
By: Aly Martinez
Series: On the Ropes #3
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
The BookWhisperer's Rating:
I
was born a fighter. Abandoned by my parents, I spent my life forging my own
path—one guided by my fists and paved with pain.
Untouchable
in the ring, I destroyed everyone who faced me, but that’s where my victories
ended. Outside the ropes, I repeatedly failed the few people who loved me.
Including my best friend, Liv James—the one person I’d die to protect.
Even
though I didn’t deserve her, Liv never stopped believing in me. Never
gave up.
Never let go. After all, she understood what I’d lost, because she’d lost it
too.
Liv
was everything to me, but she was never truly mine.
That
was going to change.
I
lost my first love, but I refused to lose my soulmate.
Now,
I’m on the ropes during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting
to be the man she deserves.
Fighting
the solitude of our pasts.
Fighting for her.
This is my first book by Aly Martinez
and sometimes it is a little nerve-wracking to start reading a book from an
author you haven’t read anything from before.
You could love their style or you could end up hating it
completely. But I gave this book a shot
(and the book cover helped as well) and found out that I am a big fan of Aly
Martinez and the Page brothers! Although I do have a confession, I haven’t read
the first to books in this series. But
after finishing Fighting Solitude, I bought them!
Quarry, being the protector, stumbled
upon Liv getting bullied by two boys and did not stand for it - from that
moment, instant best friends. Every
spare second was spent together; Liv rooting for and watching Quarry work
towards his dream of being a boxer and Quarry protecting Liv from the silence
and darkness that haunts her life. They
are two peas in a pod until an incident takes place and separates them. During this time, both characters grow up and
move on – leaving each other behind.
However, finding out that Quarry has
gone “deaf” brings Liv back into his life and the life of Mia, Quarry’s
girlfriend. Now instead of two peas,
there are three. But happiness doesn’t
last for long. *Spoiler time* I think most know that Quarry and Mia do not last
because Quarry and Liv have been written in the stars but I won’t give anything
else away. Mia’s departure from Liv and
Quarry’s life rocks their foundation and brings them even closer together and
this starts to kindle a quiet love between the two that both want but find it
hard to fight for. All the complications
that they encountered made me root for them even harder because they both
deserved happiness and being with each other gave them that happiness.
I found the story of Quarry and Liv
to be quite wonderful and beautifully written.
I felt both the tug and pull each character had on each other and
thought the resistance that Martinez added made them feel real. To suffer like they both had and then to just
go with the flow is not how real people respond – Liv and Q wanted each other (every single day) but would pull back
their feelings in order to continue to have the perfect friendship and respect
for Mia. It was almost as if their
feelings for each other were forbidden until they themselves accepted what
everyone else knew, that they have always been a couple.
Like I said, I bought the first two
books in the series because I loved Fighting Solitude so much and I plan to
devour them as soon as possible because I know that they are nothing but
brilliant.
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