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It’s been a while since I’ve been on such an intense
emotional roller coaster journey through what I would consider a great
book. I found myself completely
engrossed in this story by the 3% mark, which I consider a pretty rare
fete. It’s definitely not your typical
New Adult book where you’ll find a tattoo covered, swoon-worthy bad boy who
falls in love with a virgin beauty whose hiding some dark secret, opens up to
said boy, they fall in love, make each other better people with fuller lives
all while discovering the wonderful world of sexuality. Tally Landon and Lincoln Presley don’t
entirely fit those descriptions and their story definitely isn’t that cut and
dry.
Lincoln Presley, 22, is a star college baseball player
who’s being scouted by the major leagues and on his way to stardom. He lives for baseball, its all he thinks
about and all he has time for. Tally
Landon, 17, is an aspiring ballet dancer on her way to being a famous prima
ballerina. She also lives for dance,
lives for the chance to achieve her dream, and like Linc her passion is all she
thinks about or has time for. Neither
one can afford to let anything stand in the way of their dreams so throughout
the book they each make choices and decisions in their lives often based off of
their shared fears of falling, failing and losing, which they believe
ultimately will allow them to reach their desired goals.
One Valentine’s Day a chance encounter in the form of a
tragic accident allows fate it’s first opportunity to intertwine the lives of Lincoln and Tally when he saves her. This brief
brush with fate changes them both as individuals and seemingly alters the
course of their lives. Lincoln cannot
shake the “image of her beautiful devastated face and haunting green emerald
green eyes” he has no idea as to her name but desperately wants to know how she
is and frantically searches for her in all the hospitals nearby. Even months later he cannot get her out of
his mind. The accident has left Tally
grief-stricken and her loss seems to follow her everywhere, she knows life must
go on yet she cannot seem to figure out how.
She focuses all her energy into ballet and following the plan she once
made with her twin sister Holly.
Tally desperately needs a break from her life so she agrees
to accompany her best friend Marla (who is like a sister and always gives her a never ending supply of love, support an encouragement and who I found to be a very vital and lovable character) to a college party, one where no one will
know of her or the tragedy. However,
fate again plays its part holding the party at Lincoln Presley’s cousin’s house.
It’s at the party Lincoln and Tally officially meet. Calling him Elvis, Tally immediately finds herself attracted to
him and he makes her feel things and open up in ways she never has before. In the continued effort to escape her past
she pretends to be her sister Holly, it’s her first lie. Lincoln, realizing she has no recognition of
him but wanting to know more about her, makes the decision to spend time with
her, to at least find out her name, but he also decides not to reveal he knows
the grief and darkness of her past. His
first lie is one of omission.
As the night goes on Tally continues the lies even though at
times she oddly finds herself being more truthful with him than anyone else
ever before. Tally and Elvis connect
not only in a physical way but also on a deep emotional level. It’s just one night and in the morning life
goes on, hers with ballet and his with baseball, absolutely nothing must keep
them from their potentials and subsequently their dreams. But what if it isn’t just one night, what if
this connection with one another won’t go away? As their lives move forward fate continues it game.
This couldn’t have been an easy story to write because it
wasn’t always an easy one to read about, especially when you find yourself
completely vested in each character’s happiness. I was an emotional wreck, sometimes from anticipating the train
wrecks their lies and decisions were causing and sometimes from being floored
when outcomes I never dreamed of happening were transpiring.
Tally and Lincoln are genuine characters with real flaws and
real imperfections. They’re young and
they struggled to fully to see how small decisions and innocent lies affected
their lives and ultimately their happiness.
When fame came for each of them life only seemed to get harder. The road to fame isn’t an easy one and in
the case of Lincoln and Tally it was one full of regrets. Katherine Owen did such an amazing job
highlighting each of their careers and the sacrifices they made to ensure not
only their success but also the successes of each other.
Tally makes some really tough choices in this book. It was interesting to see how the accident
and her eventual transformation afterwards affected the decisions she was
making. The book tackles so many hard
themes but it’s written so beautifully.
I literally lost track of time.
I started the book late one afternoon and didn’t put it down until
I was finished at 1:00am. It’s the next
day and I still cannot get it off my mind.
From their first interaction it was obvious to me these two were meant
for each other and while it took so long for them to each find their way back I
never lost hope they would get their HEA.
Their ending is beautiful. I can
honestly say when I finished the book I didn’t have any lingering questions,
their story wrapped up perfectly without any loose ends.
It’s been months since I felt so emotionally impacted by a
book, I highly recommend you give This Much Is True a chance. It's not just a love story it's a life story about learning to love yourself first. This story is so much more than you can imagine or
than I ever expected.
It’s been a while since our last giveaway so we decided it
was time for another one. Romance
Rewind will gift 2 Kindle Ebook copies of This Much Is True. Hurry and enter below, winners will be chosen on Saturday, that’s
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