Author: Charity Ferrell
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: self - published
Genre: romance
Language: english
Rate: 4/5 ⭐️ | 4/10 🌶️
T.W.: abuse, violence
The plot:
I don't own you. I own your heart. So good luck trying to give it to someone else because it knows who it belongs to.
The first time I met Weston, he was my psychologist. I never planned to see it again. We lived in two different worlds.
He was responsible, I was reckless. He's a good guy, I'm out of control. He was the harmony on a hot day on the beach, I was the hurricane that erupted through.
But one night I called him to save me.
By chance, Weston and Elise met again at a bar. They had met years earlier in a facility where Elise was hospitalized. When they meet again Weston gives her his business card, just in case, a card she was sure she would never use. But one night, after arguing with her boyfriend, Elise calls him to pick her up. Weston decides to help her, but on one condition: have at least three sessions with him to see how she's doing, one of which they'll talk about why she found her covered in bruises. Over time, the two become familiar and begin to get to know each other, until she finds herself living with him.
Elise's character is both insecure and strong, shaped by the experiences and abuses suffered, emotionally and physically, by her father. A person who no longer trusts anyone and who's also betrayed by her best friend, who tries to convince her to get her back together with Oliver (her ex who had beaten her). The only one who manages to scratch that wall of mistrust is Weston, with her protective attitude and always putting her first.
Charity Ferrell was able to describe Elise's situation perfectly, without exaggerating it too much or trivializing it. Throughout the book, she highlighted Elise's growth, which occurred when she felt listened to by someone, thus managing to open up and recount past traumas.
A meeting that happened by pure chance and with a person who initially she didn't like, helped her get rid of all fears, but above all of her father, the main cause of the various hospitalizations, of the sense of distrust towards anyone and of the reputation that she carried with her like a burden.
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