Release Date: September 6, 2018

Mess Me Up by Lani Lynn Vale

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was aptly named. It literally Messed Me Up. Again, Lani Lynn Vale has managed to completely surprise me and make me question my own sanity as to why i let books affect me as much this one did. Then again, it goes a long way to say that a book has the ability to make you feel things that you had long since thought wouldn't hurt you.

I cried. Like a lot as i read this book. So much so that i had a migraine that followed me around for days following me finishing this story. There is nothing that can prepare a person to lose someone that is close to you as the relationship that exists between a parent and a child. Let's face it - there have been more debates online about what to call parents when they lose a child and no one has been able to put a label on it considering that there are labels for every other type of loss.

Neither is there anything that can truly prepare you for the time it takes to overcome your grief. The emotions that i have after finishing this book is still with me even after all these days and weeks after i read this book by Lani Lynn Vale.

There is no way to fully explain to readers just how much this book will impact you. The only thing i can say is that it's one of those books that you really need to get your hands on this story and experience it.

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When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and soul—as well as his son’s.

Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play professional football. Not with the Bare Bottom MC cut covering his back, and definitely not with his friendly smile completely obliterated.

No longer is there charm in each smooth word that comes out of his mouth. What’s left is an angry, bitter, scared man that’s terrified one day he’s going to wake up and his entire world is going to be gone.

Nobody knows what drove him to leave the game he loved—nobody but her.

She’s the one person that has helped him make it through the dark days and even darker nights. She’s the bright and shining star in his pitch-black sky.

And he doesn’t even know her name.

He should be afraid that she knows things that not anyone—not even his best friend—knows.

Yet, with each encounter, he gives what little bit of his soul remains, and before he knows it only two people on this earth—one dying, and one too afraid to live—make his life worth living.

Until one day he has to choose—the love of his life, or the life he brought into this world.

Two impossible situations. One decision that would change him forever.

When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and soul—as well as his son’s.

Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play professional football. Not with the Bare Bottom MC cut covering his back, and definitely not with his friendly smile completely obliterated.

No longer is there charm in each smooth word that comes out of his mouth. What’s left is an angry, bitter, scared man that’s terrified one day he’s going to wake up and his entire world is going to be gone.

Nobody knows what drove him to leave the game he loved—nobody but her.

She’s the one person that has helped him make it through the dark days and even darker nights. She’s the bright and shining star in his pitch-black sky.

And he doesn’t even know her name.

He should be afraid that she knows things that not anyone—not even his best friend—knows.

Yet, with each encounter, he gives what little bit of his soul remains, and before he knows it only two people on this earth—one dying, and one too afraid to live—make his life worth living.

Until one day he has to choose—the love of his life, or the life he brought into this world.

Two impossible situations. One decision that would change him forever.

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