Tied (All Torn Up #2)

Carian Cole doesn\’t just tell a story, but rather takes you on a realistically beautiful journey. I own every book available by this author on audible and can\’t wait for more. This author\’s way of really humanizing her characters is like nothing I\’ve ever experienced while listening to a book before. Life and the people in it aren\’t always a pretty fairy tale and she captures that good and evil balance perfectly. I also love that all of Carian\’s book\’s include animal rescues. By always weaving this subject matter in the stories she writes brings awareness to the furry friends that so desperately need our help. Carian, is one of the best story tellers of her time. She has a unique way of making you understand her complex characters, describing the scenes without unnecessary information, and wrapping her endings up in a believable way. Everything is balanced so nicely. I hope her writing style never changes. Now on to the spoiler free review. Tyler is a hermit in the woods. An outcast from society his physical scars make it hard for him to go in public because of the stares and judgement he receives. He\’s content with his solitary life spending time creating beautiful things and rescuing animals. One day he rescues Holly from a horrific situation. Misunderstandings about that day changes things for both of them. Flash forward year\’s later.. Holly feels like no one can completely understand her and what she\’s endured. The one thing she never forgot about that night was the prince who saved her. When the universe puts these soul mates back in each others path\’s they only find comfort from their abnormal lives when they are spending together. They give one another the courage to heal. She see\’s the real man behind the scare\’s and he soothes her PTSD. Love and intimacy blossom very slowly because Tyler is respectful, patient and cautious of her past. The prologue was absolutely wonderful!! It made me want to hear more. I think Ava and Guy did a great job making this memorably mesmerizing story even better. This book was not only worth the credit, but the wait. It was certainly more than I anticipated and my expectations were high. *Now a little warning* this book does deal with heavy subject matter like alcohol, drugs, death, and child abuse. I hope this doesn\’t discourage anyone from listening because you will be so absorbed you won\’t be able to pause it. Even though there are a couple of beautifully written sex scenes between Holly and Tyler the main focus of this book is not the sex. It\’s about two broken people finding everlasting love.

This isn\’t a sweet easy-going listen.. instead the only fairytales are the ones a six year old girl has in her backpack when she\’s abducted.. ones that become everything to her in the eleven years of her captivity and abuse. She knew only the stories in those well-loved books and when she was able to watch tv alone in the basement if she\’d been a good girl.. and then her Prince came and saved her. A damaged scarred blue-eyed Prince who had his own tragedies and demons to fight.. but slowly, over time, these two broken people saw the beauty beneath the scars, healed and helped one another to get their own special fairytale HEA ending. Worth a credit? Again, Carian Cole pushes the boundaries to give a very different unconventional love story and it was heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measures.. and it\’s hauntingly tragic as it is hauntingly beautiful. Intense dual POV story, good narration and yes, imo, creditworthy.

This was a book filled with tragedy and heartbreak. But most of all love and understanding. For two souls trying to find there way back into a life that they thought they could never have. There\’s only one Love scene at the end that is tender caring and and something they never thought they would each find together. I usually enjoy my romance books with more sexual encounters but this is a book filled with so much feeling that I never missed not having it. Well worth my credit and then some.

It was a good book, I enjoyed it, but I wish she got to experience life instead of settle. Being a sexual abused victim myself I would of like to see her go out and experience the world and find out who she is without any man, she\’s never been with out a man before and she should have found herself. And Tyler being older and has lived before should of understood and let her live because she never truly lived a life before and then after a few years of experience of life then it would of been romantic if she went to college got a degree made friends and dates to find out that she wanted Tyler all along. Felt like Tyler was holding her back from allot.. like the double date, taking her out just the 2 of them

This long awaited audiobook by the wonderful Carian Cole is the story of Tyler, a reclusive and damaged young man who lives in a cabin in a deeply wooded area. When out walking one day he hears a sound and finds a girl in a hole underground covered by a door. After rescuing her and dealing with her kidnapper, she goes to a psychiatric facility for two years. The story is complex and twists around, keeping your attention rapt. When she meets him again, they are both drawn to one another despite their trust issues. Can two horribly damaged people come together and save each other? Great narration as well!

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