Tectonic (Double Blind Study #3) by Heidi Hutchinson
Synopsis
No matter how solid something seems, if enough pressure is
applied, hearts and lives will shift.
Shane Brookings, passionate surfer and accomplished athlete, was not a rock star, as much as he tried to represent himself as one throughout most of his adulthood. Mostly, Shane had always been kind of a jackass. A talented jackass, but still. So it really came as no surprise to him that the only two women he had seen a future with, chose actual rock stars to hitch themselves to.
Feeling cold and hollow, he returned to California to focus on growing his brand. Determined to now stay serious about his life choices, he never anticipated Greta O'Neil's blatant shove into his life.
Greta O'Neil, avid artist, surfer chick, and baby sister to a rock star, had a life that was anything but boring. Having a knack for pulling sad men out of their funk, she sets her talents on Shane Brookings. She has no intention of breaking her rules, which include getting too close, letting him in, and accidentally falling for the guy.
But Shane is not like her other projects. Not only is he built like a Greek god, he's hardworking, passionate, clever and heroic. (Not that he believes any of those things about himself.) The rules she has so firmly set down to protect herself, are more than shaken up with Shane's every push into her life.
Even as they both compromise to make room in their hearts for the other, outside forces put pressure on their burgeoning relationship. Shane's dream is put into jeopardy, ex-lovers surface at the worst moments, and their own faults threaten to violently tear them apart.
Review
This was a great read. Five Stars!! Author Heidi R
Hutchinson once again brings us a beautiful, genuine love story with a touch of drama
and such amazing characters that you just absolutely can't help but fall in
love with.
I had
already fallen in love with Shane in Book 2 because he matured and changed so
much since Book 1, where I very much disliked him, but WOW…… I’m lovin him even
more.
Shane is
heartbroken. He let the woman he fell in love with go because he knew it was the
right thing to do. He tries to hide his pain and his plan is to throw himself
into work. He sure wasn’t expecting this sassy chic determined to ‘fix’ him to get
under his skin.
Greta sets
her sights on Shane. She sees the sadness in him and wants to help him move on
and bring back happiness into his life. This is what she does. This is her
talent. She’s determined to make Shane her next ‘fixer upper’. She wasn’t
expecting for him to break through the boundaries she thought were impenetrable.
I love
this series! Although you can read each one as a standalone, I highly recommend
reading them in order. In Book 1, you get introduced to each character and you
get a feel for them. You get the whole effect of how they are connected to each
other and where the characters stand throughout. We first meet Shane in Book 1,
and it wasn’t a very good impression. Book 2, he totally flipped the switch and
my heart thawed for him, falling more and more. In this story, he steals a huge
piece of my heart. He is so sweet, caring and tender.
Shane and
Greta were made for each other. Greta was exactly what Shane needed in his
life. She was exuberant and brought so much life back into Shane when he
thought he was doomed to darkness. Their friendship develops over the course of
the story and fall more and more for each other. They take a chance on love.
I love how
Heidi writes these love stories with pure genuine emotion without the whole ‘sex
sells’ thing going on. These stories don’t need that. You fall so deeply in love
and captivated by the raw emotion of pure simple love. I love her writing; it’s
like a breath of fresh air and separates her on a whole different plateau from
the rest. I absolutely loved this story and couldn’t have been happier of how
Shane and Greta came to be. I can’t wait to read the next addition to this
series.
**ARC received in exchange for an honest review
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About the Author
Heidi Hutchinson was born in South Dakota and raised the
exact right distance away from the Black Hills. She had an overactive
imagination very early on, and wasted no time in getting most of her friends in
trouble due to her unrealistic and completely ridiculous ideas. Seeing as she
was so lazy and also afraid people would think she was bonkers, she didn't
write down any of the story lines that played out in her daydreams.
During her high school years, she took pen to paper and filled more notebooks than she is proud of with angsty, depressing, self-depreciating poetry. This led to her writing down more things: notes, ideas, character bios, plot twists that had no plot yet to twist. After years of cleaning up her own scraps of imagination with nothing solid to hold on to, she sat down and wrote the story that had been in her head the longest. Fueled by coffee and her unwavering and perfectly normal devotion to Dave Grohl, she discovered a writer living inside of her.
She still lives in the Midwest, though not as close to the Black Hills as she would prefer, with her alarmingly handsome husband and their fearless child. They eat more pizza than God intended and she listens to her music the same way she lives: loudly.
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