⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
When you actually experience every single emotion and
thought of both the MCs almost physically, you know you’re submerged in
something created by a magician. This book has an unusual circumstance in which
the MCs meet and that circumstance is one of the drivers or their relationship
and every emotion. It is wonderfully imagined and executed.
An experiment of having a person live completely alone for a
period of a minimum of three years, extendable to four years, if the person
agrees to continue. Celeste Thorne is the study subject of the experiment. With
lots of money at the end of four years, she opts to stay beyond three years.
She is a few months into the fourth year when her solitude is disrupted by the
arrival of Olivia, a wandering hiker whom Celeste shoots by mistake.
Celeste develops strong feelings very quickly for Olivia but
has a hard time separating reality from the almost-hallucinations that she has
been having. She even wonders whether Olivia is real or someone she’s dreamed
up. She has a hard time controlling her lust, till Olivia makes the first move
to giving a physical expression to their closeness.
But Celeste knows that Olivia’s time with her is limited
because the experiment requires Celeste to be alone. She is dreading Olivia
leaving – till she discovers a secret that Olivia has been keeping and it
splits Celeste apart.
E. J. Noyes is easily one of the most gifted writers pulling
us into whatever world she creates making us live and feel every emotion with
her characters. She also has an ability to write equally awesome MCs and we
absolutely love it when a book has two fantastic MCs. The other big,
big, big comfort in Noyes’ romances is that both the MCs feel equally strongly
about each other – and nothing in this world is better than reading about love
reciprocated with completeness.
Definitely, loudly, vehemently recommended.
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
