You don’t read about the characters, you are the characters. All you need to do is close your eyes, and you’re transported to another world, another life, another dimension, in which your acne clears, your crops grow, your boss gives you a raise and your student loans simply vanish. Whose descriptions are vividly painted on your eyelids. Whose characters take residence in your heart. If you’re lucky, once in a lifetime (or more than once, but that’s if you personally robbed the remaining 7B people of their chance at luck), you stumble upon an author whose words speak to your soul.

“I’d follow this man to the fiery gates of hell if he just held my hand.” You know when you read a book and everything, from the writing, to the characters, romance, just everything works for you and you have that stupid lovesick smile from beginning to end? The only time you’re hurting is when you realize you’re nearing the end of the book, and that just breaks your heart? And once you finish and close the book, you take a deep breath and smile wistfully while thinking to yourself what a time to be alive and what a way to end a truly shitty year? This was that book for me. This was everything I wanted and much, much, more.

I have a plethora of commitment issues and, usually, I can’t read past 2/3 books of a series before they come out full force, but for this series? ᶜᵒᵐᵐⁱᵗᵐᵉⁿᵗ ⁱˢˢᵘᵉˢ?Īny-always-rambling way, back to the book. So, anyone who knows me knows this is one of my all time favorite series.

The sweetest temptation danielle lori