Title: Secret Lucidity
Author: E.K. Blair
Genre: Student/Teacher Forbidden Romance
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Blurb
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
But it did.
This wasn’t supposed to be my life.
But it was.
I was just a typical girl, living a typical life. Nothing was out of the ordinary until tragedy threw me into a turnstile I couldn’t see my way out of. That was, until him.
I never could’ve imagined my heart falling the way it did. Hard, fast, and with unbounding beauty.
The only problem?
He was off limits.
Forbidden.
But he became my everything, and I became his, so we risked it all. It was only a matter of time until I realized that our risk came with unimaginable consequences.
My name is Camellia Hale and his is David Andrews, and this is our love story.
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Review
"It hurts to cry, so I don't. It hurts to smile, so I don't. It hurts to pretend, so I hide. I'm vanishing."
This story.
Even after a few days to process everything I've read...I'm still at a loss for words.
What I can say is how it's made me feel...one word.
Everything.
I felt everything. Every single emotion. From the very beginning, I connected with Cam. I felt everything she went through, and I cried. Gosh, I cried. The loss she suffered, the isolation and loneliness, even the disconnect and bullying. The drama she faced as she tried to piece her life back together rang so true to how life really is for teens today...and of course, my heart broke for her. When it carried over into her home, I lost it. I was broken. Everything Cam felt, I have felt. The feeling of being invisible, I've lived that. The pure emptiness that the walls of her home--her safe place--became, it was almost too much to bear.
Yet, she did. Cam got up every day and faced life...some days better than others...but in the end, all she needed was one person who understood. One person she could turn to, someone who was present.
Love. Strength. Comfort.
David Andrews. Her coach, her teacher.
"I don't need a man who tucks my darkness into a distant corner. I need a man that will dance with it, nurture it, and tell me that in such a vigorous world, it's the most stunning things he's ever seen. A man that will find the terrible traits in me and be content to love me anyway."
And...that's where things get fuzzy. Lines get crossed. New secrets emerge. The darkness takes hold and takes over. Cam spirals so low, while still trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy and while she hides it well from everyone on the outside...she can't hide from the one person who truly sees her.
Every flaw. Every crack. Every single tear she's shed...
Until the whistle is blown and the freedom she thought was so close is ripped from her grasp in the most brutal of ways. For a second time, Cam (or maybe it was the third) must learn to survive. Learn to move on. Find her release...it isn't pretty.
And the scars...oh, the scars.
"You were always the one thing that felt like home to me, and even though I found a way to exist without you, a part of me has always been lost...until now."
E.K. Blair has once again given us a story with so many layers, so much depth, so many different raw emotions, that it's hard to pinpoint just one. In short, I loved it. But that doesn't seem like enough because what went through me as I read was deeper than that.
I ached. Physically. Emotionally. Even spiritually. The spectrum of emotion in this story is something very few authors can deliver. Blair did it flawlessly.
**5 Skin Deep, Stars**
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Author Bio
New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling author, E.K. Blair, takes her readers on an emotional roller coaster with her books. Blair tends to drift towards love stories that are deeply layered with emotional angst. Give her a character and she will dig into their core to find what lies beneath.
Aside from writing, E.K. Blair finds pleasure in music, drinking her Starbucks in peace and spending time with her friends and family. She's a thinker, an artist, a wife, a mom, and everything in between.
Aside from writing, E.K. Blair finds pleasure in music, drinking her Starbucks in peace and spending time with her friends and family. She's a thinker, an artist, a wife, a mom, and everything in between.
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