"His whole life Carter’s fought to hold it together: To help Mom run their store. To be there for his special needs sister, Sara, and be the perfect boyfriend Mel wants. To dominate on the basketball court—the only place he ever feels free. And to carry Mom up the stairs when she’s too smashed to make it on her own.
It isn't like she has a problem. Mom loves them. If she doesn't drink every day, she's not really an alcoholic, right?
Wrong.
Then Kira Dawson, a girl with a bipolar wardrobe and rotating hairstyles comes to town. Somehow, she sees the truths he hides from the world. “You have skeletons, too, Carter Shaw. Don’t think I don’t know it.” For the first time, he wants someone to see his inner scars—to really know him.
When his mom finally goes too far, will Carter be able to man-up, even if it means turning his back on her and stepping out from behind the façade he’s fought so hard to keep in place?" -Goodreads
So I rated this one an amazing 5 stars on goodreads.
I'm really starting to love Nyrae Dawn, she doesn't make her romance books sappy and love stricken and just plain frustrating.
This whole book is really about Carter which is weird with it being a romance novel but not that its bad. In fact its quite refreshing, We don't get a look into Kira's head like you do in most books, and in reality thats not a bad thing. Shes a wonderful person and we get all we need to know out of her just by the descriptions Nyrae gives of her. Now Carter is very smart and his head is always full and running through things and thinking about things. I have to give props because she makes the whole book kind of crazy and make sense at the same time. She lets us into Carters head which is a cluster fuck of thinking and trying to solve issues and we get the idea that hes confused and stressed and can't stay thinking about one thing back and forth... and yet its clear it makes sense it isn't just a mess of words, its really interesting how she made everything fit. I love it when a writer and consistantly write good books, not just one, not just the same series... but a different range and style of books and each of them be good.
I deffinetly suggest this book to everyone. Didn't make me cry but it was a story worth hearing and it was eloquently written.
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