Review ~~ Thick & Thin by Eden Butler
TITLE: Thick & Thin
AUTHOR: Eden Butler
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
RELEASE DATE: July 25, 2016
SYNOPSIS:
My love was thick.
Her faith was thin.
Somewhere in the middle is where life found us.
I claimed her when I was a boy.
I held her until I was a man.
She was my first thought every morning, my last smile at night, and a million memories in between.
Then one night, with her warmth still lingering on the sheets, Aly King walked away from me, from us, from our life.
They say time heals all wounds, but not for me.
Not when my heart is empty.
Not when there is nothing but a sea of meaningless faces wherever I go.
It always comes back to her.
Aly needs reminding of how drunk our love made us, before she forgets completely.
Before we lose our chance.
Before we are irrevocably broken.
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Stephanie’s Gut-wrenching & emotional, 5 Star Review
This is the conclusion of Aly & Ransom’s story. Thick Love ended with Aly receiving a marriage proposal on stage at the finale of her dance studio’s recital. Great news, right? Unfortunately the guy proposing wasn’t Ransom. It’s Ethan Willis. Lawyer, dare devil and all around nice guy.
Aly met Ethan when he came to complain about the noise from her dance studio. Ethan is fun and free spirited. Always looking for a thrill and his next accomplishment. He is crazy for Aly.
As college sweethearts, Aly & Ransom somehow drifted apart. Ransom is playing football for Miami Dolphins. Aly struggles to find her place in Miami. She finds herself taking frequent trips back to New Orleans. First to help out in her friends dance studio, eventually running and then owning the studio. The dance studio….in New Orleans not Miami. They have strong roots in New Orleans.
Aly is fierce, independent, strong, passionate. Ransom is alpha, strong, stubborn, and loyal. Things fall apart between Aly & Ransom.
‘College, the NFL draft, her career, her ambition, the struggle of being in love with me, we survived it all. At least, I thought we had. Until that October night. Until I could not convince her to stay another minute.’
“No matter where I go, Ransom, my heart will stay with you.”
Fast forward four years. Ransom watches the proposal before his eyes and it hits him. He lost his Aly.
‘Relationships fall apart when we stop tending to them. Aly and I let our lives happen without paying attention to each other. We’d become selfish, needy for the things we wanted from each other. We forgot what we wanted together.’
This story will tear you up. It is so emotional at times. I was yelling at my kindle and it was only chapter 3! Eden Butler ripped my entire heart out. But as she says, life is messy. Then came Chapter 17! Really!!?
Be prepared for a ride. You’ll be tossed around and then finally grounded. I loved the end scene but I am a selfish girl and Eden, you know what I want!!!! I’m glad the story has concluded. Not sure I could take anymore.
Take the dive by starting with Thin Love. You will feel happy, sad, upset, tearful and every other emotion out there. This is a great series.
“You and me are end game” Ransom
THICK & THIN EXCERPT
“You don’t want to remember?”
I didn’t. Not a single memory. A touch that was new, a taste that was different—that’s what I wanted. Memory came with emotion. It came with commitment, something that would land me back where I’d begun four years ago. I wanted to move beyond that. I wanted more.
“I…I want you to touch me like you don’t know me.” That hand slowed, the friction easing and I couldn’t look at him. “I want you to touch me like a stranger.”
He didn’t stop moving against me. Ransom wasn’t purposefully cruel. He thought he knew me, assumed he knew when I was pretending. But I wasn’t this time. I wanted him to give me what I asked for, not what he thought I wanted, not what I had wanted in the past. But he couldn’t do it. No, he wasn’t a stranger. He knew how close I’d come to climax. So he didn’t stop, only slowed before he moved his hips, release my wrist to pull my face up. And because I recognized how badly he wanted this, and knew that I would end up wanting it, too, I let go of wanting anything else and gave myself up to his touch, his fire, his desire.
“A stranger doesn’t touch you, Aly. Not like this.” And with that one touch, Ransom fractured the reserve I had tried so desperately to maintain. A push of my flesh, finger under my thong, right against my clit, bare, raw and that tactile, desperate urgency eased.
“A stranger wouldn’t know what you whimper when you want it, when you’re so close to falling apart that your breath becomes a muffle of sound.” He tugged at my pants, freed me from anything but the floor under me and his touch. His palm over my naked ass, then he pulled me against his body until he pushed his fingers inside me, working me hard, like no one but Ransom ever had. Ever could.
“No stranger would know that your breath hitches, that you hold everything still, the air in your lungs, even the beat of your pulse when I touch you.” He showed me then, with the dip of his fingers deep inside. And all did go still then—the breath between us, the axis of the world, my beating heart…it all seemed to stop until he moved his fingers over me, sliding until he found his way to a rhythm that made time coil and speed as quickly as it had slowed. Nothing held me back then. No excuses of why he shouldn’t touch me, no lies I told myself about not loving him anymore.
“I’m not a stranger, nani. Your body knows that.” Working faster, deeper, he smiled, pleased and happy when my mouth opened, when the space between us filled with the soft noises I made. His face wasn’t expressionless anymore. It told me all I thought I’d forgotten. The act of touching me, making me come, the noises I made, it was all familiar to Ransom. It was comfortable.
“Strangers don’t know love this deep. If they did, they wouldn’t be strangers at all.” That he whispered against my lips, kissing me like he couldn’t keep from it for another second.
“Ransom…”
“I’ll never be a stranger, Aly, because this body, your heart is mine. It always will be.”
ABOUT EDEN
Eden Butler is an editor and writer of Fantasy, Mystery and Contemporary Romance novels and the nine-times great-granddaughter of an honest-to-God English pirate. This could explain her affinity for rule breaking and rum.
When she’s not writing or wondering about her possibly Jack Sparrowesque ancestor, Eden patiently waits for her Hogwarts letter, edits, reads and spends way too much time watching rugby, Doctor Who and New Orleans Saints football.
She is currently living under teenage rule alongside her husband in southeast Louisiana.
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