She’s a free-spirited dreamer. He’s a brilliant painter. But now their shared passion for art has turned into something deeper….
For as long as she can remember, Kugy has loved to write. Whimsical stories are her passion, along with letters full of secret longings that she folds into paper boats and sets out to sea. Now that she’s older, she dreams of following her heart and becoming a true teller of tales, but she decides to get a “real job” instead and forget all about Keenan, the guy who makes her feel as if she’s living in one of her own fairy tales.
Sensitive and introverted, Keenan is an aspiring artist, but he feels pressured to pursue a more practical path. He’s drawn to Kugy from first sight: she’s unconventional, and the light radiating from her eyes and the warmth of her presence pull him in.
They seem like a perfect match – both on and off the page – but revealing their secret feelings means risking their friendship and betraying the people they love most. Can they find the courage to admit their love for each other and chase their long-held dreams?
Haunting and beautiful Perhaps because a part of me still believes in fairytales and happily ever after I’m biased, but this book hurts in all the right ways and causes one to really think about what it means to love and the choices we make in its name. What threads are you holding on to?
Good prose, weak plot, weak characters Kugy is a self defined weirdo who, frankly, thinks and acts like a child pretending to be an adult. Keenan is a painter whose parents think his art is a childish habit he hasn’t outgrown. Their “love at first sight” situation might be plausible if every single unattached character of the opposite gender didn’t also fall in love with them at sight for the entire book, which is the ongoing excuse K and K use for not sharing their feelings about each other. 90% of the plot is Kugy and…
Happy with my Kindle First pick I don’t think I have ever gotten a Kindle First Read and read it before the month was up, let alone the week. I normally don’t go for romances. I normally shy away from international writers, but at the time I was browsing, this book 1) sounded promising and 2) had no reviews. I truly did not want to put this book down. As soon as I did put it down I had to rush to my computer to enter a review. I read it in 3 nights, and would have been less if I didn’t have to be up early for work. This was a…