Book Review: Touching Melody

Touching Melody (Forever First #1)

by RaShelle Workman

Published: May 14th 2013

Polished Pen Press

e-arc: Netgallery

(Goodreads synopsis) Sometimes life isn't pretty, but you have to close your eyes and let go...

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Maddie Martin's first weekend at college is nothing like she's used to. It's wild, like the wilderness on which the University of Bellam Springs sits. Roped into going to a fraternity party, she literally runs into Kyle Hadley. The boy she's loved since she was nine. The boy she promised all of her firsts to. But that was before his father killed her parents.

Determined to stay away from him, she throws herself into her music. Practicing piano eases her heavy heart, calms the sadness, and pushes away images of Kyle's face.

Until it doesn't.

Her music professor asks her to play a duet for their annual Winter Gala. Doing so means she'll be assured another full ride scholarship. It's an opportunity she can't pass up.

But Kyle is the other half of the duet. And that means hours and hours of practicing.

Weeks of seclusion - just the two of them. And it's more than just music. It's passion like Maddie never believed was possible.

The inevitable happens. She falls in love with him all over again.

But, will loving him be enough to erase all the hate in her heart for his father? Can she look at him, and not see the evil in his family tree?

And maybe it's all a set up. Maybe Kyle is only pretending to care so he can finish what his father started, and kill her too.

This book wasn't anything that I suspected. Maddie walked in on seeing her mom and dad dead. She also saw their killers before she went into the house. The man she saw holding the gun was her best friend Kyle's dad. She had spent years taking care of him after his dad beat him. She loved him even after she had to leave him and cut him out of her life. Maddie is completely innocent because her aunt and uncle kept her sheltered. 

Maddie goes back to her hometown for college. She has no clue if she will see Kyle again and is confused on how she feels about it. Her room made is this crazy chick who loves to party, drug and sex it up. You would think that these girls wouldn't get along because they are such opposites but they find their common ground: pain. The first night that the girls get to school they go to a party. Maddie and Kyle of course collide into each other which begins their epic tale. 

Maddie has spent 7 years dwelling and lost in the pain of loosing her parents. Being confronted with an all consuming love for Kyle has her all twisted up. Kyle is overcome with love for the girl he fell in love with all those years ago. He never gave up on her and refuses to loose her again but she keeps slipping through the cracks. There are so many secrets that keep haunting them and ruining their happily ever after.

This book is written in both Maddie's POV and Kyle's (you guys know how much I love that). I hate to cry and when a book can make me cry that means its majorly good. I felt all the emotions throughout this book. When they we good, my heart soared. When they were swallowed in pain, your heart aches right along with them. This story really was heart-wrenching. When you think there is no way it can get any worse, it does. I wanted Maddie and Kyle is have the happy ending. It drove me crazy that something always got in the way. By the end I was so happy (hint hint).

This was not an easy read. Not as in literary difficulty but in the aspect that there was so many horrible things that happened. I loved it and I really think everyone should read it. Right now too soon?