Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Amber to Ashes by Gail McHugh

AMBER TO ASHES is most definitely something different from Gail McHugh.  It’s gritty, infuriating at times, but with two very hot, sexy male characters vying for the love of one girl trying to piece her life back together.

There were many times when I found it really hard to like Amber, Brock or Ryder.  Each of them carry a ton of emotional baggage into the relationships they built with each other.  So it was easy to forgive some of the choices they made based on that baggage.  But then there were other times when the three of them, either together or separately did or said something that just made it hard to like them.  As I said above, this story is gritty.  The profession the boys are in is not one that I, personally, could even fathom or approve of.  The events from all three of their pasts continue to drag them down.  But behind it all was three kids who discovered that together they soothed a part of what ached in someone else.

I’m not a big fan of love triangles, because undoubtedly the guy I want the girl with never wins.  As I read AMBER TO ASHES, I figured that is going to be the case (because I really liked Brock with Amber).  Each of the guys bring a little something different to the table for Amber, but they do both use Amber’s very bad coping mechanism against her:  sex.  She knows its happening, but she never stops it.  Instead falling back into old habits.  I’m not sure if the guys realize they’re doing it, since they seem to use sex as a way to blow off steam.  But I think the sex with this triangle makes things ugly.  Amber can’t trust what’s she’s feeling, for either guy, because of what she equates sex to.

AMBER TO ASHES wasn’t one of those books that left you feeling good when you got to the last page.  I was sad and felt like I’d been dragged across a parking lot.  That said, I’m invested in this story and need to know what happens with this triangle.  Things are looking good as this book ended and I have a feeling what transpires in the next will definitely make me feel like I’ve been dragged through the emotional wringer.

Gail McHugh is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Collide and Pulse. She is the mother of three beautiful children and has been married to her husband for fifteen years.

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