Torn from You by Nashoda RoseMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
ARC provided by author through NetGalley for an honest review.
4 INTENSE ROCKING STARS
All I can say is DANG! It starts out so intense. I felt Emily's confusion and anxiety when she first hears and sees Sculpt aka Logan. She's thrown into this situation where she just doesn't know how to react. She can't comprehend her circumstances. She wants to fight at every turn, yet she knows it will cause her more pain. the fight or flight instinct is so strong in her.
The things she has to do to stay alive, the things she has to believe in order to not get her hopes up too much, yet not be broken. Then to know that the person she loved was part of it, yet not understanding when Sculpt is nice to her. She's built up ever so slightly, only to be torn down again. She fights from within not to be broken.
Once she back home with her friends, its her work with abused horses on the farm where she works and lives that bring her back to the living.
Only to find out that Sculpt owns the farm, when he shows up years later. He's determined to win her back at all costs and to continue to keep her safe even is Emily wants to fight her feelings for him.
"You don't get to do that. You let me go, remember. I'm free now and I don't need anything from you. I'm not your fucking sex slave to cram your cock into every night." ~ Emily
"Trust is built. Ours just needs to be rebuilt and it takes time. But baby, we'll do it together." ~ Logan aka Sculpt
I really liked this book. Like I said, the beginning was so intense. I wanted to like Logan, but couldn't reconcile the things he was doing to Emily with who I or Emily wanted him to be. It's not until years later, when he tries to explain, that you understand the position he was in. The position he put himself in to in order to protect her in his way. Where there different things he could have done? Not without getting both of them killed or stalked and killed later. It was an unwinable situation.
Then the story gets a little soft. I liked what I read, but I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think I knew where it was headed and would have liked it if it was more of a surprise to have snuck up on me. There was one shocker that came in I didn't see coming until I was reading the situation (view spoiler).
I want the author to get an editor or beta readers, because my problem with With You is my same issue here, with the spelling and grammatical errors. Don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect, but I just think a little more care could have been taken. Example were she writes 'vanilla envelope' instead of 'manilla envelope.'
I loved the H/h and the peripheral characters. I can't wait to learn more about Ream and Kat, Deck and Georgie, and Kai and Raven. Even Kite and Crisis. I mean, where did she come up with these names? I want to read about all of them.
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