But a familiar face walking into her life in the form of 25-year-old Mason Street had Avery’s heart waging a war within. Mason was a failure. When he left his hometown five years ago, he was never coming back—it was only a matter of time before his records hit the billboard charts. Women, booze and rock-n-roll—that was it for him. But it seemed fate had a different plan in mind, and with a dropped record contract, little money and nowhere to go, Mason turned to the only family that ever made him feel home—the Abbots.
Avery loved Mason silently for years—until he broke her heart…completely. But time and life have a funny way of changing people, and sometimes second chances are there for a reason. Could this one save them both?
How do I even explain this book in a review?!?!
The prologue is like a slap in the face with reality. I know what you are thinking...you read to get away from reality. Me, too! I swear. But there was something about the blurb on this book that got my attention, and I just had to see what it was all about.
Avery Abbot is a tough girl. You learn that page one. She got married young, got pregnant while she was still in college and then had a son who was diagnosed at one year old with Autism then her husband took off.
Personally, I have not dealt with autism in a real life situation. I have met children with autism and their parents and always known two things to be true; the few children I've met are amazing and brilliant and their parents are the most patient and loving people on this planet.
Avery Abbot is no different, but we do also get to see how hard life can be and how careful not just a single mother, but a single mother of a child with autism has to be. The routines, the choices, the everyday worry...it all takes up room in your heart while you are reading. From the prologue on, Avery had my heart and soared and broke with her as the story went along.
Mason Street didn't have it easy either. He found music at an early age and all the pros that come along with that...well girls that come along with that. He's a player of music and women and unfortunately the music thing hasn't worked out well as of recently. After being dropped by their record label, Mason has come home to find himself again, only home isn't the warm and fuzzy place we all wish our home was. His mom is always off with a different guy looking for an easy life and his dad left when he was just a little kid. The only man who showed him the fatherly love he always needed was Ray Abbot. Ray believed in him when he was young, taught him to play and encouraged him to believe in himself. Then sent him out in the music world and hasn't seen him in years.
Avery meets back up with Mason in the bar that they both grew up in (because her dad, Ray, owns it). Avery hasn't seen Mason since he left to follow his music career but neither of them is the same person they were before he left. Avery was a geeky girl who had a huge crush on the bad boy that practically grew up in her house and sang for everyone else except her...and Mason, he's grown up a lot...but is it enough to take on a single mom with an autistic son?
This was my first Ginger Scott book, but if her others are like this, I can tell you it won't be my last. This book was emotional and real but in a way that I didn't feel like I was living in my real life, just a life that could actually happen.
I was more invested in this book than I thought I would be. Second chance romance? Maybe. Best friend love? Definitely not. There are enough differences in this book from other new adult romance stories that I think it's absolutely worth the read. I would absolutely recommend it to friends.
The epilogue is the only part that felt a little more like the typical new adult books I'm used to, but with everything they had already been through - I was actually happy to see it all play out the way it did.
**ARC provided by Net Galley**
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