"Sugar, Jules and I had run for our lives. Only our shadows had followed us. And no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't outpace them."
All-around bad boy, and twenty-five-year-old heir to the Jameson fortune, Tommy Jameson, knows three things:
- His family is disappointed in him.
- Overcoming his addictions won't necessarily crush his vices.
- He is wildly in love with Sugar Scarborough, a girl who is dealing with her own addictions and an insatiable need to please.
Danger sends Tommy, Sugar and their friend, Julian Fitzpatrick, a heavily medicated, socially dysfunctional genius, fleeing from Green Willow Recovery Center. Now, together, they will face the outside world and uncover a horrifying mystery while being forced to confront their inner demons
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Tess Oliver is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Freefall.
She is a former teacher, who now dedicates her morning caffeine rush to writing romance instead of teaching math and reading. Tess lives in California, the land of perpetual sunshine and traffic, with her husband, kids and five dogs. She is a longtime romance junkie, who likes her hero to be an alpha with a twist of compassion and if he has long hair and rides a horse or a motorcycle all the better. She writes young adult, new adult and adult romance in both contemporary and historical settings. When she’s not reading or writing romance, she can be found hiking, vacuuming up dog hair or baking goodies for her family.
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This book isn’t what I typically read but the synopsis made
me curious. Turns out it was a great
read. There was intrigue, danger,
romance, and at the end a great love.
The story is told in reverse, everything has already happened and the
one of the main male characters, Tommy is telling it to a friend. The main characters Tommy, Sugar, and Julian
are all in a recovery center. Some
people are there because they have mental problems, some to help them overcome
their drug dependencies. Julian is there
for the first reason, Sugar and Tommy more for the second. Tommy is in love with Sugar but she is the
one drug he won’t let himself have. Then
something horrible happens and they find themselves on the run. Julian finds out some horrible truths about
his past. Sugar and Tommy find that they
can’t stop what they feel for each other anymore. Tommy is discovering things about his friends
that he didn’t know. Tommy is
discovering that he was kind of selfish.
He thought he had the world biggest and most pressing problems. He is learning that isn’t true. His problems aren’t worse than anyone else’s
just different and not even all that different.
They find that being on the run might have turned out to be the best
thing for them. I really enjoyed this
book. I found myself really drawn into
their problems and how they wound up in the recovery center. Sugar’s past was hard. She found herself doing things just to get
the attention of her mother even if it wasn’t good attention. Jules has always had mental problems and then
add to that the feeling of never being enough for your father. Tommy never really had a relationship with his
father. Nothing he ever did was good
enough for his father to be proud of Tommy.
They all had problems and they all were trying to work through them in
different ways. This story was powerful
and hard at times. Reading some of the
things they went through was hard at times.
I would love to read more about these characters. I will be looking for other books by Tess to
read.
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