Review: Tainted – K. A. Robinson

Part One: Facing My Demons
Drake lost everything the day Chloe walked away from him. Feeling angry and hurt by her abandonment, he dives deeper into his cocaine use. Each day becomes a struggle for him. After his band is picked up by a recording studio in Los Angeles, things go from bad to worse. What happens to a man who has lost everything he ever truly cared about?

Part Two: Learning to Love Again
When Drake showed up on Chloe’s doorstep, begging for forgiveness, she couldn’t turn him away. To Chloe, loving Drake is like breathing and she couldn’t bring herself to let him go again.

But what happens next? Follow Chloe and Drake as they learn to forgive and heal together.

Will Drake’s fame get in the way of their happily ever after? Or is love enough to keep them together?

The epic conclusion to Drake and Chloe’s story.

Series: Torn #3
Release Date: January 23rd 2014
Publisher: K.A. Robinson Publishing LLC
Source: Provided by Author
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

If you’ve read any of the Torn series by K. A. Robinson, then you know the story of Chloe and Drake.  And while their story probably could have ended where it did at the end of book two, the author gives us just a little bit more to show us what Drake and Chloe went through to get to that epilogue at the end of TWISTED.

Broken up into three parts.  In part one we get Drake’s POV as he deals with the fallout from his addiction and the steps he takes to overcome them.  It’s not an easy fight and it’s one that Drake struggles with for half the book.  But we do finally get to the root cause for Drake’s addiction and see the light at the end of the tunnel when he finally recognizes that too.  It’s by no means an easy road for Drake, he knows what his prize is if he does overcome all of this.  So he fights.  And it’s a good fight that gets him back to a healthy place and forces him to grow up.

Part two is from Chloe’s POV three months after she and Drake have gotten back together.  She’s finally moving with him to LA and it’s during the road trip that Chloe asks the hard questions from Drake and is open to listening.  She’s knows he will face a daily battle with his addiction, but she knows he needs her complete faith in him.  Where Chloe would have kept things to herself, she now voices her concerns, asks the hard questions and puts building their relationship in front of the very physical responses they had to each other before.  And just like Drake, Chloe is forced to grow up a bit too.

The final part takes place several months after the epilogue, told in Drake’s POV again.  This is the HEA for Chloe and Drake as they start their family together.  It was nice to see their devotion to one another and that they did take time for themselves before they started a family.  But you could tell, just for this short part of the book, that they are settled and ready to take on this next challenge in their lives.

If you haven’t read the Torn series, they you absolutely must before picking this one up.  For those that have, it’s a perfect ending for a couple that had a really rocky start, but managed to find a way to fight to make it work.