The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden (Coincidence, #1)

by Jessica Sorensen

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind.

Callie has grown up keeping her feelings locked away from the outside world, and as her painful past threatens to consume her life, most days it's a struggle just to breathe.

For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence has been the only way to survive, until one night when Callie and Kayden's worlds collide.

After that moment, Kayden can't stop thinking about Callie and when they end up at the same college, he does everything in his power to convince her that it isn't coincidence, it's fate.

Lose yourself in the New York Times bestselling sensation that is enchanting readers everywhere -- discover an addictive story filled with unforgettable characters, intense passion and heart-stopping romance.

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This book has wrecked my heart in all of the best possible ways. It's beautiful, dark, and full of tremendous amounts of intense emotion. Seriously, I could not turn my feels off during this one, and it left me aching in so many ways waiting breathlessly for more. [a:Jessica Sorensen|4601855|Jessica Sorensen|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1388093087p2/4601855.jpg], has a knack for writing these gorgeous and compelling novels, that just have the ability to take your breath away and turn you inside out flinging your emotions all over the map. From the second I picked up this novel and started reading, I knew that I didn't want to put it down until I had discovered all of its little hidden secrets and gems that it had to offer. When I was finished with it, I still could not stop thinking about it. I was mystified by everything that it held within the pages, from the story of love, abuse, being afraid to feel anything, being afraid to be loved by someone else, and so many other things it held within the confines of its pages.

Somehow, I instinctively knew, that this would be the start of a tumultuous love affair with a new book series, that I would be embarking on and it's a journey that I knew I wouldn't want to miss out on for the world.

The characters in this story and their lives, are so messed up and complicated, dark and abusive, and terrifying in so many ways that it's unreal at times. From the moment it starts, it just never really stops and then it will leave you hanging in such a way, that you'll want to chuck the book completely across the room until you've realized there's another one to be read after it. These characters, are at best, both likable and unlikable at the same time and that I think is part of their beauty and the charm in this story. It's what makes them more real, in a sense, where it feels like you're experiencing their own personal journey and tragedies as you what them break and fall apart and finally together.

Even if this is Callie and Kayden's story, it isn't always just about them. One thing Jessica Sorensen does, that I have found myself really enjoying, is the way that she incorporates the side characters and develops them in brilliant ways that help them shine on their own, without having to take a backseat to the main characters the novel is focusing on. It is never just about "a story" when it comes to her wonderful and imaginative writing, but it's "multiple stories" all rolled into one and she has this uncanny way of making it all come together and work perfectly. So, when you're reading Callie and Kayden's story, you're also getting small significant glimpses of Luke, and Seth's stories as well. Each of them has their own personal demons that they have to stare down and each of them has their own way of dealing with the shit they've had to endure in their own lives. Yet, all of them rely on one another to each help get the other one through.

Callie and Kayden have broken my heart and stitched the jagged pieces of it back together with twine. Both of them scarred in different ways, yet both of them finding solace and comfort in the other. They fit so well together, that it's absolutely terrifying because it could end up being either good or bad. Everything about their lives and the pain they've had to endure, their battle scars, and the mental anguish they can't seem to let go of defines them in so many ways. It also links them together, gives them a perfect understanding of the other one, knowing that there's someone else out there who's as damaged as them and gets it without having to spell it out.

If you are looking for a book that will offer second chances, a book that is full of emotional turmoil and struggle, something that will eat away at all of your emotions and leave you reeling all over the place then [b:The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden|16113791|The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #1)|Jessica Sorensen|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1353550763s/16113791.jpg|21930423] is the book that you'll want to pick up. The sheer ugliness of what's tackled within these pages and the hope that sparks that very second chance that I mentioned a moment ago, is enough to make this one of the best New Adult contemporary books that I've read in a while. I would personally recommend this series to you, as well as [a:Jessica Sorensen|4601855|Jessica Sorensen|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1388093087p2/4601855.jpg]'s other series. She is a brilliant author with an amazing ability to tell a story in such a realistic way that you feel as if you are inside of the pages yourself experiencing every bit of hell these characters are being put through. If you're looking for a story to stick with you, long after you've turned the pages, this is that story and you won't regret it.

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