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This came close to not being a full 4 stars. I had a few issues with the heroine, Melanie, and her naivety and desperation to be wanted. It made her blind or perhaps just in denial to shady things going on with her and Greyson. However, the story was captivating and well written, and the connection between the main characters really helped sell the overall story.
Melanie lost her twin sister as an infant, and ended up needing her sister's kidney so she could at least survive. 24 years later, she is living in guilt and almost putting on a façade to the world to prove that she is living her life happily and deserves to have survived, though no one actual puts pressure on her to feel such remorse. When Greyson walks into her life, it doesn't take long for her to know that he is the one for her, and he'll either break her or make her. It's all complicated by Greyson's job, which pulls him out of town and creates a lot of secrecy. He is trying to appease his manipulative father so he can discover his mother's whereabouts (since his father essentially kidnapped his mother when Greyson was 13). However, in his role as debt-collector he has a list that contains names that owe money; one of which happens to be the girl that has stolen his heart: Melanie.
Greyson is rather honest, in a cryptic way, with Melanie from the start, and doesn't really make promises he can't keep, but he doesn't really give Melanie much to go with either. Since Melanie recognizes how much Greyson means to her, she accepts whatever she can get from him, whether her actions are healthy, is highly debatable.
On top of Melanie's blind trust with her heart, she has the secret of her debt lying on her shoulders as well. She doesn't want to disappoint her friends or parents so you doesn't ask for help from them. She tries to handle it all on her own, even when things get more dangerous, she lets her pride rule her. I didn't quite see how that really worked so well, that she dropped her dignity to be at Greyson's beck and call while still giving her heart to him, but she couldn't trust him to at least tell him what else was going on in her life. She chose really random things to off load onto him, but felt such shame over her biggest issue that she let it rule her life. Considering how passionate and optimistically romantic Melanie's personality is, it just doesn't fit that her pride was so strong.
Melanie lost her twin sister as an infant, and ended up needing her sister's kidney so she could at least survive. 24 years later, she is living in guilt and almost putting on a façade to the world to prove that she is living her life happily and deserves to have survived, though no one actual puts pressure on her to feel such remorse. When Greyson walks into her life, it doesn't take long for her to know that he is the one for her, and he'll either break her or make her. It's all complicated by Greyson's job, which pulls him out of town and creates a lot of secrecy. He is trying to appease his manipulative father so he can discover his mother's whereabouts (since his father essentially kidnapped his mother when Greyson was 13). However, in his role as debt-collector he has a list that contains names that owe money; one of which happens to be the girl that has stolen his heart: Melanie.
Greyson is rather honest, in a cryptic way, with Melanie from the start, and doesn't really make promises he can't keep, but he doesn't really give Melanie much to go with either. Since Melanie recognizes how much Greyson means to her, she accepts whatever she can get from him, whether her actions are healthy, is highly debatable.
On top of Melanie's blind trust with her heart, she has the secret of her debt lying on her shoulders as well. She doesn't want to disappoint her friends or parents so you doesn't ask for help from them. She tries to handle it all on her own, even when things get more dangerous, she lets her pride rule her. I didn't quite see how that really worked so well, that she dropped her dignity to be at Greyson's beck and call while still giving her heart to him, but she couldn't trust him to at least tell him what else was going on in her life. She chose really random things to off load onto him, but felt such shame over her biggest issue that she let it rule her life. Considering how passionate and optimistically romantic Melanie's personality is, it just doesn't fit that her pride was so strong.