4 out of 5 stars 
 This review also appears on my blog at: http://redhotbluereads.blogspot.com/2014/01/4-stars-for-destiny-of-violet-and-luke.html 
 It's really tough to talk about this book without spoiling, but I'm going to try to do just that. If this review seem cryptic, that's why. 
 Yet another story about surviving with Callie and Kayden's college roommates as the main characters. Violet's family was murdered when she was six, and she's been bounced from foster home to foster home. She's learned to deal, and she carries her pain silently. She's build a protective wall around herself so she doesn't feel it. She doesn't really have any friends, besides a creepy foster parent 
 Luke had a cruddy childhood too. His parents are divorced, his mom a drug addict. She asks him do things that no parent should ask their child. He deals with his emotional pain with alcohol and promiscuous sex. He's got a big wall around him too. 
 Both Luke and Violet have found their own safety zone until one night when they meet. Everything changes for both of them and over the course of many chapters they begin a to gradually open up to each other. It isn't an easy path. Their blossoming relationship is marred by a terrible secret, which is divulged to the reader early on in the book. It's like watching a car wreck in slow motion as they grow closer to each other and choose to make changes for the better in their lives. You just know it's gonna be bad when that secret gets revealed, and Jessica Sorensen does a good job of lifting these two up, only for them to be dashed to the rocks again. 
 The ending left me with so many questions and heartache. What will Luke do with the information he now has? What will Violet do about it? And can they recover from these revelations before their lives go completely down the tubes? 
 I like the gritty and extremely emotional stories in this series. Violet and Luke kept me turning the page to the end. If you like a dark and emotional read, this may be for you. 
 Unfortunately, there is no release date for a follow-up to this, and the author has not mentioned any release for the next book in 2014. (Correction: Jessica Sorensen just posted today 1/9/2014 a release date of May 2014 for the next book in this series.) 
 Thanks to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review.