Twin Opinions: LISA'S REVIEW: Never To Keep (Aimie Grey)

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

LISA'S REVIEW: Never To Keep (Aimie Grey)

Madison Miller is broken. Everyone she’s loved throughout her life has left her in one way or another. Her father died when she was ten years old. Her mother left to return to Spain. Now she’s watching her only brother’s casket descend into the ground after a fatal accident. Plus her boyfriend since the sixth grade is dumping her for “not being enough”.

Madison escapes from the funeral, heading to a hotel bar to drown her sorrows. There she meets a stranger who awakens something inside of her. He helps her forget that life is a series of losses. For one night she gains someone to care for her. In those stolen moments, nothing else matters. The next morning, though, all she can feel is guilt, so she slips away without saying goodbye.

Madison is devoted to those she loves and would do anything for her family. She finds herself moving back home when her brother’s widow needs help caring for their seven-year-old daughter. Little does she know, she will soon face the biggest challenge of her life.

In the near future, fate will have their paths cross again, and the question will be whether this complicated but caring woman can convince this distrustful and disillusioned man to believe in falling in love for the first time in his life. Will passion and desire be enough to surmount all of life’s obstacles, or will the threat of heartache and overwhelming responsibility keep these two lovers apart forever?

Review:

Madison is a broken woman. Boy is that true. I feel so much for her. She has such a hard past to live with and yet this strong woman does. She is an amazing character. It has been a long time since I have felt emotions so strongly with a character. WOW. Grey did a fantastic job in creating a character that was easy to relate to and live her life right along with her. This is a story of recovery, learning to live with the loss and pain, then learning to love. Way to much other drama in there that kinda takes away from the story. I tried not to let it hold me back though.The other characters were almost too much at times. Ethan is a mess and Madison really should just walk away completely. Sawyer needs a good slap up side the head a few times. But, overall a really good book. Loads of drama and pain, but if you get past all of that, it is a really good love story.

Rating:

Aimie Grey didn’t read a single book until she was in her early thirties. One fateful day, her friend decided to put an end to the madness and shoved a steamy romance novel under Aimie’s nose. After being forced to read one of “those” scenes, Aimie went home and bought the book, and the next one, and the one after that. In the two years since, Aimie has read close to four hundred books. Somewhere along the way, she became frustrated with reading repetitive stories revolving around the experienced man seducing the still virginal woman. Aimie decided to take matters into her own hands and wrote her debut full length erotic romance novel Never to Keep.

In addition to her day job as an IT system administrator, and her new evening gig as a writer, Aimie’s primary role in life is wife and mother. Aimie lives in the Midwest with her husband and two teenage daughters.