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<span id="freeText11080802319642791188">Title: Harder </span><span id="freeText11080802319642791188">(Caroline & West #2) </span><br />
<span id="freeText11080802319642791188">Author: Robin York </span><br />
<span id="freeText11080802319642791188">Genre: New Adult</span><br />
<span id="freeText11080802319642791188">Rating: 5 Stars!</span><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><b><span id="freeText11080802319642791188">Synopsis</span></b></i><br />
<span id="freeText11080802319642791188"> </span><br />
<span id="freeText11080802319642791188">Caroline still dreams
about West. His warm skin, his taut muscles, his hand sliding down her
stomach. Then she wakes up and she’s back to reality: West is gone. And
before he left, he broke her heart.<br /> <br /> Then, out of the blue,
West calls in crisis. A tragedy has hit his family—a family that’s
already a fractured mess. Caroline knows what she has to do. Without
discussion, without stopping to think, she’s on a plane, flying to his
side to support him in any way he needs.<br /> <br /> They’re together
again, but things are totally different. West looks edgy, angry at the
world. Caroline doesn’t fit in. She should be back in Iowa, finalizing
her civil suit against the ex-boyfriend who posted their explicit
pictures on a revenge porn website. But here she is. Deeply into West,
wrapped up in him, in love with him. <em>Still</em>. <br /> <br /> They fought the odds once. Losing each other was hard. But finding their way back to each other couldn’t be harder.</span></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>My Review</b></i></div>
<br />
It's one of those 'difficult to read and even more difficult to rate'
books. My usual M.O. for books that have this type plot device would be
to DNF it so fast or get ragey about it. My friends know this about me
and I have stepped on my soapbox on more than one occasion. But once in a
while it works and it adds another layer to the story. It doesn't make
for an easy read but once the rage is over, you get that nice little HEA
at the end, it makes everything worth it.<br /><br />
<blockquote>
<strong>"All the songs are love songs, and this one is ours."</strong>
</blockquote>
<br /><br />Harder picks up 3 months after Deeper ended. West
is in Silt and Caroline is in Putnam. For all intents and purposes, they
were over. Caroline and West was no more. I think this is an important
thing to remember, at least for me, in light of happens at 20% in the
book.<br /><br />When West's biological father died, Caroline decided to be
there for West even though West doesn't want her anywhere near Silt.
When they saw each other, everything was different. West wasn't the same
guy Caro fell in love with. He was basically a stranger: bitter, angry
and desperate.<br /><br />Caroline did the best she could to be there for
him but West was having none of it. And in what could be the cruelest
and most boneheaded move ever, West set out to destroy Caroline's hope
for him the only way he knows how: <a class="jsShowSpoiler spoilerAction" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null">(view spoiler)</a>Gerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385855676338788218noreply@blogger.com0