Hide Me by Lexi Scott – a Review
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Description:
Sometimes it’s easier to run…
Ripped apart by guilt and grief, nineteen-year-old Whit Conrad grabs her stuff and runs from her super-conservative home and family in Pennsylvania and hauls ass for sunny California. All she wants is escape. Now she has a craptastic apartment, a job at a tattoo parlour, and even a friend-who’s-mostly-benefits. Then she meets a sexy, inked, surfer-dude who has the potential of capsizing everything…
Deo Beckett is adrift. Underemployed and over-boozing, Deo knows he should be doing something more with his life. Being something more. All it takes is a pin-up hottie with a smart mouth—and a bruised soul—to force Deo to start looking below the surface. To wonder if there’s more to life than being a beach bum. Now he’s falling for Whit…and hard.
But Whit ran from home for a reason, and she’ll go to any lengths to keep Deo from learning the truth…
Review:
Hide Me by Lexi Scott is book one in the Silver Strand Series. Whit Conrad is a small town Pennsylvania girl that has recently moved to California. She brings with her a haunted past and a troubled soul. She came to California to be closer to her brother, Wakefield. To the brother she so tragically lost. And with her she brought a box of pictures – and she goes to the places that her brother has taken pictures of just to be closer to him. She needs to be as near to the memory of him as possible. Hence, she gets a job at the tattoo shop where her brother got his first tattoo. Bullheaded and stubborn – she wants to do things on her own, her own place, college, anything and everything without the help of anyone else. What she wasn’t bargaining for was Deo Beckett. He came into her life when she needed him most; unfortunately she wasn’t ready to see that. Deo is your typical California aimless, slacker surfer. He is content living out his days in his grandfather’s house, spending the days surfing and the nights partying and having a good time. Deo isn’t anything that she is looking for – despite him being good looking, charming and funny. That is until he comes into the tattoo shop looking for a new tattoo. He wasn’t exactly bargaining for what he found in the tattoo shop either. Bull-headed and stubborn – Whit is resilient in her thought processes. No one needs to know about Wakefield, in fact the less she speaks of him the better. But when her relationship with Deo starts to get even the slightest bit serious – and he wants to know more and more about her and her past. She not only shuts down, she bails. And falling back into his old ways – Deo is content that when things start to get tough – its time for him to bail too. Little did they know that the things there were fighting the most to stay away from is the exact thing that both of them need.
Whit Conrad is pig-headed and stubborn. She doesn’t want to open up and let anyone in. It hurts to much when she does that. The tragedy of her brother’s life is just too much for her to deal with. And she needs to deal with it in the worst way. The more that you find out about Whit between the pages the more I started to relate with her. And her pain is palpable. You want nothing more that to make things right for her and to show her stubbornness the way.
Deo Beckett is that loveable jokester that likes to have fun and just hang out. He can do that because he has no responsibilities and nothing he is committed to. He makes you laugh and as the story progresses you can see him evolve into a wonderful young man with so much to offer. Once he began to open his heart and soul to Whit you want nothing more than for her to do the same. But this isn’t your normal fairytale romance. No, this is tragic, heart breaking and truly moving. As you watch as Whit finally finds her true self and what she truly wants and needs – you begin to feel a connection like you have been friends for a long time.
This book was moving. It makes you think about those things that you hold inside. That you don’t allow another to see or feel or know. And what exactly that can do to the other person that you are holding back from. The passion between the two main characters is wonderful and when they are good – they’re great. And when they are bad – it’s heart breaking. But will Whit finally open up to Deo and explain to him the pain and tragedy that is her life? Or will Deo get his act together and be the kind of man that Whit wants and needs. This was one of my favorite read so far of 2015. The banter back and forth between Whit and Deo is hilarious and jovial. And the passion – on fire!
Reviewed by Erin
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