Title: Paradise Forbidden
Author: Natalie E. Wrye
Genre: New Adult Romantic Suspense
Release Date: August 28, 2015
When Trevor Cassidy steps foot on a bus to "Nowhere," Tennessee, he boards with a singular purpose: to leave the life he led behind.
A desolate girl on the ride catches his eye, but he wants almost nothing to do with the ten-foot invisible wall that she's built around herself.
But when calamity strikes deep inside the Tennessee forest, Trevor and the lonely girl, Kat, must learn to trust each other if they want to make it back to civilization intact.
Breaking down Kat's walls will prove to be the hardest thing Trevor's ever done, and on top of that...she's hiding something: something that may threaten their very existence, their dwindling survival.
But how does Trevor uncover Kat's hidden agenda without bringing his own to light?
Foxy Rating = 3.5 stars
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
This was a unique and intriguing storyline and my first read
of this author.
Kat and Trevor are travelling on the same bus out of their
past, taking a chance on the unknown. Trevor finds himself attracted towards
the ice princess on the bus and cannot understand the complexity of her
standoffishness. Kat on the other hand notices the ‘Zeus’ on the bus but
ignores him and the unknown pull she feels towards him. But then along comes one
hell of a cluster eff that throws them into each other in more ways than one.
Their journey just took a turn for the worse, throwing them into the Tennessee
Forest! Both need to learn to survive and find salvation but to do that they
need to trust and in order to do that Kat needs to let down some of her
protective walls and Trevor needs to find a way to help her do that.
The majority of the book was of Kat and Trevor’s long trek
through the forest, with barely any possessions and coping with their injuries. The storyline
interweaves a little suspense along with their growing camaraderie and
attraction to each other which stays resolute until later in the book when they
eventually reach salvation.
I did enjoy this but for me personally I would have liked a little more romance and intensity between the pairing. At times Kat did annoy me with
her attitude towards Trevor but was recovered when the romance factor kicked
in.
Overall a good distinctive story that was engaging and
enjoyable.
I nod, never breaking eye contact. And how could I? With Trevor looking at me like that, there’s no chance that I can move, let alone breathe.
Every time our gazes cross, a shift takes place. It moves the air around us: swirling and circling, interlacing and enclosing. It weaves through us, wrapping us to each other: binding us… with this… need.
I can see in Trevor’s eyes all that I feel.
The apprehension. The latent confusion. That undeniable… need.
And there it is again: that needling… annoying… disturbing and somehow strangely consuming sentiment that we need each other. I don’t want to need Trevor. I don’t need him to need me, either.
Whatever it is that exists between the two of us, it is inescapable: invisible but potent. We’re two stars on a collision course, orbiting each other, dancing around another… until the inevitable happens.
A cosmic boom that threatens to rain destruction... or beautiful stardust, and I’m not sure which it will be, so I make a decision right then and right there.
The decision… to get out.
Get out while I still can: while I can spare us both the explosion that is bound to happen. While I can avoid the disappointment that will ultimately follow.
While I can spare myself Trevor’s discovery of my deceit.
Natalie Wrye is a math geek by day, writer by night. She is a quirky, former Yankee living in Northwest Georgia with nothing but her Friends and Gilmore Girls reruns to keep her company. Natalie started writing nonsensical stories at the ripe age of 6; she hopes things have changed since then. She loves chocolate, cuddly things, and large libraries. Oh...and she thinks it's pretty cool to talk in 3rd person.
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