Title :              The Night He Saved me 

Author :           Sarah Stevens

Series :            n/a

Release date :   July 23th 2016

Rating :           3,5 Stars

 

 

Blurb :

 

Katarina

 

One night. One party. One girl forever changed.I was supposed to stay on the path I had chosen. Go to college and make something of myself. But doing it all alone wasn’t easy, and it seemed everyone was against me.Except James. He was there to catch me when my world crumbled—cradling my emotions and wrapping me in his secure embrace. James was there when the entire world disappeared.

 

James

 

One glance. One undeniable connection. One life forever changed.Keeping myself hidden from a legacy I wanted no part of, I lived a content life. Until her. She swept in, making me forget all the bad that haunted me. Now, the past I tried to run from has caught up, and I have more to lose than ever. She’s the target, and I’m the shield.She thinks I saved her, but she’s the one who rescued me.Two worlds. Two hearts. And a lifetime of trials.

 

Review : Reviewing a book that you received as an ARC is a serious job. Being the first on Goodreads to do that for/to a book is even more serious – because you mark the book first and who ever will follow will see this and will maybe make up his mind because of whatever you wrote.

 

So let me start at the beginning … “The Night He Saved me” is the Debut novel from Sarah Stevens and it is a good debut.

 

Her writing is solid and the plot as well as the character development are good.

 

I choose the book because I like secrets and tortured characters and this book sounded like it might have some of that.

 

If you follow my reviews you know that I read a lot of different genres so I dare saying that I am able to judge a little on what other people might think.

 

Therefore, I would like to advice to the author to place a marking in the Blurb. Because judging from its cover and the Blurb you would never expect the amount of drugs and alcohol, as well as sex including especially a description of a sex related event.

 

(I use this description to avoid spoilers but I am sure the author will know what I mean – otherwise PM me) I am SURE that will be a trigger to certain readers. The cover lets you expect a YA romance novel but this is darker and it should be marked to avoid that it is given negative ratings because people expected something different.

 

The story starts of a little slow introducing us to “Katarina” and her life – which seems a little off at first because the reader is missing on the background of her life.

 

But as the story develops this missing background fades and the focus is set on other “things” – that is when James is slowly inserting himself into her life.

 

And suddenly the story takes off – acutally it takes of so fast that I sometimes lost the line to follow. The author had many great ideas for the plotline and managed to squeeze them all in – it worked – but may a little less would have been better at certain points.

 

There were twists and turns and well yeah I really did not see THAT coming about James

 

I am rating this book with 3,5 stars. (but anyway I have to give it 4 stars as there are no “half” stars in the ratings anywhere) which is not bad for a debut novel.

 

0,5 stars it lost because I was really surprised judging be the blurb how the story developed and I am an open reader – I mean I just finished a Dark Romance Review so I know about triggers and I know how people will react to this plot.

 

(Gosh – not even the marking in the Blurb might save you sometimes as an author because I just saw a review on a novel marked as “BDSM novel” where a reader wrote “this book contains to much sex” and gave a poor rating)

 

And well the 5th star – no author should be too disappointed if he is not reaching it with me because – I need either a “cry like a river” (rare) or “laughing my ass off” (even rarer) event in the book for it to reach that level.

 

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