilled at dodging the punches life threw at me. Growing up, I didn’t have anything I could call my own, but from the moment I met Eliza Reynolds, she was always mine. I became utterly addicted to her and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn’t a single night that I didn’t hear her voice.
You see, meeting the love of my life at age thirteen was never part of my plan. However, neither was gradually going deaf at the age of twenty-one.
They both happened anyway.
Now, I’m on the ropes during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting for my career.
Fighting the impending silence.
Fighting for her.
Every night, just before falling asleep, she sighs as a final conscious breath leaves her.
I think that’s the sound I’ll miss the most.
Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.
Review
I have had the pleasure of reading all of Aly Martinez’s books. I knew after reading her Wrecked and Ruined Series that I would love anything her imagination could conjure up. I wasn’t prepared for Fighting Silence though. It was a whole new ballpark and believe it or not I loved this book even more than her others.
In an alpha book world where billionaires, stepbrothers, and dark MC books tend to be dominating the romance genre, comes Till Page. He is a new breed of alpha hero. Till will make you hot in all the delicious book boyfriend ways that we have come to love and in the next breath, you will want to hold him and care for him; protect him from his present and shield him from his future. Your heart will break for him and your soul will root for his happily-ever-after: Eliza.
Fighting Silence is Eliza and Till’s journey from the tender age of 13 when all they have is a condemned apartment, dirty clothes, and each other.
“That window she crawled into is magic.”
“Nu-uh,”
“I’m serious. It’s a magical portal that takes you to a fantasy world. There are no parents or teachers. Everything is nice and clean, and the pantry is always stocked. The best part, though, is that she’s always there.”
“Is she magic too?”
“Absolutely.”
Their story spans years and their friendship grows. All the while you are falling more and more in love with these two beautiful people. All the while you are dying for them to finally come together. But Till never plans to have Eliza the way he truly wants her. That would ruin his fantasy because the truth is he needs the fantasy. The fantasy is what is keeping the present away and the future from looking so grim. Till would rather have Eliza’s friendship than nothing at all. It is the nothing at all that really terrifies him.
“I can’t have you without claiming you for forever.”
“Then claim me. I’ll claim you too.”
“That’s exactly what I’m afraid of, Eliza.”
Eliza and Till have a fight on their hands. There story isn’t an easy one. They will fight for each other.
“There is nothing in this world that was ever more mine than you,”
Fight for Till’s little brothers, Flint and Quarry. (who you also grow to love) Fight the poverty that they were born into and fight the silence that eventually Till will have to live with.
Get ready for an action packed story; windows, doors, doodles, impending silence, and hopes of becoming the heavy weight boxing champ of the world will enrapture you. These Two poor kids with big dreams and even bigger obstacles will capture your heart forever. This is not a book I’ll likely ever forget and one I’ll read again and again. I cannot wait for the next book in this series. It is Flint’s story and I have a feeling I might love him even more than Till.
“It was Flint’s turn to fight.”
~Amie
