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A review by prettymonsters
Claiming Grace by Susan Stoker
3.0
I found it a little hard to read, the author took the whole cinderella troph to a whole new level with Grace's abuse in a way that made me feel like I was reading manga, not a romance novel. While the first half of the book was plain cruel the climax was downright despicable.
The author does not attempt to explain what was at the root of all the evil behind Grace's parents making their characters unbelievable. In the end, Grace said she would never understand why her Mother treated her child so badly and didn't care to know and was simply happy with just escaping her (and doesn't even mention wanting closure from her Father for his part in all of this as though he was just a puppet of no consequence after all).
Personally, this is not enough closure for me. I'm not sure anyone who has ever been abused can stop themselves from trying to understand all the WHY's, why me? what could I have done differently? It's hard not to place blame somewhere, usually multiple someones in fact, and sadly a lot of that blame is usually on yourself whether you realize it or not you need to understand the bully's motive because you always want to know in the back of your mind if there was something about you that brought out the abusive nature in the other party.
But true love heals all and happy endings don't work without healing old wounds and finding closure.
I enjoyed the relationship between Logan and Grace immensely though, there was history, love, lots of drama, passion and a HEA witch in my opinion are the building blocks of any good romance novel so I did like this book even though I found the antagonists completely unbelievable.
The author does not attempt to explain what was at the root of all the evil behind Grace's parents making their characters unbelievable. In the end, Grace said she would never understand why her Mother treated her child so badly and didn't care to know and was simply happy with just escaping her (and doesn't even mention wanting closure from her Father for his part in all of this as though he was just a puppet of no consequence after all).
Personally, this is not enough closure for me. I'm not sure anyone who has ever been abused can stop themselves from trying to understand all the WHY's, why me? what could I have done differently? It's hard not to place blame somewhere, usually multiple someones in fact, and sadly a lot of that blame is usually on yourself whether you realize it or not you need to understand the bully's motive because you always want to know in the back of your mind if there was something about you that brought out the abusive nature in the other party.
But true love heals all and happy endings don't work without healing old wounds and finding closure.
I enjoyed the relationship between Logan and Grace immensely though, there was history, love, lots of drama, passion and a HEA witch in my opinion are the building blocks of any good romance novel so I did like this book even though I found the antagonists completely unbelievable.