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Aside from her dad, who passed away when she was six, Cassidy Jameson has only ever trusted one man: her best friend, Tyler. So of course she follows him to Texas when he leaves for college. She just didn't expect to be so drawn to their new roommate, Gage, a gorgeous guy with a husky Southern drawl. The only problem? He's Tyler's cousin.
Gage Carson was excited to share an apartment off campus with his cousin. He didn't mind that Tyler was bringing the mysterious friend he'd heard about since they were kids . . . until the most beautiful girl he's ever seen jumps out of his cousin's Jeep. There's something about Cassi that makes Gage want to give her everything. Too bad Tyler has warned him that she's strictly off-limits.
Despite everything keeping them apart, Cassi and Gage dance dangerously close to the touch they've both been craving. But when disaster sends her running into Tyler's arms, Cassi will have to decide whether to face the demons of herpast . . . or to burn her chance at a future with Gage.
- Sales Rank: #53678 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-11
- Released on: 2012-12-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“From Ashes kicks off with a bang and holds nothing back. You’ll be enthralled, romanced by the wonderfully spun tale of love and acceptance, and hoping for a Gage of your own.” (Jennifer L. Armentrout, USA TODAY Bestselling Author)
About the Author
Molly McAdams grew up in California but now lives in the oh-so-amazing state of Texas with her husband, daughter, and fur babies. Her hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and long walks on the beach . . . which roughly translates to being a homebody with her hubby and dishing out movie quotes.
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
If you like your heroes dominant and heroines perfect on the outside while wanting to be rescued on the inside,this is your book
By Andrea @ The Busy Bibliophile
**Mild spoilers ahead**
I'm going to break the book down for all you potential readers. Here's the entire first half of the book, summed up in 2 conversations:
Cassidy: "I really like Gage."
Tyler: "He doesn't like you at all."
Cassidy: "Are you sure? He looks at me like he really likes me."
Tyler: "Nope. He can barely stand you."
Cassidy: "Oh. Okay. I could go talk to him myself, but I'll just take your word for it."
***
Gage: "I really like Cassidy."
Tyler: "She doesn't like you at all."
Gage: "Really? She looks at me like she really digs me."
Tyler: "Nope. She's my girlfriend and we have sex all the time. By the way, she can't stand you."
Gage: "Oh. Okay. I could go talk to her myself, but I'll trust you."
Now imagine those 2 scenes taking place in different places and with different specifics, but always with the same underlying message. So now that you have the gist for the first half, here's the second:
Cassidy: "Oh, something happened [Gage looked at me the wrong way, I overheard something, I misunderstood something, et al]. I'm going to run away from the situation now."
Gage: "Oh no, she's run away again. I'm so unhappy. I can't live without her. She's the one. I hope she comes back."
Cassidy: "I'm over it. I love you."
Gage: "Love you, too."
And there. No need to read the book now. You're welcome.
Just in case you want the specifics (party pooper), I'll go ahead and do a real review now. So, I understand instant lust and instant like, but I don't understand instant love. When you feel the pull of someone before you even know they're in the room, when you feel like they're the one before you've even met them, that seems a bit much to me. At any rate, it appears Cassidy and Gage are meant to be but Tyler is doing everything he can to prevent that (and being a real douche canoe about it, too). But that wouldn't have mattered if either one of them had taken the time to talk to each other at all. But they didn't. They kept talking all around what they should have been talking about. I think one or two times would be forgivable, but that went on for a year and a half! You would think any normal person would have had the chance to talk about their feelings at least once during that time.
But Cassidy was frail and afraid after having a completely s***** upbringing. Quite possibly the s******* upbringing ever, in fact. Maybe because of it, she was on the tentative and naïve side. Luckily (for all the guys) she was a looker who could cook and loved all sports. Which leads to another absurdity - every single guy Cassidy met fell in love/lust with her. They wanted her or someone just like her, whether for a roll in the hay or a lifetime commitment. She must have been exuding some sort of pheromones because she couldn't keep the guys away. There were at least 14 guys hitting on her, expressing their connection with her or telling Gage how amazingly lucky he was, throughout the book. We get it. Everyone liked her.
Gage was a lot like Travis from Beautiful Disaster, except with a little less violence. He wanted to own Cassidy (and even said those exact words, I believe), not just be with her. And even better, he didn't want anyone flirting with her, touching her or even looking at her. Though he did have a temper on him, and did get in a fight or two, that wasn't his dominant instinct. Tyler was the real villain of the book, and he played the part well. At first you thought he was the greatest guy ever, for always being there for her when they were growing up. And truly, she needed someone to be on her side (I'm not kidding about the s***** upbringing). But once they were living with Gage, he turned into a completely different person. And once the truth was out, Cassidy (and Gage) forgave him so easily, much easier than I would have.
