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Inside Out by Lia Riley
Off The Map #3
When Talia first moved from California to Australia to study abroad, she never dreamed she'd find the love of her life. Bran understands her like no one ever has before. And despite the numerous challenges they've faced, they've always managed to figure out how to stay together. But this time they'll face their toughest hurdle yet. Is their love strong enough to keep them together?
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My Review
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| 5 Simply Beautiful Stars |
Inside Out is
book #3 in the Off The Map series; I’ve read and loved the first two books in
the series. So as you can imagine I was like a kid at Christmas when I was
gifted a copy of Inside Out in exchange for an honest review.
In case you want
a recap here are my reviews for the Book
#1 Upside Down and book
#2 Sideswiped.
After the end of Sideswiped I was genuinely unsure
how the story would continue, would they be together? Would it be a bitter
battle only to have them reunite right at the last minute???
What I got with the third book was not at all
what I expected and I’m so very glad that sometimes a story continues in way
that you didn’t anticipate.
This series has always been a somewhat unconventional
romance, what Talia and Bran feel for each other is not your typical love at
first sight love story. Instead what we as the readers encounter with this
couple is a real all consuming passion for another person.
This story reminds us that to be truly in love
with someone, you have to love everything about them faults and all.
Inside Out is a sneaky little grower of a story,
it creeps into your soul and warms your heart quite literally from the Inside
Out (how apt lol). I didn’t expect to feel this way about this book, In fact id
go as far as to say I was completely unprepared for how moving and soul searching
this was.
The way Talia and Bran feel about each other is
what we should all aspire to, yes they have a shit load of issues and baggage
but in this book I didn’t see the problems, I simply didn’t care!!
At the start of this book Talia’s OCD and blatantly
obvious mental health issues stand front and centre. Yet my main recollection
of this harrowing insight into spiralling depression and inertia is how Bran
quietly stands by her as a tower of strength and reminder that his love and
devotion is strong enough for both of them.
This book is quietly powerful and at the end of
it I’m moved, I’m close to tears and I’m slightly jealous.
Inside Out doesn’t have your typical happily
ever after, there’s no definite sign that everything’s going to be ok. But the strength
of hope that pours out of the last chapter has managed to convince me that as cliché
as it sounds Love Conquers All.
Simply put this is a beautiful story 5 stars!!!
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About Lia
Lia Riley writes offbeat New Adult Romance. After studying at the University of Montana-Missoula, she scoured the world armed only with a backpack, overconfidence and a terrible sense of direction. She counts shooting vodka with a Ukranian mechanic in Antarctica, sipping yerba mate with gauchos in Chile and swilling XXXX with stationhands in Outback Australia among her accomplishments. When not torturing heroes (because c'mon, who doesn't love a good tortured hero?), Lia herds unruly chickens, camps, beach combs, daydreams about as-of-yet unwritten books, wades through a mile-high TBR pile and schemes yet another trip. She and her family live in Northern California.
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