5 stars
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Chase and
Ben are one. No really, they are those twins that feel each others emotions,
the pain, the happiness, all of it. They are connected, whether they want to
be or not. They play their roles, but during the course of the book they
realize they are not two halves of one whole, they are two wholes that need
the other. They need the other to help them regulate, because they are prone
to extremes. They need the other balance, because they are prone to get unbalanced.
They need the other to be happy, because being apart makes them miserable.
Over the course of the book, they realize they need Natalie to keep them
sane, because, well, they tend to get tangled in their own tangents when they
go off on them
It isn’t
easy reading a story about someone who has been violated, hurt, abused, and
destroyed in so many ways. Natalie made my heart ache, Logan asking for
advice from Natalie made by heart ache, my breath seize, and my brain shut
down. Natalie’s answer though, that was the moment you knew she was herself,
the new her, that took her life from before, and her life during, and was
making a new life not for after, but for now. I couldn’t have loved a character
more than Nat at that time, and my heart couldn’t have hurt more than it did
for Logan at that moment.
This really
is a story about three people becoming the person they need to be now. Ben
always thought he had to be the good, sane, and happy twin. He learns he can
be bad, crazy, and grumpy. Chase always thought he was the downer, the
logical, and the socially awkward twin. He learns he can be happy, act out,
and get along with people, when needed. Natalie thought she had lost the
innate part of herself due to her kidnapping and torture. She learned she
could trust and find herself core again, and she wasn’t going to be robbed of
anything because of a madman.
Of course,
we get the crew. Julian, Finn, and Dani have their progeny. Logan and Georgia
have their meet cute, and it is awesome. We travel to Willow Fork, and you
know what that means - "Apparently he twisted a couple of vertebrae
trying to get Olivia out of a tree. She was rebelling against carrots. She
doesn’t like carrots." and then I instantly felt a bond with little Olivia
Barnes-Fleetwood, because carrots do indeed suck! I don’t think I will ever
stop fan girl squeeing everytime Jack Barnes shows up in a Siren book, and I hope
I never have to. That man is the epitome of….. well, just everything, alpha,
Dom, sweet, caring, tender, tough, protective, funny, loving, decisive, just,
well everything <3
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