Saturday 10 February 2018

REVIEW TOUR: The Cracks Duet by LH Cosway


We're celebrating the release of the CRACKS DUET 
by L.H. Cosway! 

 

Title: A Crack In Everything and How The Light Gets In (Cracks Duet)
Age Group: Adult
Release Date: January 30 & February 6, 2018
A Crack In Everything  Goodreads
How The Light Gets In Goodreads

A Crack In Everything
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How The Light Gets In

Book Description:


A Crack in Everything


Life used to be simple.

I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O’Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall and told me to stay quiet.

It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me.

For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you need just a tiny drop of something unsavoury to create every great scent.

Pretty deep for a pair of teenagers living in a block of council flats in inner city Dublin, right Probably. But we weren’t typical. We both had our obsessions. Mine was growing things, Dylan’s was scent. He taught me how to use my nose, and I introduced him to the magic of flowers.

I had no idea that one day he’d build an empire from what we started together. But before that, there was love and happiness, tragedy and epic heartbreak…

My name is Evelyn Flynn and I’m going to tell you about the crack in everything.

A Crack in Everything is Book #1 in L.H. Cosway’s Cracks duet.


Caroline's Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐


“You’re sunshine, Evelyn, and there’s nothing but clouds around here."

Evelyn was abandoned by her mother and now lives with her devoted aunt. Her grandmother is in a nursing home, and there’s no way Evelyn would ever move away from her rough district, as long as her grandmother is alive. She’s been happy being something of a misfit with her gay best friend, Sam. They basically fly under the school popularity radar, and she’s content avoiding scrutiny. She loves her allotment on the roof of her apartment building, growing her beautiful flowers. She takes pleasure in the little things.

“I can only see my dreams clearly when I look through you first.”

When the gorgeous Dylan O’Dea bursts into her life, his presence changes everything. Her life is more vibrant, although he brings complications, as well as happiness into her orbit. He has big ambitions to rise above his current circumstances, and dreams of a life away from Dublin.

This was a heartrending study about first love, friendship, family, loyalty and loss. Evelyn is full of light in spite of her upbringing. I loved how much she and her aunt adored and respected each other. When Dylan becomes part of her life, I loved how much he cared about her and how he saw her as a bright light – someone so full of sunshine. 

Dylan was a great character. He was intense, thoughtful, and passionate. I loved how much he revered Evelyn and what she meant to him. The ending of the book absolutely broke my heart and is something of a cliffhanger but, fear not, the second part is coming almost immediately! 

”This isn’t the end for us, I promise. This is just that in-between. I’ll find you in the after.”

This story was about accepting your lot in life, finding beauty amongst the ugliness, and dreaming of a life beyond what you know.




How the Light Gets in


He came back to me 16 minutes and 59 seconds into Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7.

We parted amid tragedy, so it seemed poetic. Dylan O’Dea, my childhood sweetheart, had once
meant everything to me. Now we were strangers, and honestly, after eleven years I never thought
I’d see him again.

I lived in the world of the average, of getting paid by the hour and budgeting to make ends meet. But
Dylan, he lived in the world of wealth and success. He’d achieved the great things I always suspected
he would. The dissatisfaction he’d felt as a teenager had obviously been an excellent motivator.

He started a business from scratch, pioneered a brand, and created perfumes adored by women
across the globe. I was just one of the people who’d been there before. Now he was living his best
life in the after.

And me, well, I’d been in a dark place for a while. Slowly but surely, I was letting the light back in, but there was something missing. I was an unfinished sentence with an ellipsis at the end. And maybe, if I was brave enough to take the chance, Dylan could be my happy ending.

How the Light Gets In is Book #2 and the concluding installment in L.H. Cosway’s Cracks duet.


Caroline's Review 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


“He made me weak. He made me want. Every part of me fizzled with need to feel his touch, to touch him in return.”

Evelyn hasn’t seen Dylan for eight years. He’s now very much a man, and a successful one, at that. She has been through a lot since she last saw him, and is not in a particularly good emotional place. However, seeing him again brings back all her old feelings for him.

“If it weren’t for your influence, I might never have become what I am today.”

Dylan has never forgotten Evelyn. She’s in everything he does. Everything he has achieved. His muse. His first love. His only love. He needs her to give them another chance. However, she’s no longer the optimistic, sunny girl he remembers, but he’s determined to help her find her passion and her light, again.

“You’re been mine since the beginning of time, Ev. It’s never too soon.”

This concluding instalment to the Cracks Duet was a beautiful second-chance romance. It was brimming with hope, and I loved the spark of promise for a new beginning.

Evelyn has suffered much and has become disenchanted with life. She’s slowly trying to move on but she has lost her joie de vivre. Dylan’s reappearance in her life is a jolt, but she’s not quite ready to explore their lost relationship, again. I loved his patience and all the things he did to let her know how precious she was to him. I loved the poetry in the author’s words to describe how the characters saw each other, and how they felt about each other.

“It’s always been you. It only ever will be.”

This story was about second chances, finding a renewed passion for life, fulfilling lost dreams, and an abiding love that transcends adversity and the passage of time.
About the author:


L.H. Cosway lives in Dublin, Ireland. Her inspiration to write comes from music. Her favourite things in life include writing stories, vintage clothing, dark cabaret music, food, musical comedy, and of course, books. She thinks that imperfect people are the most interesting kind. They tell the best stories. L.H. is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency.

Social Media Links:FB: www.facebook.com/LHCosway
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