The plot was entertaining, I enjoyed seeing Cassidy become a stronger person and learn to accept her past trauma and even move beyond it. The hardest thing for her was to actually accept that it had happened, admit it to herself and then learn to talk about it with those closest to her. For the longest time, she just talked about it like she was an observer, not the actual victim. It was impossible for her to move on without that acceptance. And even Gage and Tyler matured and learned some lessons in the end, so that was nice.
I understand that Molly McAdams' previous book ended on an unhappy note, but you don't have to be worried about that here. There's a satisfying conclusion, though it almost seems tacked on, with parts that feel unnecessary. I like the cover, it gives a real sense of what the book is about. Overall, this was an entertaining book that had some good and some not so good qualities.
78 of 89 people found the following review helpful.
This book keeps going and going and going.
By BookGeek
It would be dishonest for me to say that I did not like parts of this book. I have no problem with the first half. I thought the love story was sweet and really rooted for Gage and Cassidy. I got to the halfway mark and realized that this book is very similar to the energizer bunny. It just keeps going and going and going. By the time I read 51% of this book I literally could not understand why the story kept going. The antagonists change their tune, so the author brings in new antagonists. The couple figures out that they have a communication problem and then continue not communicating! Not to harp on this point, but it's as if this book consists of the first, second and the third book in a trilogy.
This book is melodramatic. I don't mean, because Cassidy was abused as a child or because the main characters are absolutely horrible at communication. This book is melodramatic, because of the dialogue, because the characters are ridiculously unrealistic and because too much happens. Honestly, more happens to these characters in a yearlong period than in the lifespan of a normal person. Halfway into the book the author introduces a new character that comes with his own set of drama. Then 75% in a new love interest is thrown in to shake things up. Why? I honestly don't understand why these characters were introduced. How is the reader supposed to be invested or even care about these new characters? They came 75% in, obviously they're not important, now you're just making us suffer through your ridiculous story. I say suffer, because very few people will quit a book after reading 75% of it.
Then there are the characters. I understand why authors make their heroine's damaged and tragic. Some of my favorite characters in literature are damaged. No, I do not mind a damaged heroine; I do mind a stupid heroine. Cassidy is stupid. I get that she's had a traumatic past and has issues with trust, getting to know people and taking care of herself. That is all clear, still I found her to be incredibly stupid. The first half of this book consists of misdirection and miscommunication. There were moments where Cassidy's inability to read a situation astounded me. I could not believe how difficult it was for her to see that she was being manipulated and lied to. Having common sense really can save you grief in life and Cassidy has none of it.
Then there is Tyler. Ty is an affront to best friends everywhere. At this moment there is a BFF giving their friend half of their dinner, because they know their friend doesn't have any. There is a BFF asking their parents if their abused friend can stay the night so that their friend can have a night of peace. It goes on and on. The fact that Ty could go from that BFF to the bastard he became is beyond my comprehension. It is fine that he loves Cassidy. It is fine that he wants to continue to be the number one man in her life. Everything else about this character is awful and I have to admit unrealistic. He emotionally blackmails, manipulates and abuses not only the girl he has spent his life tending, but also the cousin who takes him in. Worst of all, this side of him comes out of nowhere.
Finally, the love story. Gage and Cassidy see each other and are immediately in love. I don't really believe in love at first sight, but many authors have been able to make this work. The problem is not how easily they fall in love. The problem is how quickly both characters begin planning forever, before they even speak to each other. I found all the inner thoughts of Gage to be unrealistic. McAdams really needed to talk to a few guy friends about their thought process. Gage thinks like a woman and I have enough guy best friends to understand that they do not think the way that I do. When Gage and Cassidy finally get together, there is no growth process. They do not take time to blend as a couple. They just begin thinking about marriage and babies, etc.
Cassidy before the epilogue is 19 years old. She is not in school and she works at starbucks. There is nothing wrong with working at starbucks, but this is a girl without a dream, ambition or any plans for the future. She is finally free of her abusive family and it never occurs to her to make a plan? She doesn't save up money to go to school, start a business, or anything. I'm not even sure that she graduated from high school. There is not even a mention on whether or not Cassidy sees her future as a stay at home mother. Everyone is different. I literally wouldn't care what her plan was, as long as she had a plan. Nope, she gets away from her abusive life, focuses on guys and that's it.
This is a story without any depth. It's almost offensive that McAdams thinks that because she wrote a victim of abuse, she added some dimension. No. Victims of abuse still have dreams, they have hopes, and they want more from their lives. Sometimes they are damaged and never recover, but Cassidy doesn't have the issue of drugs, alcohol or any of the other vices people use to cope. McAdams wrote a character that absolutely could have built a life for herself, but instead the author chose to write a woman who cannot cope without a man.
