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3 1/2 stars
WITH YOU
With You is the love story of Emily (20 year old, somewhat insecure yet strong and resilient virgin, nicknamed Mouse by the hero) and Sculpt/Logan mysterious, sexy and sweet, illegal fighter/wanna be rock star. The "mysterious" comes in because no one knows anything about Sculpt's past and he aims to keep it that way. Only 1 band member even knows his real first name. Obviously this mysteriousness foreshadows the coming of something bad. And this is the problem I have with Sculpt throughout both books that makes me want to throttle him. In his efforts to be protective he follows the "less is more" philosophy. He doesn't want the ugly things in his life to touch Emily. (Personally...I'm more of a "knowledge is power" kind of gal and it seems to me that Sculpt's efforts to protect only make things worse, which is readily apparent in Torn From You).
Anyway, the novella is a really sweet falling in love story and it could be read alone....except for the cliffhanger/shocker ending which sets up Torn From You. I know some people feel Torn From You can be read as a stand alone and you can skip the novella. I'm glad I didn't. I think With You really does a nice job of showing the development of the Emily/Logan relationship and the dynamics between the 2. If I hadn't read With You, I think I would have really hated Logan in the beginning of Torn From You. I mean more than I did, because I did hate him - or at least strongly disliked.
TORN FROM YOU
Overall I enjoyed the story, although at times I felt it dragged a bit and in general felt it could have been a bit shorter. Torn From You picks up where With you left off, and was told in 2 parts - the kidnapping and the aftermath. Emily's experiences at Raul's compound were pretty brutal but luckily not delineated in overly graphic detail. I admit I didn't like Logan much here, although having read With You I knew he was working an angle. My first frustration with him was that it seemed he really could have cut a better deal with regards to Emily's treatment. (Well as it turns out, he really couldn't). My second issue (that I had a very hard time getting past) was his paternalistic decision to keep Emily in the dark to protect her - which it seems to me had the glaringly obvious opposite effect - repeatedly. SPOILER: He kept insisting that in order to be safe, safer, safe-ish, that Emily had to fear him. Well actually no. What Emily needed to do to be safe was to be submissive, subserviant and blend into the background like lint on a rug. Something Emily had an extremely difficult time doing when her emotions were raging with hurt, rage and despair. END SPOILER
The second half of the story takes place 2 years later and has to do with the aftermath of the traumatic events and involves Logan and Emily rebuilding their relationship. SPOILERS:(Which takes awhile because Emily understandably can't forgive him. Because Logan again - in his infinite wisdom - decides he wants to withhold information because he "doesn't want it to taint her". Not sure how to break it to "Mr. not the sharpest crayon in the box" but that train has already left the station. I'm pretty sure that after starvation, beating, torture, degradation and the emotional abuse the love of your life unintentionally heaped upon you - you're already filled to the brim with tainted. The only thing Logan sharing about his fear, helplessness and abuse could have done would have been to help Emily understand the situation and his motives and she could have taken @ 100 less pages to regain her trust in him). So yeah, Logan irked me, then I felt bad for being irked because he did do the best he could, what he thought was right, and he was scared and traumatized and not thinking too clearly too. END SPOILER
I liked the secondary characters and the story sets up the sequel that is already out (Overwhelmed By You) and a couple of other sequels in process. I did think Logan and Eme were a cute couple and it wrapped up with a nice HEA.
WITH YOU
With You is the love story of Emily (20 year old, somewhat insecure yet strong and resilient virgin, nicknamed Mouse by the hero) and Sculpt/Logan mysterious, sexy and sweet, illegal fighter/wanna be rock star. The "mysterious" comes in because no one knows anything about Sculpt's past and he aims to keep it that way. Only 1 band member even knows his real first name. Obviously this mysteriousness foreshadows the coming of something bad. And this is the problem I have with Sculpt throughout both books that makes me want to throttle him. In his efforts to be protective he follows the "less is more" philosophy. He doesn't want the ugly things in his life to touch Emily. (Personally...I'm more of a "knowledge is power" kind of gal and it seems to me that Sculpt's efforts to protect only make things worse, which is readily apparent in Torn From You).
