*****5 Stars*****
This is book 3 in the series but can be read as a stand alone.
I've never read any of the books in the series previously to this, or for that fact from this author. But I'm so glad I did!!
Let me just say, this is not a typical book that I would pick up on my own. When I skimmed the blurb, I volunteered to give this a go.
In this book we have Noah, he's an adrenaline junkie.
If it's jumping out of a plane, sky diving, skiing down a mountain slope he's there. Until one of those super stunts changed his whole life in every way possible.
Then we have Charlotte, she's on her way to her dream after graduating in music from Julliard. She plays her violin straight from her heart with feelings that pump through her soul.
That is until one earth shattering event in her life changed all that.
I don't want to give anything away about this book. So my review will be vague. This is like no Coming of Age book I've read before. These characters didn't make me cringe or roll my eyes (I know shocking). They had this amazing story of trying to rebuild your life when you think you honestly just want to crawl away and think you have nothing else to hold you together....
However it wasn't a pity party, it was so realistic the way things just happened and came together. I could actually see myself feeling the way these characters did, with the same realistic reactions.
We didn't need the normal love triangles, added friends drama or any of the normal stuff that's in these type of books.
Even the side characters, you can't help but love most of them too. They all just fit. This story just worked all the way around.
It was just real!!
These characters and writing stand out on their own. If there is any Coming of Age book you're going to read this year, make it with Noah and Charlotte.
I will for sure read this author again and so should you.
I've never read any of the books in the series previously to this, or for that fact from this author. But I'm so glad I did!!
Let me just say, this is not a typical book that I would pick up on my own. When I skimmed the blurb, I volunteered to give this a go.
In this book we have Noah, he's an adrenaline junkie.
If it's jumping out of a plane, sky diving, skiing down a mountain slope he's there. Until one of those super stunts changed his whole life in every way possible.
Then we have Charlotte, she's on her way to her dream after graduating in music from Julliard. She plays her violin straight from her heart with feelings that pump through her soul.
That is until one earth shattering event in her life changed all that.
I don't want to give anything away about this book. So my review will be vague. This is like no Coming of Age book I've read before. These characters didn't make me cringe or roll my eyes (I know shocking). They had this amazing story of trying to rebuild your life when you think you honestly just want to crawl away and think you have nothing else to hold you together....
However it wasn't a pity party, it was so realistic the way things just happened and came together. I could actually see myself feeling the way these characters did, with the same realistic reactions.
We didn't need the normal love triangles, added friends drama or any of the normal stuff that's in these type of books.
Even the side characters, you can't help but love most of them too. They all just fit. This story just worked all the way around.
It was just real!!
These characters and writing stand out on their own. If there is any Coming of Age book you're going to read this year, make it with Noah and Charlotte.
I will for sure read this author again and so should you.
Reviewed by Amy Kormanik-Jones
Synopsis
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. --John Milton
Charlotte Conroy, Juilliard-trained violinist, was on the cusp of greatness when tragedy swooped down on dark wings, crushing her hopes and breaking her heart. The music that used to sing in her soul has grown quiet, and she feels on the verge of setting down her violin for good. To pay the bills, she accepts a job as a personal assistant to a bitter, angry young man who’s been disabled by a horrific accident …
Noah Lake was an extreme sport athlete, journalist and photographer. He roamed the world in search of his next adrenaline high, until a cliff-dive left him in a coma. He awakes to find his career gone, his dreams shattered to pieces, his world an endless blackness that will never lift.
Charlotte begins to see that beneath Noah’s angry, brittle exterior is a young man in a pain. She is determined to show him that his life isn’t over, that he has so much to live for, never dreaming that she would become the only light in his darkness, or that he would help her find the music in hers.
The life he knew is over. The life she wants is just out of reach.
Together, they must face their fears and rediscover what it means to really live.
RUSH is Book III in the City Lights Series, and each can be read as a standalone.
Charlotte Conroy, Juilliard-trained violinist, was on the cusp of greatness when tragedy swooped down on dark wings, crushing her hopes and breaking her heart. The music that used to sing in her soul has grown quiet, and she feels on the verge of setting down her violin for good. To pay the bills, she accepts a job as a personal assistant to a bitter, angry young man who’s been disabled by a horrific accident …
Noah Lake was an extreme sport athlete, journalist and photographer. He roamed the world in search of his next adrenaline high, until a cliff-dive left him in a coma. He awakes to find his career gone, his dreams shattered to pieces, his world an endless blackness that will never lift.
Charlotte begins to see that beneath Noah’s angry, brittle exterior is a young man in a pain. She is determined to show him that his life isn’t over, that he has so much to live for, never dreaming that she would become the only light in his darkness, or that he would help her find the music in hers.
The life he knew is over. The life she wants is just out of reach.
Together, they must face their fears and rediscover what it means to really live.
RUSH is Book III in the City Lights Series, and each can be read as a standalone.
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Absolutely loved this book! It was my first book by Emma as well, I have the other 2 in the series to read now, but I don't know how they'lll ever compare to Charlotte and Noah! I can't wait for his novella.
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