5 stars I received an ARC of this book so I really had no idea what to expect. The description doesn’t say exactly what happens to Alex to make him so defenseless, but it does say that Natalie works to get him back on his feet. I don’t know how to write this review without revealing that Alex loses both of his legs in an explosion while saving two women from a fire. Rachel Medhurst does a great job of tapping into Alex’s emotions—denial, anger, imagining what-ifs, fear, sadness, determination, hope—and this emotion is what drives the book and makes it compelling. Alex is a womanizer who refuses to recognize that Natalie is his soul-match, until his accident forces him to confront what he has denied. To his surprise, he finds that women still find him attractive, not deterred by his lack of lower limbs, but he values Natalie in a way he hadn’t allowed himself to do in the past. He becomes determined to recover from his injury, then pursue Natalie and fulfill his destiny. The reader learns more about the other siblings because they play a bigger part in Alex’s story than they did in Penny’s. This is a reflection of the closer relationship that Alex has with each of them, even with Penny. Overall, I think it was a remarkable story of persistence and courage as well as dedication and loyalty. SPOILER: When Alex goes to visit his former coworkers, he’s told that there was not a third person in the building. “There hadn’t been anyone else in the building? I had lost my legs for nothing? I swallowed the rising heat, pushing the thought away until a later date.” He never revisited this thought. August 8, 2020
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