Hello everyone!
If you're looking at the nifty Goodreads gadget I have here to the side of the blog, you're probably thinking: gee, it's taking her a LONG time (and I mean, super extra long) to read some of these books that aren't even two hundred pages long.
This is also me cheerfully ignoring the fact that I really need to buckle down on the Plantagenet book, too.
But yes, sometimes, you'll see a book on my 'currently reading' list that I add on there so I don't forget, but then I don't actually sit down and read it before some time has passed.
This was what happened with Making Sense.
Serenity Woods still remains my favourite contemporary romance author (even with a supernatural twist!), but somehow I got sidetracked reading everything else except this particular book.
Then again, when I did open it up, I finished it in about two hours.
You can find the first book of the series reviewed in another blog post, linked down below.
Briefly, however, we meet the gang in Uncommon Sense in which Ash, a medium, and Grace, a teacher, meet and fall in love and end up in a relationship. It's also the book where we're introduced to Freya and Mia, Grace's friends/house mates, as well as Nate, Ash's manager.
And Making Sense is Freya and Nate's book.
Freya is a no-nonsense nurse who works long shifts and is also studying and taking exams to the side, but her dream is to travel the world someday, maybe go to some of the poorer countries and work there to help, somehow. The problem is she has a bit of a bad family life, in a way.
Well, okay, not BAD bad, but her father's a gambler, and he won't admit he's addicted to it, so he tends to gamble away money that the family needs. Her mother usually borrows off Freya (not that she ever returns any money), and her parents actually get into physical fights, too. On top of it all, Freya's two other sisters both have a number of kids running around and are both struggling on occasion, so the whole 'money's not everything' mentality always gets to her. Equally, however, she can't seem to cut ties with them and just leave them to their own devices.
Enter Nate.
Nate has his own demons haunting him. Ash discovered the young man while doing a show of his own, and sensed he's got a gift, too, but mostly that he needed a new start in life, so he took him on, as sort of a thing a good man does, you know?
The thing with Nate is, he's a healer, in the sense that he can focus and channel energy to help people. But that was what got him in trouble in the first place, because he didn't always have this gift - in fact, he died when he was fifteen or sixteen, was actually pronounced dead and then all of a sudden came back to life. Since then, he realized what he could do, and soon enough people were flocking to him.
Of course, what followed was that his father started charging money for this kind of thing, not that Nate initially thought anything was wrong. But when there came a case of a boy who he couldn't help - who was honestly dying - and he instead held his hand and sat with him while he moved beyond, well, things came to a head. The parents were obviously out of their minds with grief and wanted to sue, and Nate didn't want to continue with the whole healing thing after learning more about the money behind it all. So, he packed up and left, disappearing in the night after a huge fight with his father.
So both Freya and Nate have their own demons to conquer, but their attraction, at least physical, is instant enough when they look at each other.
When Freya's stranded in the middle of a storm, Nate comes to pick her up since no one else is answering their phone, and they end up having hot, steamy sex together which is supposed to only be the one night. Neither one is looking for a relationship, after all.
But the more they keep bumping into one another, the more it's becoming obvious that they can't keep their hands off, either.
Their friends, while initially encouraging and poking, step back and let them do their own thing. Which does involve outdoor sex in the middle of a wine festival (okay in the trees far removed from the concert lawn, but still) and the realisation that they're kinda falling for one another.
I mean, when they get CAUGHT doing it in the kitchen during a party it's kind of obvious, right? Right.
Still, as I've said before - they need to fight off their own demons at some point.
And once the 'I love you's fall into the ether, not to mention Nate's brother comes into town saying Nate's dad has cancer and is dying, well, Nate and Freya decide that, alone, they'll probably go under. But together? Together, they make perfect sense.
So when Freya gets word that her father really messed up this time, gambling away eight thousand dollars, she draws the line: with Nate there, she gives her last savings to her family but tells them she won't be coddling and picking them up anymore from here on out. They're on their own. She won't even be in-state since she and Nate are going travelling after this.
That is, after he goes and makes some peace with his family, healing his father and then walking out of their lives, as well, deciding he wants what he has with Freya and his job with Ash more than anything else.
As a bonus, Nate also reveals that Grace is pregnant with Ash and hers first child!
The end.
Yet another stunning romance novel that sucks you in and won't let go. The healing aspect of it isn't overdone, and neither is the whole 'world beyond' thing during the reading Ash does for Freya. The story is heartfelt and true, and it's lovely to see two people who previously had to rely solely on themselves find someone else to shoulder their burdens, stepping into a joint life together.
If you haven't yet read this book, I highly recommend it!
xx
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