Her story started long before she started working at The Sky Launch…
Screw fairytales. The only reward Gwen Anders got from her rough childhood was a thick skin and hard heart. She’s content with her daily grind managing a top NYC nightclub—Eighty-Eighth Floor. So hers isn’t a happily ever after. She doesn’t believe in those anyway.
Then she meets J.C.
The rich, smooth talking playboy is the sexiest thing that Gwen has ever encountered, but she’s not interested in a night-in-shining latex. But when a family tragedy pushes her to the brink, it’s J.C. who’s there to teach her a new method of survival, one based on following primal urges and desires. His no-strings-attached lessons require her to abandon her constant need for control. Her carefully built walls are obliterated.
Gwen discovers there’s a beautiful world outside her prison. Freedom is exhilarating—and terrifying. When she starts to feel something for J.C., she fears for her heart. Especially as she realizes that he has secrets of his own. Secrets that don’t want to set him free.
This series can be read alone or with the Fixed Trilogy.
My Review
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
Free Me is a spin off from the Fixed Trilogy, but can totally be read as as stand alone. I really enjoyed the Fixed Trilogy, so I couldn’t have been more excited about this book. And once I read the synopsis, I knew I had to read this book. And let me tell you, it was such a delicious read. I was pulled into the story from the very first page. My interest was peaked and I was dying to know more. The more I read, the more I fell in love with the characters. This book was exactly what I was looking for. It was hot. It was sexy. It had romance. It had drama. It had angst. God, I loved the angst. With lines like these: “I was numb. Everywhere. My body, my skin. My lips. My chest. Inside my chest. I was void. I was space. I was a vast universe of nothing, nothing, nothing.” or “He’d shown up like my knight in shining armor, and I wanted to believe that it meant something. That I was someone he wanted to save. That I was worth fighting for.” My poor heart didn’t stand a chance and I loved every second of it.
Overall, I really enjoyed this story. I thought it was well-written and entertaining. My only complaint and it’s not even really a big complaint, was that I wish this story had been told from dual points of view. I am dying to know JC’s side of everything!! That being said, even though the story is only told from Gwen’s point of view, it was still really enjoyable.
Free Me took me on one heck of a journey. My emotions are still all over the place. The ending just left me begging for more. I am dying to read Find Me and see how everything will come together in the end!
*I was provided an ARC copy of this book via InkSlinger PR, in exchange for an honest review*
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