My Torin

by K Webster

• ISBN10: 1981888543
• ISBN13: 9781981888542
• Publish Date: 22 December 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 308
• Language: English

Reviews

[stacey_is_sassy]

Curiosity left me feeling depressed…

This review is a little spoilerish, proceed with caution.

I KNOW I’m supposed to take a step away from reality when reading, but sometimes it’s very hard to shut off my brain. My Torin left me a little unsettled. This story is filled with battles and at times I was shattered by the feelings it provoked. The cover caught my attention, the reviews were describing it as a beautiful story, and along with the blurb, my curiosity needed to be appeased. Maybe the beauty other readers found was in the survival of the heroine. It might have been beautiful, that the hero broke through some barriers that held him in isolation. I struggled to see the beauty through the windows. There were no windows.

I read a lot of different types of romance stories and I can appreciate the differences. I admit I’m a sucker for a happy ever after and I enjoy the bubbles of joy and heart-flutters that a good romance can provide. This romance left me dissatisfied because I felt that it should never have happened. A crack whore should not leave a baby abandoned. Men should not be able to sell off a foster child and get away with it. People should not be able to buy a person to fix a problem without explaining what the problem is first. I know these things happen in reality but it was confronting and I didn't enjoy the feelings it provoked.

This was my first story by K. Webster. Maybe, if I had read some of her previous books I would have been better prepared? I wouldn’t say this was a “dark” read or a “light” read. It would be easier to say that this is a story about finding love when you’re a freak, misfit or an odd end. My Torin deals with death, discrimination, fear and abuse. It makes you question how much is “OK” to put up with when the person hurting you has a reason. Does it make it OK?

Do not judge My Torin by my review alone. Check out other reviews because I’m seriously in the minority. The subject matter wasn’t appealing to me but I acknowledge that the writing, cover and blurb sucked me in from beginning to end.

[Eve1972]

 
 
Holy Christ on a cracker. My first 5-Star book of 2018 and I don't even know where to begin with this review. I am basically a sobbing emotional mess. I want to hug this book and never let it go. It was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. K's best work to date (IMO). 


 

So I will start off apologizing because this review will be vague. I don't want to give a single minute of this story away. It's a book best gone into blindly. Trust me when I say you will not be sorry. This was fantastically well written. The pace was perfect. The plot was engaging and had me hooked from page one. It was heartbreaking. It was sweet. It was hopeful. Your emotions will be ALL over the place. I can't remember the last time a book legit made me sob uncontrollably. I didn't find this one particularly angsty and there was no OW/OM drama. It's tamer sex wise than some of this author's other books, but that was perfect for this story. The sex scenes we get were suitably hot. There weren't too many secondary characters as the focus was more on the three main ones, but the few that are sprinkled about added good background to the plot. I ADORED all three main characters. OMG...I don't even know where to begin. All three were just brilliantly written. It was very obvious that this author did her research, and she did it well. Last, it was all wrapped up in an ending that AGAIN had me bawling my eyes out. 

Nothing left to say about this one. It was amazing and you would be crazy to give it a pass. With that in mind yours truly will give it two HUGE thumbs (and eight fingers and ten toes) up.