Booklist Reviews
Best-selling Hoover's (November 9, 2015) latest valiant and compelling new-adult novel packs her trademark emotional punch in a story of romance derailed by abuse. Lily is starting her dream of owning a flower shop in Boston and tries to forget the sexy doctor she met on a rooftop one evening. When he turns out to be her new assistant's brother, it seems like fate, and they fall in love. When he hits her the first time, she struggles with her memories of her father hitting her mother. She finds a diary from her teens and remembers the homeless teen she fell for then, and how her father beat him to a pulp. She runs into that person, now a chef, at a nearby restaurant. She returns to her boyfriend and tries to have a normal life and marriage, only to realize that her situation can't last. The power and pain of the relationship will stay with readers even as Hoover offers hope. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.