Synopsis:
After enduring an abusive childhood and having her heart broken by the only boy she trusts, Alexis White vows to never let anyone hurt her again. She's left her troubled past behind and starts a new life at college. For the past seven years, her social calendar has been filled with frat parties, drinking, and meaningless sexual hook-ups. Until one night she unexpectedly gets saved by a tall, dark, and handsome French foreigner, Luc Blanchard. He's charming, sophisticated, and very interested in Lexi, who has presented herself as a challenge when she tells him relationships aren't her thing.
She finds herself sucked in by his own intriguing past. But everything changes when Dylan Priestley, the gorgeous boy who broke her heart and shattered her faith in friendship and love, suddenly shows up in her life again while back home on a visit. Dylan doesn't hide his feelings for Lexi, but she can't forgive or forget being betrayed by the one person she ever truly loved.
Despite the pain Dylan's caused her, Lexi is once again drawn to the blue-eyed-boy-next-door. Will Lexi choose the man who seems perfect but hides a dark side or the boy who smashed her heart into pieces so many years ago?
Warning: This book ends in a cliffhanger. This is book one of a trilogy. Release dates will be held close together.
My Review (review copy provided courtesy of Xpresso Book Tours)
3.5 stars
I am so conflicted with this book. First, everyone that
reads my reviews know I have a love/hate relationship with cliffhangers and
love triangles...well guess what? We get both; the cliffhanger is a biggie the
love triangle not so much. So where do I start? Luc...beautiful French
mysterious Luc, I loved him in the beginning and I really wanted Lex to end up
with him but as some twists and turns are revealed in the book he may not be
the guy we all originally thought. Daryn...popular handsome boy next door Daryn,
I had my doubts about him and again as some things are revealed everything I
thought changed. Then we have Alexa...smart beautiful broken Alexa, I unfortunately
had a hard time with her character I just couldn't connect. She made so many
horrible decisions for being such a smart girl. We are constantly told in the
book how smart she is but then signs are there, she's been through it her whole
life and she justifies things...run.
The two people that she was closest to most of her life and
trusted; her sister Ashley and then her ex Daryn tell her some pretty important
info but she brushes it off. Then her best friend and roommate whom she
completely trusts said she's getting weird vibes but she doesn't listen. This
is a girl in law school and top of her class so I just couldn't by her naivety.
That and only that is what’s deterring me from loving this book. She rants
about trust and cheating and becomes a total hypocrite. I do understand her self-doubt
but there were too many times things happened for her to ignore and when
someone repeatedly tells you, you are good enough and loved and that you are
the only person they ever would want and you repeatedly push them away, I guess
I would stop trying.
I want Alexa to find happiness and I would love to
see her end up with her true love, but she needs to start chasing and begging
now because I feel he did everything he could have.
I'm really trying not to write spoilers in this review and finding
it difficult. So without spoiling I want to say Alexa needs to step up, Daryn
needs to step down, and Luc, well he needs to redeem himself. I think the next book
is going to be a bumpy ride because Alexa is in deep now and she needs to find
away out.
I will read the next book. I want to find out what becomes
of this crazy love triangle. And I did enjoy the book it just lacked a little
something for me to love it.
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