5
I-Can’t-Breathe Stars!
I
do not even know where to start with all of the thoughts and emotions that are plaguing
me right now. How about with the synopsis (provided by goodreads)
Forever Innocent by Deanna Roy
"Our baby died on prom night, and
nothing was ever the same again."
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the
other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her
life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator
from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked
out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral
of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out
whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy
class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she
forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty
ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if
he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love
completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she
was innocent.
Okay,
insert of biased opinion: I am a mother of a beautiful 4 year old girl and I
have never known the life of my second child so this book really hit me hard
and I cried a lot.
Now,
that aside, I know any compassionate person, a lover of romance, a believer in
second chances, or someone dealing with harder-than-most things in life will
enjoy this book.
Corabelle
is a strong person, but almost to the point of unemotional. She doesn’t let
others get close to her for fear of them finding out the truth about her past.
Gavin
walked out on his childhood best friend and one true love just to end up with
prostitutes and the ten year plan for college. No attachments, no emotions.
When
these two find themselves in the same class four years after losing everything,
their reunion and attempts to not crumble again are heartbreaking yet hope
fulfilling. Their love and connection is absolutely amazing and the life they
had planned for themselves and Finn is one to be envied and one to mourn when
it was all ripped away.
I
find this storyline to be incredibly realistic and not a tragic story placed in
a magical fairy tale setting where everything is fixed easily. Nothing fixes
this easily. It is a long road of healing and Deanna demonstrates that magnificently
in her writing of Corabelle and Gavin. I cannot wait to read the second
installment, Forever Loved.
A Must Read!
(I
received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley for my review and this is my
honest-to-goodness, straight from the heart review!)
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