Review: The Stillness of You – Julie Bale

 Georgia King is trying to survive after spiraling into a darkness that nearly took her life. In therapy and with her college dreams on hold,she’s trying to get healthy. Trying to still the craziness inside her. She has no room for someone like Ben Lancaster,and if he was smart he’d stay away. Because everyone knows Georgia is bad news. Everyone knows she ruins people. And if Ben isn’t careful, he’ll be next in line.

Ben Lancaster is a young, hot shot hockey player on his way to the top. Newly signed to the Philadelphia Flyers, he’s living the dream. The girls. The money. The fame. He thought he had everything he could want until he met Georgia. Suddenly he wants more–he wants her. He’ll do whatever it takes to get her and Ben Lancaster always gets what he wants.

But the girl who’s different from anyone he’s ever known is hiding secrets. And as the dog days of summer pass, only time will tell if Georgia’s secrets can be healed. Or if her bruised soul is strong enough to resist Ben Lancaster…

Series:  Beautifully Damaged
Release Date:  March 12, 2013
Publisher:  Julie Bale
Source:   Provided by Author
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

This was a book that was dark, gritty and unlike anything I’ve read by Julie Bale’s alter ego, Juliana Stone.  It’s falls into the bucket of New Adult books that have come out recently with tortured, somewhat broken characters, but it was one that I most definitely enjoyed.

Georgia King is a young woman at a crossroads.  Does she let the issues of her past pull her under or does she believe in herself and work towards being the person she wants to be?  It’s a tough question for Georgia to face when it’s just herself and her brother that she’s dealing with.  But when you add in NHL hot shot, Ben Lancaster, it almost spells a recipe for disaster.  Good thing for Georgia, Ben sees who she is, deep down, and will be whoever and whatever Georgia needs to be who she wants to be.

The subject matter is dark.  Georgia has some pretty HUGE issues and she has difficulty dealing with her feelings about herself and what she feels for Ben.  She doesn’t always handle situations in the best way or makes decisions that will make a reader a bit angry, but you feel for her.  There were many times were I have anxiously reading the pages because I was worried about just what Georgia was going to do.

I loved this story and I can’t wait to see what else Julie Bale has for us with this New Adult series.  I feel like the story of Georgia and Ben isn’t finished and need that definitive HEA for this young couple.