Accidentally Forever (Montgomery Ink Legacy #8)
Carrie Ann Ryan
Blurb:
She’s not in love
with the man everyone thinks she is.
And she refuses
to let herself love Crew McTavish.
Her former best
friend is spiraling, and her photography career seems to be standing in her
father’s shadow. Aria knows she needs to find her way out of the darkness. Yet
she’s afraid if she allows Crew inside, he’ll not only take over—but he’ll get
hurt in the process.
Crew McTavish
enjoys being the mysterious friend of the Montgomerys. They may joke that he’s
dating his way into their family one-by-one, but in the end, it’s only one
Montgomery he wants: Aria.
Their pull to one
another is inevitable and once a line is crossed, the heat between them
ignites.
Only his family’s
dark secrets threaten to pull him down and when Aria is threatened, Crew will
stop at nothing to protect her.
Even if it means
watching the world he’s built burn.
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.5 stars
Heat Rating:
Review:
Once again, we
find ourselves caught up in the crazy, sexy, and loving world of the
Montgomery’s and to nobody’s surprise the drama and emotional stress is there
right to the very end of the story.
Carrie Ann Ryan has been thrilling us for so long now with this series
that you might think you’ve seen it all, but I am here to tell you that she
never ceases to find something to break our hearts and remind us of the power
of love. We’ve been hoping for this story for a long time, wanting both Crew
and Aria to find their HEA, not knowing that they would be meant for one
another from the very beginning. This is a story of two people that have
circled one another for years, always seeming to tear one another down, but
have finally found their time and now they are determined to give their hearts
to one another. I am dying for the next story after that last chapter because I
can already tell it is going to be traumatic and filled with pain before Carrie
Ann brings us another fabulous HEA.
Crew
McTavish has been a friend of the Montgomery family for decades and he has always
hated his own family for the pain and suffering they caused him. Aria
Montgomery has always been far beyond his reach, despite the fact that he
slowly feels in love with her from afar and that they have given into their
lust multiple times. Now Aria and Crew
have decided that they are going to give their relationship a real try, even
with the other Montgomerys breathing down their necks. But there is a shadow
hanging over their new relationship in the form of Aria’s childhood friend,
Travis, and the more she pulls away from him the more daring and dangerous he
becomes to Aria. With family drama
coming from both sides, danger around
every corner, and their own issues to work through, can Aria and Crew find a
way to have a future together or will they loose their chance at a forever?
The
connection between Aria and Crew was there from the very beginning and
undeniable but they were at their best when they finally admitted that they were
meant to be together all along instead of hiding their feelings. Crew is the
type of self-made man that becomes a good and loving friend and partner despite
instead of because of his parents and upbringing. HE was abused and mistreated
as a child and the only time her was shown love was when he was with the
Montgomery family but he used their example to become a good man instead of
being an awful human like his parents.
He is strong, smart, loving, sweet, and sexy in the way he shows his
love to Aria and his friends. It was sad
to see how he had to continue to deal with his abusers, but when he finally
found his strength to let them go thanks to Aria, it was a proud moment. Aria
is the perfect cross of her mom and dad, determined to be there for those she
loves and considers her friends, determined not to give up those that have even
given up on themselves. She is a calm in
the storm, intelligent, loveable, brave, and self-sacrificing but she also knew
when to stand up for herself and fight back. That strength and determination
showed that she knew her worth and was going to demand that her partner acknowledge
her importance of their relationship. Together they were a perfect balance for
one another issues and hang-ups and you see they will be perfect together long
into the future.
Crew
and Aria’s story takes us through two people that learning what it takes to accept
the love they are both deserving of and accept that they were always meant to
be together Accidentally Forever. Crew has had a very difficult life,
with an abusive childhood, an adulthood filled with a distinct lack of connection
outside the Montgomery’s, and falling in love from afar with a woman he thought
he’d never be good enough for. He never
could have hoped that he would actually one day find her not only in his bed,
but in his heart, and finally being able to call Aria his love has changed his
outlook forever and made him into a better man. Aria has lived her life in the
shadows for years, trying to find her way in there art without being shadowed
by her dad, trying to help her friend, but being beat down for it, and never
being able to find the man that would earn her heart. When she finally allows
herself to admit her feelings for Crew her world just opens up and she is free,
her heart expanding and her fears finally releasing her. The passion between these two is apparent
from the very moment they enter one another’s hemisphere and when they finally
stop hiding their relationship from others the heat explodes like an atom
bomb. As always Carrie Ann added a sneak
peak of the next book as the last chapter and I can already tell that poor
Lexington is going to have a hell of a time finding his own HEA, and I cannot
wait to go a long for the ride. The wait
is going to kill me, Ms. Ryan, but I suspect that was your evil plan.
*eARC provided by publisher (via
NetGalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.
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