Cocktails and Books
Written on Oct 28, 2015
Hawke, Hawke, Hawke. How utterly broken you were and how blind-sided I was to that fact.
If you've read any of the Sphere of Irony series, you probably know there is a pattern to each band members. They each have a huge issue that needs to be dealt with before they can find their HEA. What I didn't expect was for Heather Leigh to wait until the last freaking book to pull out the almost completely broken alpha male that would almost break me.
Hawke was always the quiet member of Sphere of Irony. Happy to stay in the background, I never picked up on anything really be "wrong" with him...even in Gavin's book. But I soon discovered Hawke was all kinds of messed up and that left me wondering how in the hell he managed to crawl out of bed and function in the band. It broke my heart to see the man that devastated seventeen year old boy turned into and how he had gone as long as he did before he finally realized he needed serious help to pull himself together. It was sad, heartbreaking and many times frustrating.
Abby gave Hawke enough reasons to try and fix what was broken in him, but Abby was almost as bad as Hawke. She too suffered something horrible at seventeen that forward changed her world. And as a fixer, Abby took another path in her attempt to make amends for what happened. She became a psychologist to help people, except she never took the time to take a look at herself to understand what she was doing. But Abby finally saw what she was doing (it only took about 7 heart tramplings before she did) and took the steps to get better. It made it easier to want Abby to find happiness, somewhere, when she stopped being a doormat for Hawke.
This was a very challenging book to get through. Hawke's emotional state often had me on the same roller coaster Abby was on. There were times when I had to put my kindle down and walk away for a minute because Hawke or Abby did or said something that made me mad. But when I got to that moment where Hawke finally understood what he was doing to himself, his band mates, his uncle and to Abby, it made the emotional journey worth it.
Heather C. Leigh once again brings us a stellar story. It pushed the envelope for me, but it was the perfect ending to a series that has been an absolute pleasure to read.