Anyway, the novella is a really sweet falling in love story and it could be read alone....except for the cliffhanger/shocker ending which sets up Torn From You. I know some people feel Torn From You can be read as a stand alone and you can skip the novella. I'm glad I didn't. I think With You really does a nice job of showing the development of the Emily/Logan relationship and the dynamics between the 2. If I hadn't read With You, I think I would have really hated Logan in the beginning of Torn From You. I mean more than I did, because I did hate him - or at least strongly disliked.
TORN FROM YOU
Overall I enjoyed the story, although at times I felt it dragged a bit and in general felt it could have been a bit shorter. Torn From You picks up where With you left off, and was told in 2 parts - the kidnapping and the aftermath. Emily's experiences at Raul's compound were pretty brutal but luckily not delineated in overly graphic detail. I admit I didn't like Logan much here, although having read With You I knew he was working an angle. My first frustration with him was that it seemed he really could have cut a better deal with regards to Emily's treatment. (Well as it turns out, he really couldn't). My second issue (that I had a very hard time getting past) was his paternalistic decision to keep Emily in the dark to protect her - which it seems to me had the glaringly obvious opposite effect - repeatedly. SPOILER: He kept insisting that in order to be safe, safer, safe-ish, that Emily had to fear him. Well actually no. What Emily needed to do to be safe was to be submissive, subserviant and blend into the background like lint on a rug. Something Emily had an extremely difficult time doing when her emotions were raging with hurt, rage and despair. END SPOILER
The second half of the story takes place 2 years later and has to do with the aftermath of the traumatic events and involves Logan and Emily rebuilding their relationship. SPOILERS:(Which takes awhile because Emily understandably can't forgive him. Because Logan again - in his infinite wisdom - decides he wants to withhold information because he "doesn't want it to taint her". Not sure how to break it to "Mr. not the sharpest crayon in the box" but that train has already left the station. I'm pretty sure that after starvation, beating, torture, degradation and the emotional abuse the love of your life unintentionally heaped upon you - you're already filled to the brim with tainted. The only thing Logan sharing about his fear, helplessness and abuse could have done would have been to help Emily understand the situation and his motives and she could have taken @ 100 less pages to regain her trust in him). So yeah, Logan irked me, then I felt bad for being irked because he did do the best he could, what he thought was right, and he was scared and traumatized and not thinking too clearly too. END SPOILER
I liked the secondary characters and the story sets up the sequel that is already out (Overwhelmed By You) and a couple of other sequels in process. I did think Logan and Eme were a cute couple and it wrapped up with a nice HEA.
Title: Tear Asunder
Author: Nashoda Rose
Genre: Dark Romance, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary
Synopsis:
Love is like an avalanche. It hits hard, fast and without mercy.
At least it did for me when Sculpt, the lead singer of the rock band Tear Asunder knocked me off my feet. Literally, because he’s also a fighter, illegally of course, and he taught me how to fight. He also taught me how to love and I fell hard for him. I mean the guy could do sweet, when he wasn't doing bossy, and I like sweet.
Then it all shattered.
Kidnapped.
Starved.
Beaten.
I was alone and fighting to survive.
When I heard Sculpt's voice, I thought he was there to save me.
I was wrong.
My Thoughts:
Torn From You by Nashonda Rose was a heartbreaking, steamy, sexy, angst filled romance that had me on my toes the entire time.
In With You (a previous novella) we meet Sculpt and Emily as they develop a relationship, so I highly recommend reading that first.
In Torn From You, we start off with Emily and Sculpt(who we now know has an actual name and its Logan) and the first time they make love.
Soon after, Emily is kidnapped, starved, beaten, tortured and violated, all while Logan was standing there, watching with indifference. She had thought he was there to save her. She had thought he was her knight in shining armor. But she was wrong. Dead wrong.