A love story should have romance and two people who cannot live without each other. Still, a healthy love has two independent people who have lives outside of each other.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
This is one messed up story.
By Sarah
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to HarperCollins Publishers, and edelweiss.)
17-year-old Cassidy has had a difficult upbringing. Since her dad died when she was six, she's suffered constant physical abuse at the hands of her mother and step-father.
Her best friend Tyler who lives only 2 doors away has been there for her through it all, always there to clean up her cuts and bruises, and to help her hide her bruises from the authorities.
Now, Tyler is off to college, and he's taking Cassidy with him. Lodging with his cousin Gage, Tyler tries to make his relationship with Cassidy more than it is, but she doesn't feel that way about him, she is in love with Gage. Gage feels the same way about Cassie, but Tyler will do anything to keep Cassie `his'.
Can Cassie ever have a relationship with anyone else with Tyler around? What will Tyler do when he finds out that Gage returns Cassie's feelings? And how will this messed-up trio work out?
Where to start with this book? This book was just messed up. I mean seriously - messed up. This is one of those books that you want to read with your hands over your eyes. It's like a bad horror movie, you want to look away, but at the same time you know you can't.
Firstly, Tyler is just an icky son-of-a-b*tch. He lies, all the time, to Cassidy, to Gage, and probably even to himself. He constantly sticks his ore in where it's not needed, and he even tries to force Cassie to have sex with him, and still she loves him and sees him as her best friend.
The things he comes out with are just disgusting, and time and time again I wanted to just kick him where it hurts, and tell him off for being so awful. He constantly kept telling Gage that Cassie was `his girl', he told Gage that he was `off to bang his girl', when Cassie had never had sex with him and wasn't about to start, and the lies didn't stop there. He constantly tried to mess things up between Cassie and Gage `cause he wanted her for himself, if Gage said that he loved her, Tyler told her that Gage really thought that she was a nuisance and only saw her as a sister. When things were working out between Cassie and Gage, Tyler would tell Gage that Cassie had just given him oral sex.
He even had the nerve to bring another girl home, tell her that Cassie was his sister, and then tell Cassie that he'd had to get some other girl in because he had needs that she wasn't fulfilling!
Cassie needed to stand up for herself a little more, and stop relying on everything that Tyler said. If she had just told the truth, instead of hiding, or taking Tyler's word for things, things might have been easier for her. I found her easy acceptance of everything that Tyler said to be very naïve of her, and I hated how she let Tyler walk all over her, just because she felt he was the only thing she had left.
Gage, could also have benefitted from a little more truth. Although he felt like he was doing the right thing a lot of the time, a little more truth, and speaking to Cassidy herself rather than Tyler, would have made things a lot easier.
Now, on to the relationships. This book had a serious case of what I've heard described as `insta-love'. This in itself doesn't usually bother me that much, but in this book it sort-a did. Instantly as soon as Cassidy and Gage lay eyes on each other, there is instant attraction between the two of them - fair enough, nothing wrong with a bit of lust, however by 14% of the way in, Cassidy says that she loves Gage, which considering how they are living, and how much time they've spent together seemed a little quick? I found it very difficult to see where the `falling in love' had taken place.
Relationship-wise, this book could probably have ended at the 50% mark, as the main points had kind-a happened. The rest of the book was more misunderstandings and communication problems than anything.
Storyline wise- this book was clearly split into parts for me. The first part was very YA love story, at around the 50% mark we go into new-adult territory, and there is quite a bit of loving going on, and then as we get towards the end of the book, we go into Mills and Boon territory. Seriously. This book was pretty weird like that. I would almost go so far as to say that the beginning and end really don't match up all that well at all.
As for the physical abuse storyline, Cassie had supposedly been being beaten on a daily basis for over 11 years. She had been hit with hands, bottles, golf clubs - basically anything that was to hand. How had nobody noticed this in 11 years? How had they not killed her if they were beating her that much? Did nobody notice when her step-father sliced her up with broken glass?
I honestly don't know the answers to these questions, but from what I remember, Tyler's father was a doctor, and he used to stitch her cuts. While doctors have a patient confidentiality thing keeping them quiet, if a doctor knows that a patient is in that much physical danger, he has a duty to report the problem. I really don't see how this could possibly have gone on for that long, without some action being taken, if it was really that bad.
Overall; this was a really messed up story. The beginning and the end didn't mesh well, Tyler was just infuriating, and at times I really wanted to hide behind my hands whilst reading. I really just don't know what else to think about this book other than that - it was messed up.
6 out of 10.
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