Monday, November 25, 2013

A. Meredith Walters: Find You in the Dark, Light in the Shadows, and Cloud Walking

A. Meredith Walters

Series: Find You in the Dark

Book One: Find You in the Dark

Synopsis:


Maggie Young had the market on normal. Normal friends, normal parents, normal grades...normal life. 
Until him.
Clayton Reed was running from his past and an army of personal demons that threatened to take him down. He never thought he had a chance at happiness.
Until her.
Maggie thought their love could overcome anything. Clay thought she was all he needed to fix his messy life. 
That together, they could face the world.
But the darkness is always waiting. 
Sometimes the greatest obstacle to true love is within yourself.
October 10, 2012 

DISCLAIMER: Content contains intense/sexual situations and crude language. Intended for Mature YA/Adult audiences.
Review:
I loved this book. 
Maggie is the typical high school student. The one that most people strive to be. She meets a boy that is the epitome of "bad boy". Keeps to himself and you can tell he holds a secret, but you just don't know what it is. Very emotional and real. I just couldn't put the book down. 
Maggie wants to help Clayton; Clayton thinks he can handle things on his own. Things spiral out of control and not in a good way. This story takes you on a journey that many kids in the era are probably facing and probably trying to solve the same way as Clayton. Again a very emotional and enlightening novel on something many people try not to acknowledge. Would recommend to fellow readers.




Book Two: Light in the Shadows

Synopsis:



How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?
Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to.
Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie. Even after ripping their lives apart and leaving her behind to get the help he so desperately needed. He is healing...slowly. But his heart still belongs to the girl who tried to save him.
When a sudden tragedy brings Maggie and Clay face to face again, nothing is the same. Yet some things never change. Can the darkness that threatened to consume them be transformed into something else and finally give them what they always wanted? And can two people who fought so hard to be together, finally find their happiness? Or will their demons and fear drive them apart for good?
The thing about love, is even when it destroys you, it has a way of mending what is broken. And in the shadows, you can still see the light.
March 24, 2013

Review:

A continuation of the series Find You in the Dark. This book continues the story of Maggie and Clayton. Clay left Maggie to get the help that he needed for his mental illness. He wanted Maggie to be able to have a normal life, but all Maggie wanted was Clay. She tried to get her life together but is forced back into Clayton's life. 
This book is written in both character's POV so you get to know how each is feeling during this time of their lives. You feel their love, pain, passion, fears, etc. 
It was a perfect ending to the tragic beginning of Maggie and Clayton's story.




Book One and a half: Cloud Walking (A Novella)

Synopsis:

While Clay and Maggie were falling apart...

Daniel and Rachel were falling in love.
Rachel Bradfield has loved Daniel Lowe for most of her life. She has had to sit quietly by while he throws his feelings away on a girl who doesn’t deserve them. Rachel knows she can be everything he needs.
Daniel has always known Rachel was special. She is one of his best friends. But what Daniel doesn’t realize is that the girl he has known forever might just be the one he really wants.
Love pulls two people together, while tearing two others apart. As Daniel and Rachel discover the beauty of first love their best friend loses her heart to the deepest darkness. Unable to hold Maggie together, Rachel and Daniel find out that love doesn’t have to hurt and that it can change your life.
January 22, 2013

Review:

This short story tells the of the tell of Maggie's two best friends Daniel and Rachel. 
Rachel has always loved Daniel but he had never reciprocated those feelings. These two come together when their best friend is being ripped apart. Daniel never thought that Rachel would be his "one and only". He didn't want to ruin a friendship that he has cherished from a very young age. 
It is told in both characters POV and is a very sweet romance novel. Tells of how two young teenagers come together. Really enjoyed learning about how these two friends came together and why. Very great story even if it is short.




Book Two and a Half: Warmth in Ice (A Novella)

Synopsis:

The final chapter in Clay and Maggie's epic love story that began with Find You in the Dark.

This novella takes place before the epilogue in Light in the Shadows.
It's Clay and Maggie's first Christmas together but will it be a season of joy or will it only bring heartache?
Clay and Maggie have gone through the dark and come out on the other side. For the first time, they are on this journey together. Fighting for something they both need and can’t live without…each other.
But a long distance relationship is hard. Particularly for two people who are still trying to build something solid on a shaky and troubled foundation. Clay is finally out of treatment and is living in an out patient halfway house. He struggles with what he wants to do and where he wants to go. Questions he worries he will never have the answers to. Maggie is trying to transition into college life and learning how to create a future with someone who is over a thousand miles away.
As the months pass and they struggle with being a part, old insecurities and fears take root and threaten a love that has come so far.
When Maggie decides to fly to Florida as a surprise for Clay on Christmas, she is unsure whether it will be the first step toward what they both desperately want or whether it could possibly be the end of it all.
But with the holidays approaching, Maggie and Clay are reminded that even when the days are coldest, you can still find the warmth and that hope and love are the greatest gifts of all.
October 26, 2013

Review:

Look forward to reading this book! Haven't gotten to it yet!!

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