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wordnerd032 's review for:
Almost Ravaged
by Abby Millsaps
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
✨ARC Review✨
You get emotionally invested in this book immediately. While there is a poignant, tragic storyline, the author is brilliant at making her readers feel what the characters are going through and the emotions they are experiencing. The book starts off showing the tight knit relationship between the twins, Atticus (Atty) and Sawyer, and their friend Tytus (Ty), who was taken in by their parents nearly a decade ago. Ty and Sawyer are on the brink of becoming more than friends when Ty’s father murders the twins’ parents right before they all turn 18. Over the next couple of years they are forced to deal with the trauma in their own ways as Sawyer goes to college and the boys go to Jr Hockey League. They finally all come back together to go to Holy University, the boys as freshman playing hockey and Sawyer as a grad student with a grad assistant position. The department has nothing to do with her major, but it was the best she could get last minute. There is still chemistry between her and Ty, so many “almost” moments that Sawyer finally can’t take it anymore and gives up on her childhood love. The attraction that instantly formed between Sawyer and her grad professor, Mercer, ignites while at the same time there is a slow burn between her and Noah, Mercer’s best friend who owns the apple orchard that is the center of the class’s project. Noah is dealing with his own trauma and the two men couldn’t be more different, but the three of them are finding their way together. When Ty, who has never given up on Sawyer, finds out about her relationship with Mercer it sets off a chain of events that is an incredible plot twist. Be ready for an ending that literally made my eyes go wide and shout “what!!”
You get emotionally invested in this book immediately. While there is a poignant, tragic storyline, the author is brilliant at making her readers feel what the characters are going through and the emotions they are experiencing. The book starts off showing the tight knit relationship between the twins, Atticus (Atty) and Sawyer, and their friend Tytus (Ty), who was taken in by their parents nearly a decade ago. Ty and Sawyer are on the brink of becoming more than friends when Ty’s father murders the twins’ parents right before they all turn 18. Over the next couple of years they are forced to deal with the trauma in their own ways as Sawyer goes to college and the boys go to Jr Hockey League. They finally all come back together to go to Holy University, the boys as freshman playing hockey and Sawyer as a grad student with a grad assistant position. The department has nothing to do with her major, but it was the best she could get last minute. There is still chemistry between her and Ty, so many “almost” moments that Sawyer finally can’t take it anymore and gives up on her childhood love. The attraction that instantly formed between Sawyer and her grad professor, Mercer, ignites while at the same time there is a slow burn between her and Noah, Mercer’s best friend who owns the apple orchard that is the center of the class’s project. Noah is dealing with his own trauma and the two men couldn’t be more different, but the three of them are finding their way together. When Ty, who has never given up on Sawyer, finds out about her relationship with Mercer it sets off a chain of events that is an incredible plot twist. Be ready for an ending that literally made my eyes go wide and shout “what!!”