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Blind Kiss
by Renée Carlino
The tone for this whole book was longing and yearning. Wanting the person you can’t have. Loving this person but staying within the confines of a close friendship. Years and years of this. I felt my heart constrict as I read this book, hurting for these two souls.
The book is written in dual POV’s and in different time frames: current time, fourteen years ago, nine months ago, three months ago, back and forth. Yet, the author does a brilliant job and ties it all together seamlessly and I never got confused. The information is given in a timely manner and I loved that nothing is held back, so we learn everything as it happens. It was a great book to read, even as my heart was wrenching.
Penny and Gavin met in University when they participated in a psychology study about kissing a person while blindfolded. Hence, the title. When they kissed, Penny swooned, he was that good a kisser. Then when they remove the blindfold, they had such a great connection that Gavin instantly declared Penny his best friend. Before Penny, he was a player; now he met Penny, he wants to take care of her, protect her, love her.
Penny was very driven and ambitious; her sole purpose in life is to be a dancer and she subjected her body to strenuous work preparing to be the best there is. She didn’t have time for boyfriends, so Gavin was firmly situated into a friend zone.
Then life happened, and Penny couldn’t realize her dreams, and through a series of missed opportunities, bad decisions, short tempers and impulsivity, Penny ends up married and pregnant to another guy and Gavin just ended his relation with a crazy girlfriend.
We live the incredible love this couple has for each other, limited to best friends, but a love that transcends the bounds of Penny’s marriage to Lance, Gavin’s many girlfriends and travels around the world. They are always there for each other, and are loyal to each other above everyone else.
Gavin was dramatic and impulsive, but I found Penny to be emotionally congested. First, the dedication to ballet, then the loyalty to a marriage that was based on duty instead of love. She was loyal to everyone but to herself. She felt like a ghost, not a vibrant woman who would stand for herself. All the missed chances, all the miscommunications where she insisted on the status quo, and all the time there was Gavin wanting, yearning, longing for all that Lance had. It broke my heart.
All the books I’ve read by this author have been very intense. This book was no less. I read it in a state of anguish (totally enjoyable), waiting for this couple’s HEA. I just wanted to bash their heads so they could get their act together and do it sooner rather than later.
The book is written in dual POV’s and in different time frames: current time, fourteen years ago, nine months ago, three months ago, back and forth. Yet, the author does a brilliant job and ties it all together seamlessly and I never got confused. The information is given in a timely manner and I loved that nothing is held back, so we learn everything as it happens. It was a great book to read, even as my heart was wrenching.
Penny and Gavin met in University when they participated in a psychology study about kissing a person while blindfolded. Hence, the title. When they kissed, Penny swooned, he was that good a kisser. Then when they remove the blindfold, they had such a great connection that Gavin instantly declared Penny his best friend. Before Penny, he was a player; now he met Penny, he wants to take care of her, protect her, love her.
Penny was very driven and ambitious; her sole purpose in life is to be a dancer and she subjected her body to strenuous work preparing to be the best there is. She didn’t have time for boyfriends, so Gavin was firmly situated into a friend zone.
Then life happened, and Penny couldn’t realize her dreams, and through a series of missed opportunities, bad decisions, short tempers and impulsivity, Penny ends up married and pregnant to another guy and Gavin just ended his relation with a crazy girlfriend.
We live the incredible love this couple has for each other, limited to best friends, but a love that transcends the bounds of Penny’s marriage to Lance, Gavin’s many girlfriends and travels around the world. They are always there for each other, and are loyal to each other above everyone else.
Gavin was dramatic and impulsive, but I found Penny to be emotionally congested. First, the dedication to ballet, then the loyalty to a marriage that was based on duty instead of love. She was loyal to everyone but to herself. She felt like a ghost, not a vibrant woman who would stand for herself. All the missed chances, all the miscommunications where she insisted on the status quo, and all the time there was Gavin wanting, yearning, longing for all that Lance had. It broke my heart.
All the books I’ve read by this author have been very intense. This book was no less. I read it in a state of anguish (totally enjoyable), waiting for this couple’s HEA. I just wanted to bash their heads so they could get their act together and do it sooner rather than later.