Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Full Measure – Rebecca Yarros

She knew. That’s why Mom hadn’t opened the door. She knew he was dead.

Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn’t know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart.

Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next-door neighbor, and not to mention the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again. He has a way of erasing the pain with a single look, a single touch. As much as she wants to turn off her feelings and endure the heartache on her own, she can’t deny their intense attraction.

Until Josh’s secret shatters their world. And Ember must decide if he’s worth the risk that comes with loving a man who could strip her bare.

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Release Date: February 10th 2014
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Source: Inkslinger PR
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Get your Kleenex handy!!!  This one had me crying, right off the bat.  Once I got my emotions under control, I was absolutely in love with the story of December (Ember) and Josh.  They were incredible characters trying desperately to deal with the hands they’d been dealt while figuring out how “they” would work.

The book starts off incredibly sad.  I wasn’t joking when I said you needed to have the kleenex ready.  Rebecca Yarros writing style puts you in the room with Ember, April, Gus and June after Ember opened the front door.  It’s devastating, but at the same time we realize just how strong Ember is.  She would do anything for her family, including giving up her dreams.  She literally puts her grief aside to deal with the things her mother can’t while helping her sister and brother.  Amazing!  But then Ember is dealt another blow and you have to wonder just how much bad stuff is this girl going to have to endure?  But she doesn’t let it beat her down (entirely).  She has her moments when she lets it all to get her, but then she pulls herself out of the moment and moves on.

A big part of why Ember is able to keep going is Josh Walker.  Her little brother’s hockey coach, he is also the guy she had a crush on in high school who unwittingly seems to be with Ember each time she needs support.  He tells her she supports everyone and he’s there to support her…and he does.  Josh isn’t completely selfless when it comes to Ember.  He wants her for himself and tells her he won’t quit until she’s his.  He’s determined he and Ember will be together, even hiding something very important about himself because he knows her feelings on the subject.  But his feelings for her are genuine and no matter what Ember dishes out to him, he’s still there for her (even if it breaks his heart).

I loved Josh and Ember together.  Their chemistry was off the charts and at times I was right there with Ember begging Josh to cave.  Josh was the perfect antidote to Ember’s dumbass ex.  He showed her how she was meant to be loved.  It took a bit for Ember to believe it, but in the end he made her believe in herself, her dreams and in their love.

Rebecca Yarros is definitely going on my must buy list of authors.  Her writing style has you running the gamut of emotions, but in the end it’s well worth it.

Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and lover of all things chocolate, coffee, and Paleo. In addition to being a mom, military wife, and blogger, she can never choose between Young Adult and New Adult fiction, so she writes both. She’s a graduate of Troy University, where she studied European history and English, but still holds out hope for an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Her blog, The Only Girl Among Boys, has been voted the Top Military Mom Blog the last two years, and celebrates the complex issues surrounding the military life she adores.

When she’s not writing, she’s tying on hockey skates for her kids, or sneaking in some guitar time. She is madly in love with her army-aviator husband of eleven years, and they’re currently stationed in Upstate NY with their gaggle of rambunctious kiddos and snoring English Bulldog, but she would always rather be home in Colorado.

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