In fact, he was the very reason she was there. But you can read about that in the book.
"Hope died as the realization hit me. He was part of this. He did this to me."
Emily faced fifteen days of self loathing and torture, learning to be a slave at the hands of Logan.
""...So he could break me down in the morning, destroy me over and over again. So I could hate myself more than him."
I feared him. But I think I hated him more. No, I knew I hated him more. For what he'd done. For what he was doing. For the betrayal. Most of all, for tarnishing something so beautiful and making it ugly. I trusted him. I gave myself to him, and he took me, peeled back layers of my soul until he saw it all. Then he took me.”
After fifteen days she is set free with the help of....nah, I wont spoil it for you, but she does get set free and then we fast-forward to two years later.
After several months of nightmares and therapy, Emily is back on track looking after her horses when Logan shows up and he shatters her world apart once again.
“Baby, you’re the one who gave me the strength to survive Raul. It has always been you. It will always be you. Emily ...you’re my trophy. And I lost you.”
Emily is forced to re think what she thought was the truth all along because it may have all been a lie.
But it's not easy to forget, is it?
Logan precedes to ear back her trust and show her the love he's always had for her.
“You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.”
Torn From You was an emotionally riveting read that will rip you up and put you back together again.
I loved Torn From You by Nashonda Rose and recommend it to all dark and not dark romance readers.
Author: Nashoda Rose
Genre: Dark Romance, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary
Synopsis:
Love is like an avalanche. It hits hard, fast and without mercy.
At least it did for me when Sculpt, the lead singer of the rock band Tear Asunder knocked me off my feet. Literally, because he’s also a fighter, illegally of course, and he taught me how to fight. He also taught me how to love and I fell hard for him. I mean the guy could do sweet, when he wasn't doing bossy, and I like sweet.
Then it all shattered.
Kidnapped.
Starved.
Beaten.
I was alone and fighting to survive.
When I heard Sculpt's voice, I thought he was there to save me.
I was wrong.
My Thoughts:
Torn From You by Nashonda Rose was a heartbreaking, steamy, sexy, angst filled romance that had me on my toes the entire time.
In With You (a previous novella) we meet Sculpt and Emily as they develop a relationship, so I highly recommend reading that first.
In Torn From You, we start off with Emily and Sculpt(who we now know has an actual name and its Logan) and the first time they make love.
Soon after, Emily is kidnapped, starved, beaten, tortured and violated, all while Logan was standing there, watching with indifference. She had thought he was there to save her. She had thought he was her knight in shining armor. But she was wrong. Dead wrong.
In fact, he was the very reason she was there. But you can read about that in the book.
"Hope died as the realization hit me. He was part of this. He did this to me."
Emily faced fifteen days of self loathing and torture, learning to be a slave at the hands of Logan.
""...So he could break me down in the morning, destroy me over and over again. So I could hate myself more than him."
I feared him. But I think I hated him more. No, I knew I hated him more. For what he'd done. For what he was doing. For the betrayal. Most of all, for tarnishing something so beautiful and making it ugly. I trusted him. I gave myself to him, and he took me, peeled back layers of my soul until he saw it all. Then he took me.”
After fifteen days she is set free with the help of....nah, I wont spoil it for you, but she does get set free and then we fast-forward to two years later.
After several months of nightmares and therapy, Emily is back on track looking after her horses when Logan shows up and he shatters her world apart once again.
“Baby, you’re the one who gave me the strength to survive Raul. It has always been you. It will always be you. Emily ...you’re my trophy. And I lost you.”
Emily is forced to re think what she thought was the truth all along because it may have all been a lie.
But it's not easy to forget, is it?
Logan precedes to ear back her trust and show her the love he's always had for her.
“You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.”
Torn From You was an emotionally riveting read that will rip you up and put you back together again.
I loved Torn From You by Nashonda Rose and recommend it to all dark and not dark romance readers.