3.75 Stars
By Teresa Mummert
From the back cover:
“I’m not naive. I know I don’t get the happily ever after. My knight in shining armor took the highway detour around this god forsaken shit hole. I’ve made peace with that. That doesn’t mean I’m going to lay down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer park have his way with me.”Cass lives a depressing life in a small trailer park in Eddington, Georgia, with her mother and abusive boyfriend Jackson. She works hard to barely make ends meet. But everything changes when Tucker White, the lead singer in the band Damaged, walks into her diner. He tries to show her that there is more to life than the hand she has been dealt, but Cass soon learns that being with Tucker will come at a high price.
My thoughts:
Almost a 4 star book. I have read quite a few rock stars falling for “normal” girls lately and this story line was different from those. Cass’s dad left her family when she was young. After her dad left her mom gave up on life and became a drug addict. Her one saving grace was Jackson; he protected her, loved her, and looked out for her.
When he started doing drugs Cass now needed protecting from
him but there was no one there to do that for her. The trailer they all lived
in belonged to Jackson, so she couldn’t kick him out and she leave because she
had her mother to take care of. Her mom was getting high with Jackson on a
daily basis and Cass had to financially support them. She didn’t make much
money as a waitress at a hole in the wall restaurant.
Enter Tucker, good looking, tattooed, cocky, bad boy with a good
heart. While in town for a couple of days they meet at the diner Cass works at.
He tries to show her that she needs to stop lying down and accepting her life
as it is.
The only issues I had with Cass’s character, is she keeps
running from Tucker back to her crappy abusive life even though he Tucker has
proved over and over that she can trust him and that he is willing to help her
and her mom out. I don’t want to spoil the book but at the climax of the story it
was frustrating that Cass walked back into the trailer knowing what would
happen if Jackson was home and that Tucker let her.
Overall good book, I look forward to the next one.
