Review: Fallen Too Far – Abbie Glines

To want what you’re not supposed to have…

She is only nineteen.

She is his new stepfather’s daughter.

She is still naïve and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother.

But for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.

Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous. He is also getting under her skin. She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that…

Blaire just may have fallen too far.

Series:  Fallen Too Far #1
Release Date:  December 14, 2012
Publisher:  Abbi Glines
Source:  Amazon, via my own wallet
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

This book took a turn I wasn’t suspecting and completely ripped my heart out at the end.

Blaire loses her mother after a long battle with cancer and reaches out to the only family she has left…the father than abandoned her and her mother five years earlier. But what Blaire finds when she arrives at the address her father gave her was a raging party and a step-brother who was way too rude to her for words. With no place else to go, Blaire finds herself immersed in the world of her step-brother, Rush Finley and his group of entitled friends. But for a girl from small town Alabama, the secrets, lies and whiplash emotions may be too much for her to take.

As I read this, my heart went out to Blaire, over and over. From the abandonment from her father (again) to Rush’s flip-flopping attitude towards her to the animosity she dealt with from the wealthy set in the Florida beach town she’d moved to. It’s a lot for a nineteen year old girl to take, on top of dealing with her mother’s recent death. But Blaire does have this inner strength to her that managed to help her keep her head high when she other tried to beat her down. I applauded her and her ability to stick up for herself. But my heart also broke for her when she faced the ultimate betrayal.

Rush was a mixed bag. When we first met him, he was a complete ass. But as the story moves along you can see a break in his a-hole exterior to the type of man he’d be if the crap from his family didn’t taint his views and actions. By the end of the story, I wasn’t sure who I felt worse for…Blaire or Rush, because in the end Rush had finally given himself to one person and had that all pulled out from under him because of his family. Sure he played a part in what happened, but I still felt bad for him because he was just a kid doing what he thought was right despite his mother’s twisted idea of relationships/family.

I CANNOT wait for the next book in this series to come out in March. There is definitely some unfinished business between Blaire and Rush, I just hope family dynamics don’t ruin things for them.