6+++ stars!
SQUEEEEE SQUEEEEE SQUEEEEE SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!
THIS. BOOK. WAS. ABSOLUTELY. UTTERLY. PERFECT.
I loved every, single moment of it!
If I had custom ordered this book straight from the deepest book desires of my heart, it could not have been any better.
Gideon Cross (oooo even his name gives me shivers) and Eva Tramell are one of my TOP favorite book couples ever. It was absolutely beautiful to watch a couple who were just so messed up but who wanted, with every fiber of their beings and every corner of their hearts, to do everything in their power to make their relationship work. Who were willing to sacrifice anything for each other. Who were willing to apologize. To never give up. To try again. And again and again and again until they made it work. Together.
Absolutely beautiful!!!!
The strength of their attraction, desire and need for each other is palatable. You can feel it rolling off the page. It hits you every single time. Its scorching. Consuming. Riveting. Intoxicating. But lust isn’t enough to make a relationship truly work. In order for their love to have the room to properly and healthily develop, they have to learn to trust each other. And that truly is what is at the heart of this book. Trust.
With a couple with as many issues, hang-ups, and fuck ups as Gideon and Eva, yes, I admit it was sometimes frustrating to read through their problems. But the thing was, despite some of them being irrational and over-the-top, I sympathized with both of them about their insecurities and worries. Everything they felt, I understood. Sometimes it was painful, but always understandable.
They were not perfect people. They both had secrets. They both had a lot to learn about how to trust each other, find safety in each other, heal each other, save each other… and in doing so, find a way to save themselves.
But as messed up as they both were, they worked through EVERYTHING!! A couple after my own heart. **SQUEEEE**
“I didn’t know I was looking for anything until I saw you.”
Gideon is the epitome of a complex, tortured, flawed, and mysterious hero. But my dear God does he make my heart (and my panties) melt!!! I swear, flaws and all, that man is pure perfection to me. I absolutely adored everything about his character. Everything.
And we get a lot more insight into him- into his secrets, his nightmares, how he became so rich, what he felt when they first met. For a story told entirely from Eva’s perspective, we do learn a lot about him in this book.
Eva is one of my favorite heroines as well. Never once have I wanted to throttle her. She, just like Gideon, is seriously flawed and scarred by her past. She has real insecurities, jealousies, worries, but I sympathized with them all and loved her spirit, her dedication and her decisions.
As a couple, they were just so functional!! Watching them work so hard at their relationship, where no matter what went wrong, letting nothing tear them apart… it was inspiring, heart warming, and beautiful.
This book put my heart through a delicious ringer. It made it race, flutter, melt, burn, freeze, drop, pound, stop… It broke my heart and it healed my heart. I loved every minute!!!
Let me tell you though, in this book, Gideon will test your trust, patience and faith in him to the absolute limit. He asks for Eva’s trust, but as the reader, I felt for her SO strongly that it was MY trust I was putting out there. I realized before all the drama started that I had a choice and a decision to make: Did I trust him? Or didn’t I?
I realized that I loved his character enough to trust that he wouldn’t ever betray her… I was patient with him way past the point where I’d have lost patience with any other character. But again, and again, and again I trusted, he tested, I waited, I trusted and he tested some more. Serious props to Ms. Day for putting me RIGHT in the heroine’s mind. When you feel for what a character is going through with all your heart, that’s a sign of absolutely brilliant writing.
Please please please… if you are going to read this and hit that point where you think you are going to lose faith in Gideon, just hang on. Trust me, the ending is worth every moment of heart ache!!!
He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. “Where do we go from here?”
I held him. “Wherever this takes us. Together.”
I can’t tell you how absolutely happy the ending made me!!!! Seriously, I felt like I could fly!!
“I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You’re everything i’ve ever wanted or needed, everything i’ve dreamed of. You’re everything. I live and breathe you. For you.”
**PS. If you haven’t read book 1, BARED TO YOU, yet, do be sure to start with it. This is a continuation of the story that started there, it is NOT a standalone.
CASTING:
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*** CROSSFIRE SERIES READING ORDER ***
BARED TO YOU (Crossfire #1)
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REFLECTED IN YOU (Crossfire #2)
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ENTWINED WITH YOU (Crossfire #3)
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CAPTIVATED BY YOU (Crossfire #4)
Buy on Kindle | Buy in Paperback | Read my Review
ONE WITH YOU (Crossfire #5)
More info coming soon.
Monica says
I got this downloaded to my kindle @ midnight and I stayed up until 3 am to read most of it. I woke up and all I could think of was Gideon Cross! I even dreamt about him. WOW what a book!!
Kristin says
I was uber excited about this book and so glad I spent most of my day flying yesterday so I could read it literally ALL day. Gideon is just WOW. He kept asking her to trust him and I just knew there was more than meets the eye. He was doing all of that for good reason and I was totally engriossed. December is so close yet so far away!
Pisces82 says
I loved, loved, loved this book! I knew when he kept telling Eva to trust him that he had some type of plan. With that said, I totally felt her frustration and insecurity.The ending was just WOW. The only hang up for me with this book was that I didn’t want it to end.
Keisha says
I LOVED this book to pieces AND Gideon & Eva, of course. I felt so much emotion right from the start with this book and was rooting for them all the way through it all. Gideon is beyond swoonworthy and he had some heart fluttering sayings to Eva throughout the book but my fave would be those words he finally said to her towards the end of the book!!!!! *faint*. I’m really looking forward to the next book & I think it can on go up for them!! Great review!!!!
