In an attempt to look for ways to deal with her grief, Alana reaches out to Dakota’s older brother Mikah, who’s struggling with moving on himself.
Both damaged beyond repair, neither Alana or Mikah know how to cope with their loss. What’s worse, they have zero ideas of how to handle the unexpected feelings they start developing for each other.
MY REVIEW:
Unfortunately, somewhere in this nation,
there is another senseless act just like this one. Sad to say sometimes multiple in a day. The moment I started reading my heart started
racing and I wanted to put it down. At
the same time, I could not stop reading.
Having a friend who was in the face of
such a senseless crime. I can tell you
the author did a great job of bringing us the reader along through a fraction
of the sheer hell victims go through.
This book shows the seven stages of grief
for sure though several of the characters who are at different starting
points. Makes it difficult for them to
relate to each other. Don’t worry though
you will see the progression toward healing.
Because can you really ever recover from
such a senseless act especially when it takes so many lives? Hell, can we take but one of our loved ones
passing? I think not now amp that up in
mass.
This author has Alana who is eighteen
along with her grade school friend Jess who gets her to go to a concert where
they meet some guys in a band. Jess
starts dating Luke the drummer. Alana
catches the eye of twenty-three-year-old Dakota Bennett, the lead and frontman
for the band. Along with his older
brother Mikah, twenty-five, and Blaze who are also in the band.
Three months into their relationship they
are to play at a bigger venue so of course, the girls will be there. Even if all this time in order to get out
Alana has had to lie to her overly religious parents that she was staying at
Jess’s house. She will do it again in a
heartbeat to go. So, her parents know
nothing. She’s going to hell.
Dakota is the direct line to hell as far
as her parents are concerned. The guys
start their set. She is so proud of him
Dakota has been voted number five on Portland’s Guitar Players Watch for list
for 2019. When Alana hears him hit a
wrong note. Then another. When she turns and she hears BANG! BANG!
BANG! Her life changed in an instant.
You will not want to miss this story. You might feel that Alana appears stuck and
whinny and not willing to move on. It’s
not that. She can’t. Look at her support system at home, her
friend is a survivor too coping as best they can, and her boyfriend is
gone.
She is only eighteen and confused. All that’s left is the one man who won’t talk
to her, yet she knows what she feels around him.
I give this: 5++++ stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at www.1rad-readerreview.com.
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