☆☆BOOK REVIEW☆☆
Book: Counting Stars
Author: Alannah Carbonneau
Series: Donnelley Brothers #1
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Reviewer: Tricia Reads
Stars (Os): 4.5 OOOOo’s (O’s for Orgasms)
WOW! I received an ARC for an honest review of this book. I did not know when accepting Counting Stars that the author lives in my home province of Alberta, Canada or that the book location was in my favourite place in the world, Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. It is an amazing book about two lost souls finding each other while both healing.
Reese and Derek were high school sweethearts who fate tore apart in a sudden accident leaving Reese alone to learn how to living on her own without her soul mate. Finding an ad for a mountain retreat, Reese chooses to leave the city behind to find herself by roughing it with an outfitter in the Alberta wilderness for one month.
Logan is a rough around the edges and grumpy man. Reese is a lost soul trying learn how to live again. Logan not only teaches Reese how to survive in the wilderness but also helps her mourn and heal while teaching her how to live again.
The author writes a beautiful but emotional love story that will definitely pull your heartstrings. I eagerly await the other brother’s stories.
Amazon’s description:
Counting Stars is an emotionally charged romance about love and loss – and learning to live after everything you’ve lived for has died.
I was with him for six years. Derek was my life, my future, and my dream come true. We had it all – the house, the cars, rings on our fingers, and we were even discussing a baby. Derek was my high school sweetheart, my lover, and my best friend.
Derek is dead.
At only twenty-two years old I am a widow. I’ve spent the last year of my life filtering through self-help books – searching for a way to heal the remnants of my heart.
I am broken.
It is my incessant searching that leads me to booking a month long trip with The Donnelley’s Wild Land Tour’s. I was supposed to tour with Gracie – but she is incapacitated and she’s left me in Logan’s care. If I could, I would turn and walk away from this tour. But I can’t. This is my last chance at learning to live again.
Logan doesn’t know I’m broken. When he looks at me, I feel strong again. I feel alive. He pushes me to learn new things, to experience new ways, and to fight. Logan, in all his bluntness has taught me to fight for what I want and what I believe in. I don’t know how it happened, but Logan picked up the pieces of my heart and helped me to rebuild it. In him, I’ve found acceptance in the hardest thing I had to face.
We all have a path, and for me, my path has been beautifully painful. I was fated; both blessed and cursed, to love two men with the entirety of my heart. Looking back, I wouldn’t change a day, because the pain of the lost life I had with Derek led me to the beautiful present I cherish with Logan.
***This novel does NOT end in a cliffhanger. It is a heartwarming romance for everyone who loves a happy ending. This is the first of four novels – each novel will feature a different Donnelley Brother. This can be read as a stand-alone!***
About the Author:
I live in Alberta, Canada, where the weather is forever changing (without warning). I am engaged to be married in August 2015 to my high school sweetheart and love of my life. There are no children in my life as of right now, but we do have a handful of rambunctious cats (four) and a testy, rescued Shepard/Husky, who take up a lot of my time.
Ever since I can remember, I’ve adored the written word. English was always my favorite class and that may be biased because I can’t count to save my life, so math was a horror! I remember the very first novel I ever read, Shocking Pink by Erica Spindler. It was the most interesting of the covers on my mom’s bookshelf (probably because it was pink) and I was way too young to be reading that novel. But I fell in love. From there, I read almost everything from V.C. Andrews.
My writing started out as poetry, which then evolved to songs, and later into novels. I was never one for the short stories as I found it too difficult to pack everything I imagined into something so small. I now have fourteen novels published independently. I write both novels for young adults and novels for adults – all romance.
Despite my favorite younger reading material, I now adore writing and reading all things romance.
Author Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alannahbooks
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23257672-counting-stars
Goodreads Author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6964910.Alannah_Carbonneau
Website: http://alannahcarbonneau.com/
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