Rating: 5/5
Book Description
There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
Luck was not on Callie’s side the day of her twelfth birthday when everything was stolen from her. After it’s all over, she locks up her feelings and vows never to tell anyone what happened. Six years later her painful past consumes her life and most days it’s a struggle just to breathe.
For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence was the only way to survive life. As long as he did what he was told, everything was okay. One night, after making a terrible mistake, it seems like his life might be over. Luck was on his side, though, when Callie coincidentally is in the right place at the right time and saves him.
Now he can’t stop thinking about the girl he saw at school, but never really knew. When he ends up at the same college as Callie, he does everything he can to try to get to know her. But Callie is reserved and closed off. The more he tries to be part of her life, the more he realizes Callie might need to be saved.
Review
This book took me by surprise how quickly I really cared for both characters in the story. Callie right off that bat is clearly dealing with an ugly past that is not quite reveled until later in the story. When we meet Callie she is already broken down into a shell of herself never allowing anyone to see who she truly is or what she has lived through.
Kayden from the moment you meet him in the book you know exactly what demons he faces but his coping methods are vastly different from Callie. She is an outcast who prefers to be ignored while he is a star football player dating the head cheerleader. When they meet again in college he hardly recognizes her as she finally starts letting herself out of her shell thanks in big part to her best friend, Seth. Seth is a major part of Callie opening up as he opened up to her about his own past. Together they work to start living again by a list of things they have to do (dance in the rain, talk to a stranger, take a chance, etc.)
The two main characters are of course Callie and Kayden and we see into their pasts much more than their friends.Throughout the story they try very hard to let each other in but can't seem to help but push each other away when it becomes real. They struggle between what they want and feel against what they think they should do or deserve.
This book took me through so many emotions that when I put the book down I felt like I was a part of their lives. I would recommend this book to anyone; it hit some harder topics in life but in a way that shows people that you can move on from them. I will give the heads up that the ending was a little but of a cliff-hanger so I would probably wait until the next book in the series comes out (I usually like to wait until the series is finished so I can read them straight through)
At the end of this book the next book title was reveled as The Redemption of Callie and Kayden. There is no release date yet but it is expected (by the author) to be released some time this year.
Teaser to the second book is available on Jessica Sorensens blog
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