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Well....she's done it again. Talk about two characters that were a hot mess. Holy Hell, Batman!
Lyrick and Tamar were both fighting their own pretty serious demons. They built walls and protected themselves they only way they knew how. For Tamar, it was developing a persona that pushed people away even though she was crushed by loneliness. Lyrick used his rock star status to pick from the hordes of women that would throw themselves at him. It wasn't until the two of them caught sight of each other that their careful crafted walls and defense mechanisms came crashing down.
Despite his a-holish ways, it was hard not to like Lyrik. Especially when he began to help Tamar deal with the everything that had happened to her. You saw all those traits that had Tamar falling for him. Even when he would push Tamar away with hurtful words and actions, you knew he was fighting against his own demons, brought forth by his feelings for Tamar. I certainly didn't agree with what he was doing, but I could understand he was hurting and the only way he could deal with that hurt was to push away the one person he thought was causing the hurt.
Tamar had an unbelievable inner strength. Even though she thought she was broken and she hid behind her walls. She had escaped her ordeal. No matter what else she had done, she had survivied. She couldn't see that until Lyrik. And like two kindred souls, she saw his pain too. Trying to get him to share and let it go. But Lyrik ended up being the stronger of the two. As much as that almost broke her, she knew she couldn't go back to who she was prior to Lyrik turning her world upside down.
This was a truly touching story of forgiveness. For these two, it was about forgiving themselves. Because until that happened, neither one of them was going to ever find their happily ever after.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 22 March, 2016: Finished reading
- 22 March, 2016: Reviewed