Blaine Donovan has a secret, but so far his plan to keep the rest of the world in the dark about who he really is and what’s really going on in his life has worked. If he can just finish school before the demons catch up with him, he knows he can make life make sense once again. However, when he runs into Melody Todd, a semi-friend he had thought was long-gone, life takes a turn Blaine wasn’t at all expecting. Still hurting from watching her best friend marry someone else, Melody Todd has given up on dating, guys, and herself. In fact, when Blaine shows back up in her life, she does what she always does with the eligible guys who look her way-she sets him up with someone else. But Blaine soon proves to be much different than he at first seems. Too many things are not adding up the way they are supposed to, and the more Melody digs, the more she sees that the Blaine she knows is not the real Blaine at all…
GRIEF HEARTACHE TRAGEDY GOOD FRIENDS LOVE WITH HAPPINESS AND JOY This was truly the very best of the three books in this series. The life that Blaine had taking care of his little brother and his mother because he had a worthless father who left his family to run away with Secretary while his mom was eight months pregnant was no life for a young man. Blaine worked and went to school then had to come home and do everything to take care of a home because his mother fell apart then got mixed up and married a drug dealing addict and she became one. Melody was a…
For Real I loved this story. In fact I think I liked it better than previous 2 and I loved them.Â
4 stars: For Real by Staci Stallings Blaine juggles work, school, and taking care of his mother and brother, and on top of it all, tries to maintain a false front of cocky wealth; Melody, who maintains her own mask, is the first person to make him want to be honest.Â