TITLE: Unseen Messages
AUTHOR: Pepper Winters
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
DATE OF RELEASE: 31st March 2016
"Instincts are what keep us safe from fate. Ignoring them can change your life forever."
Fame and fortune arrived overnight and after months on the road with her singing tour, all Estelle craves is peace. Tired and ready for paradise, she travels to Fiji to recuperate.
Stubborn and surly, Galloway is avoided by most - which is exactly the way he likes it. However, he's done spending his life in regret and hopes to find redemption in the tropical wilderness.
Together, they board the flight that changes their fate forever. Crash landing on a deserted island, they not only have to figure out how to survive with no skills and daily dangers - learning how to fish, find water, and build shelter - but also inherit two children who look to them to keep them alive.
However, staying alive might be the least of Galloway and Estelle's problems. As days creep to months and rescue doesn't find them, their desire for each other ignites.
They started as strangers.
They grew to be friends.
They fought the desire to be lovers.
Lust can be the most beautiful thing. Love the most rewarding. But not on an island where life hangs by a thread and giving into temptation can kill you.
Can they survive being forgotten or will love be their ultimate undoing?
From New York Times Bestseller Pepper Winters comes a timeless love story answering the question of what happens when everything is stripped away.
I don't think I can actually portray just how much this book has affected me. Seriously, this has to be the best book I have read in a very long time. I don't mean that to sound flippant, because it is anything but.
As many people will know, I have loved Pepper Winters' writing for a long time. Ever since I read Tears of Tess, I was hooked on everything she wrote. I totally fangirled when I met her in Edinburgh in 2014. However, if I was to meet her today, I can't even imagine how I could begin to tell her just how much this book took over my life. I felt like I was living and breathing the characters. Let me tell you this book held me captive from the word 'Prologue'.
I thought writing this review would be easy, because I loved the book so much, but let me tell you, I think this will go down as the hardest one I have ever written. Why? Because I want to gush and tell you all about it. I want to tell you how certain bits made me feel. But I can't, because in doing so I would give so much away.
So this is what I am going to do. I am going to tell you why this qualifies for my Top Read of 2016. I am going to tell you how I felt at various points of the storyline. Hopefully, you will then have an understanding why this book may just be the best book I have read. EVER!
So why does this qualify for my Top Read of 2016, when we are only in March? Well that is easy. From the outset, and by the outset I mean when I first read the blurb, I knew this was not going to be the usual book I have come to love and expect from (in my humble opinion) one of the best writers of her genre. This was way of the track from what Pepper has ever written. She told us not to expect Dark and I couldn't wait to see one of my favourite authors write something else, entirely. So she literally had me panting right of the bat. But then I worried, was I expecting too much, but my heart said 'No'. Then I got my hands on the book and straight away I was done for. Hook, line and sinker. I may as well have had a sign above me saying 'Do Not Disturb', because I was watching the book play out in my head like an Oscar Winning Movie. I can't remember the last time I felt this absorbed in a book, that it felt like I was there, hiding in the background, watching it all unfold before my very own eyes. So, for that reason and a thousand others, this is why it qualifies as my Top Read for 2016.
Due to feeling like I was a 'fly on the wall', so to speak, to the events as they unfolded throughout the storyline, I felt a massive range of emotions. From feeling sick when someone was in pain, to feeling relief when things went right, to feeling utter devastation when things went horribly wrong. Those are just some of the range of emotions this book brought out in me. I wept, I smiled, I laughed, I sobbed and I broke my heart then wept some more. Some were happy tears, some were sad and some were just borne from the sheer relief of how things evolved. I am currently sitting here feeling like I have lost a friend, because I have finished the book. I want to start all over again, but I really don't think my emotional state could handle it just now. So for the foreseeable future, I will be bookless, mourning the passing of one of the best books I have read to date.
My Rating
Pepper
Winters is a NYT and USA Today International Bestseller. She wears
many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She
loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more
tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to
break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex... her books have sex.
She
loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with
her love affair with her book boyfriends. She's also honoured to wear
the IndieReader Badge for being a Top 10 Indie Bestsellers, best BDSM
series voted by the SmutClub, and recently signed a two book deal
with Grand Central. Her books are currently being translated into
numerous languages and will be in bookstores in the near future.
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