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“My sweet Blaire. She had shown up and stolen a piece of my heart without opening her mouth. Then she’d consumed me. Taken it all. I had let her have it freely.”
And we have a winner!!!!!
Sadly, my experience with authors rewriting their books from boy POV has been a bit hit and miss. That’s why I am thrilled to say that Abbi Glines has done a wonderful job with this one! It’s Rush Finlay in all of his glory, and it is fantastic!
While we are essentially getting a retelling of Fallen Too Far, there is a whole lot of new material in this one, and even though pivotal scenes are repeated, a lot of the story is more behind the scenes sort of stuff – Rush’s interactions with other characters, his take on things with Blaire and, of course, his inner monologue, which I absolutely loved! Rush is an interesting character – spoiled, sexy, rude and crude – so getting the opportunity to be inside of his head in that period when Blaire comes into his life and turns it upside down, and all the chemistry that goes along with it, is sensational!
The fact that I was suddenly glad that I was shirtless wasn’t good. I shouldn’t care that she was staring at my chest like she wanted a lick. Fuck. Fuck. No! She didn’t want to lick my chest. Where the hell had that idea come from?
Rush is quite the jerk at the beginning of Fallen Too Far, and he and Blaire don’t spend a whole lot of time together, so I particularly loved getting his POV during that part so we could see what was really going on, and just how intensely he was feeling at such an early stage of the story.
There were no rules where Blaire was concerned. She was on a higher plane, above any rules I had when it came to women. I just wanted her.
I love his attempts to keep Blaire at a distance, knowing that his big secret will tear her apart, while at the same time his protective nature over her from the very beginning is gorgeous. I love the way he constantly warned the rest of the boys off. Hilarious!
I tore my gaze off Blaire to see him staring down at her just as reverently as I was. Fuck that.
“Don’t look,” I snapped…
Grant let out a laugh. “What the hell does that mean, ‘Don’t look’?”
It meant not to fucking look.Woods walked into the kitchen and swung his gaze to me. “You don’t deserve her,” he said coldly.
“Neither do you,” I replied.“Why are you ordering food? We’re here to drink and dance with cowboys. Not eat,” Bethy said angrily.
She could fuck off.
But in the end his feelings are too strong him to resist, and holy hotness!! You thought Rush was hot from Blaire’s POV, just wait until you get into this boy’s head. DAYUM!
God, she had me. That was it. She had me. I couldn’t let her go. Not now. I was owned.
And Grant, OMG, I love Grant! He is also protective of Blaire, but in the ‘pushing her together with Rush’ kind of way that made me love him even more.
Grant met me in the hallway. “She’s hurt. Go fix it,” he said, shooting me an annoyed look as he walked past me and back to the party.
I also feel like I came to understand Rush’s tolerance of Nan more, and I felt so awful for him and the guilt he felt for the way Nan was. But Nan was still a bitch of epic proportions – moreso than we realise in the other books, actually! Her constant whining had me feeling mighty stabby, and God, I wish she’d just go away!
But this is Rush’s story, and he tells it beautifully! The way he falls for Blaire is beautiful, and his absolute and total devotion to her had me swooning madly.
“Doesn’t sound like she’s alone anymore”…
“She’s not. She never will be. I’ll always be there for her. I’ll keep her safe. I’ll take care of her. She will always have me.
This book covers the exact timeframe of Fallen Too Far, including that epically painful cliffy – and let me tell you, from Rush’s POV… OUCH! It’s a great read for fans of this series, I enjoyed every moment of it.
4 Rush-loving stars.
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