NEVER TEAR US APART (Never Tear Us Apart #1) by Monica Murphy-Review and Giveaway

NEVER TEAR US APART
Never Tear Us Apart #1
by Monica Murphy
Genre: new adult,contemporary, dark romance
Release Date: January 5, 2016

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 5, 2016

Crazy how eight years can disappear in an instant. One look at Katie Watts, and I’m a fifteen-year-old again—the one who risked everything to save a terrified girl from her twisted kidnapper. She’s grown-up now—beautiful, quiet, composed—and telling her story to the world. A story that involves me in more ways than you can imagine. She used to call me her guardian angel. Sure, I risked my life, but she was worth dying for.

I need to make contact with her. Just to ensure that she’s safe.

Somehow we reconnect. We become friends . . . but I want more. I want to make her mine. And she wants me too. Does she know who I am? Has she figured me out? Not yet. But she will. In the meantime, I need to make sure that whatever hold that animal had on her is gone.

So, yeah, I’m stealing these moments with her. Savoring them. Knowing, dreading, that she’ll soon find out who I really am. And everything will fall apart. All because of that twisted, perverted monster sitting on death row. Her kidnapper. A convicted serial killer.

My father.

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REVIEW: NEVER TEAR US APART is the first installment in Monica Murphy’s contemporary, new adult NEVER TEAR US APART dark, romance duology focusing on twenty year old Katie Watts, and twenty three year old Ethan-a graphic designer who knows more about Katie’s past than she could possible realize.

NOTE: Some of the story line content may be sensitive to some readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Katie and Ethan), as well as past and present day timelines, NEVER TEAR US APART follows Katie Watts-a broken and shattered young woman whose twelve year old and present day self are both a victim and a survivor of a serial kidnapper, rapist and murderer. Katie’s guardian angel, a young man she knows as Will, is the only person who can understand what it was she experienced and felt, but Will disappeared from Katie’s life years before, and in the ensuing years Katie has never been able to let go of the past. Enter Ethan-a graphic designer Katie will open her heart to; reveal the truth about herself, and willing to take the next step in her life –but a man who will betray our heroine when his real identity is finally revealed.

NEVER TEAR US APART is a dark story line that skirts around some of the graphic details about what happened to our heroine Katie Watts. The reader is pulled into the mindset of a young woman who constantly reflects on the events of the past-events that she is reminded about when a reporter wants intimate details about what happened years before. The reporter’s timing is circumspect as Katie opens up about the past, and takes the first step in her new journey of recovery only to be broadsided by betrayal and heartbreak, once again.

Monica Murphy writes a tragic, suspense filled, and ruinous tale about one woman’s horrific ordeal at the hands of a serial rapist; an ordeal that comes full circle when the past is opened up like a ‘Pandora’s box’, where secrets are revealed, the truth is manipulated, and an unlikely hero falls at the feet of the woman he loves. The premise is consuming; the characters are somewhat ill-fated, desperate and intense; the romance is a slow build to betrayal and heartbreak. NEVER TEAR US APART ends on a cliff hanger-this is part one of a duology focusing on two people whose lives were destroyed by a mutual evil.

My one concern is the missing eight years-the lack of information and the details about what happened in the ensuing time following Katie’s rescue and subsequent attempt at recovery. Perhaps more will be revealed in book two.

Copy supplied by the publisher through Netgalley

Reviewed by Sandy

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