This is the kind of book, that a review simply cannot do justice.... I need to process and recover, yet I need to get my words down on paper! 
 The absolute need to possess someone, to be the air they breathe and the universe they live in - I feel both powerful and powerless at once. 
 This is the second book from Saffron A. Kent, and she has yet again written another book that has sent me crazy. She has sent my mind on a wild ride of uncertainty, obsession and emotion. Again, I don't know how I feel! It's the kind of book that instils so many different feelings into your soul, that you don't know what the right reactions to them are. 
 This book gave me chills and warmed me at the same time. I loved it, yet there were elements I should have hated (but I really didn't). I wanted to scream, I wanted to cry, but I also wanted to smile. And this book really did leave me smiling in so many places, yet it ruined me as well. 
 From the very first page this story drew me in with the words and the storyline. I was addicted from the beginning, and felt like I was gasping for breath throughout. The words are written in such a way, that I forgot I was reading a book, a story, and felt that the author was the main character. In turn this made me will the main character to do certain things, make particular choices and write about specific things... It totally swept me up and blew me away! 
 The characters in this story were simply AMAZING!! Thomas and Layla are beautiful, broken, complex characters. Both individuals have so much to offer, with so many layers and so much intensity to them both. Thomas frustrated me SO MUCH at times. I didn't know if I wanted to hug him or give him a kick to sort himself out. Layla is lovely, and I absolutely love her inquisitive nature. 
 The steamy scenes between the characters are superb. The overall plot and storyline to this book is so original, so well developed and so unique. This book is about BRAVERY! It is raw, gritty, brutal and punishing. The further through the book I read, the more intense the words and the story became. The anxiety I felt whilst reading, built up and increased, page by page... It is wrong, and forbidden. It is testing. Crossing lines that shouldn't be crossed. 
 Many will hate this book (they shouldn't, but they will). It's the kind of book that readers will make assumptions about, and rule it out immediately... but they MUST NOT!!! 
 READ. THIS. BOOK.... 
 Please, give it a go and see through the forbidden, see through the gritty, and bask in the beauty instead... This story really is an amazing, intricate and EPIC piece of writing. The stunning, powerful words are like poetry itself. 
 ...bravery is not the absence of fear, but the courage to do something despite it. 
 Quite honestly, this author has not only ruined me through the words and beauty from these pages, she is slowly ruining me for all other authors as well... Saffron A. Kent has fast become one of my all time favourite authors and I cannot wait for whatever she brings us next!!! 
 ***** 5+++ STARS ***** 
 Lou 
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