Hidden Scars

Amanda K. Byrne

Hidden Scars, #1

Release date: 22th September 2015

4 Stars

Sometimes the past won’t stay where it belongs. Sara’s number one rule of dating: closed off, secretive men need not apply. Years of therapy helped her move past the damage done by her emotionally abusive boyfriend, and she’s ready to date again. Someone funny, laid back, and easy to talk to. All things her coworker Taylor isn’t.Taylor’s quiet. Too quiet. He operates in permanent stealth mode, and he hides his secrets as well as Sara does. She doesn’t want to be attracted to him, but after a night spent in a hotel room together, trapped by a blizzard, she can’t deny there’s a fire-hot connection between them, waiting to ignite. Their working relationship inches closer and closer to friendship, until one day she gathers her courage and kisses him.It’s the match Taylor was waiting for.What starts as a sweet, fumbling friendship quickly becomes a passionate and intense affair. Just when Sara’s starting to feel safe in Taylor’s arms, his secrets come out, and she wonders if she’ll ever be able to stop looking over her shoulder.

Hidden Scars (Hidden Scars #1) by Amanda K. Byrne is a nice change from the usual romance novels I read lately. The characters are really well developed and show enough depth for me as a reader to relate to them, (which is a very important fact for me personally).

For me reading a good book means that I want to feel what the protagonists feel. Sara’s character was I nice enough female lead but it was Taylor that intrigued me the most. His quiet stealthy way is so different from anything I cam across that he was really surprising.

Which brings me also to my only problem with this storyline. The beginning of the novel – there in that hotel – was setting the mood. The reader was promised a certain deep dark edge to Taylor. And the end also was true to that promise but along the journey I was missing out a little on that promise.

In some scene Taylor could have been mistaken for any other generic guy, when I felt so sure in the beginning that there had to be much more too him. But that is only my absolute personal issue – !!!

The story itself is really good and I can only recommend it to you. If you think that blurb might appeal to you – you will not be disappointed by the story. I hope that will soon be a release of the next book as I can definitively see a future for this storyline as a series.

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