Jessie L says
I can honestly say that I read your reviews with a smile on my face. Thank you for this awesome review. I was so excited & doing the “happy” dance to know that this book was coming out yesterday that I didn’t know that it was only for the ebook. I want/need/have to have the paperback sitting on my “keeper” shelf along with Bared to You. So I can wait til the 23rd for that. But, in the meantime, I downloaded Reflected in You to my Kindle yesterday morning. And I finished it by lunchtime. Yup, I found it difficult to put down. I think I might have enjoyed this one a little bit more than Bared to You. Which I dearly loved & gave 5 stars & read it again this past weekend to get ready for this sequel. I know I will be reading book 2 again sometime. Wow, this book had me feeling alot of emotions. Sometimes my heart was either aching or beating fast or I felt like I had an elephant on my chest. These two tortured souls have some more issues to work through but I know that their love will survive!
Aestas says
Thanks guys <3 I'm so happy to hear you all loved the book as much as me. I can't stop thinking about it... gah, the way everything worked up to that ending was just brilliant. LOVE LOVE LOVE Gideon and Eva!!! *dreamy sigh*
Jen Berg says
Just wanted to say that I loved your review and I’m almost finished the book and I loved loved loved it!!! Can hardly wait for the next one!! My heart was pounding in so many spots as I was reading, I couldn’t believe it!!! I stayed up until five this morning and as soon as I woke up I have been at it again!!! I have had to stop to give my kids rides and such..believe me I didn’t want to!!!LOL
By the way, I love how with each review you put a pic of what you think the hero and heroine look like!! I love your blog, just wanted to let you know that I read each and everyone you put up here!!! Thank you for the great reviews!
Hugs,
Jen
Aestas says
Awwww *hugs Jen* I’m so so thrilled that you love my blog 🙂
I totally know what you mean though! I could barely process any thought that was non-Gideon-related while I was reading this! Such an amazing book <3
Just wait till the ending... I'm still getting chills every time I think about it!!!
Jen Berg says
Just wanted to touch base and let you know that I adored the book. I wish it didn’t have to end!! Amazing!! I will be counting down the days until the next book. What an emotional roller coaster ride this was. I walked around with a book hangover all day after it!!LOL
Aestas says
Hey Jen 🙂 I didn’t want it to end either!!! and moving on from that book was painful – seriously few books can hold a candle to it. I ended up going with a bit of a “different” style book. I’ll have the review up shortly…
*deep breath* only 12 weeks till book 3 (not that I’m counting down or anything lol)
Aestas says
Hey Jen 🙂 I didn’t want it to end either!!! and moving on from that book was painful – seriously few books can hold a candle to it. I ended up going with a bit of a “different” style book. I’ll have the review up shortly…
*deep breath* only 12 weeks till book 3 (not that I’m counting down or anything lol)
iluvvampires says
I no joke screamed when it ended! Hubby was like …what the!? 31 December can’t come quick enough this year! I am sooooo hoping that Sylvia writes a book 4 aswell. I just know I will suffer withdrawal after book 3!
Aestas says
LOL!! I know that feeling!! I feel like I’ve got this countdown to book 3 always going on at the back of my head 😛
Lucinda says
I can’t wait for December !!! I need more of Gideon and Eva. I was in tears, there was a point where i felt that i was being placed into character with Eva. Honestly, these two book of Sylvia Day is the best that i’ve ever read. And talk about slepless night an not wanting to leave my house..hehehee i was in greed to read. I just couldnt get enough. I’m soo lost now that i’ve finished reading Reflected In You…
Bobbie Desmond says
I have waited for the this since I read the first in the series. Can’t wait to read this.
Aestas says
It’s absolutely AMAZING Bobbie. Enjoy 🙂
Angie Feduniak says
I am so excited to read this book.
lauren rosa says
I am patiently waiting for Book#3! Loved this book!
Zita R says
I loved this book! So looking forward to the book 3!
Erin Hill says
Thanks Brandy, that really sweet!
Lisa Hutson says
I have Bared To You on my shelf. And I have only heard good things about her. Just finding the time……
Christine says
Thanks for the contest!! Haven’t had a chance to buy these yet but looking forward to reading them!!
Tosha Powers says
I would love 2 win this book. I have been waiting 4 the price 2 go down b/c its so much more expensive.
Anesha G says
*chants* Please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win…please let me win *cries* I LOVE GIDEON!!!
And what a LUCKY AND GENEROUS person~!!!
Brittany says
I chose this review to make a comment on for your giveaway. It was an easy choice because this series is my all time favorite, along with the Thoughtless series! I LOVE these books. They make you feel things your didn’t even know books could make you feel. I absolutely loved your picks for Gideon and Eva as well! They were spot on!
I have yet to read the last book Sylvia day has out in this series (Captivated by You), and that is why I am re reading all of them this time. I just started, Entwined With You, and have actually been listening to the audio books this time around. I listen to them a lot at work (I have a desk job). Can you say awkward during the hot and heavy scenes!? lol.
I have not read your review for Captivated, but I look forward to it! Thank you!
-Brittany
Cathy C. says
I have been wanting to read this book and series.