4.5 STARS!
WOW... I loved Dom and Drew in Truth but Pucci has raised the bar with Luca and Gretchen. The connection, the possessiveness, the heat, the obsession, the heartbreak and pain and the full-circle journey was one of the most emotional (and hottest!) things I have read in some time.
We met Luca King in book 1, he is the twin brother to Dom, married to a horrible woman, and father to his beautiful baby girl Ella. When readers first encounter the spark, the want between Luca and Gretchen, it's wrong that this feeling is between them when he is married and I didn't know what to feel until I met and fully understood his wife Shelby. (UGH!)
But Gretchen is a good girl at heart, battling her own demons with the loss of her father and while knowing what is wrong and right, she can't help but feel something more for this alpha man. With her sassiness and spunk and fire, she is the only one to tame this man and bring him to his knees.
Coupled with the secondary characters who I just LOVE with my whole heart, this is a family and nothing can tear them apart. The action, the suspense, the push and pull made my heart race and tears come to my eyes for this man who only wanted to worship the only woman he has ever loved and the woman who would be the only one to ever truly know the REAL him and what he is saying without saying all the words out loud. Oh and let's not even talk about going to Church... OMG HOT!
I just LOVED this book, reading it in one sitting and am OBSESSED with what upcoming stories the author will give us next. I love this little world she created, the layers within the story and the characters themselves and this new-to-me author has a forever fan. I am literally DYING for what comes next and I can't freakin wait!!!