Aflame (Fall Away #4)
Penelope Douglas
April 5, 2015
Everyone wants to be me.
Maybe it’s the sway of my skirt or the way I flip my hair, but I don’t care. Even though their attention is the last thing I crave, I just can’t stop. I dominate the track, the speed rattles my bones, and the wind and the crowd screams my name.
I’m her. The girl driver. The queen of the race. And I’m surviving—something he thought I’d never do.
They all talk about him. Did you see Jared Trent on T.V? What did you think of his last race, Tate? When is he coming back to town, Tate?
But I refuse to care too much. Because when Jared does come home, I won’t be here.
Tatum Brandt is gone. I’m someone new.
At the end of Falling Away, the third book in Penelope’s Fall Away series, us readers were shocked to find out that Tate and Jared, the couple that started it all were no more. Jared broke things off with Tate to become a better person, but he was coming back, or so he said. Now it’s been two years since that day when Tate told him to get out of her room.
Two years is a long time to be with out the person you’ve loved since you were ten years old. Even after being bullied by Jared in high school for three years Tate always loved him. When she went abroad Junior year, she came back a stronger person, now he comes back to find what?
I was lucky enough to receive an ARC from Penelope of Aflame. To say I devoured this book would be an understatement. If I could have gotten away with no sleep, food or work I would have. Even from the first sentence I was hooked. I wanted or maybe needed to know what Jared was thinking when he left Tate behind. I needed to know what Tate was feeling in the two years they were apart.
So many questions ran through my head but the one I wanted answered almost more than any of the rest is what’s been going on with Madoc, Jax and Jared since he left? How do you leave the girl you claim to love with all you are and still keep in touch with your brothers? How does that work, given that Tate’s best friends are Fallon and KC, let’s also not forget how close she became with Madoc too.
To say your questions will be answered is definitely true. Maybe not every reader will be impressed with the way Penelope wrapped up this series, but I definitely was. Not everyone is going to be 100% satisfied but I believe the majority will be. Penelope does an amazing job with the ending of all our favorite Fall Away couples.
Penelope Douglas is a writer living in Las Vegas. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, she is the oldest of five children. Penelope attended the University of Northern Iowa, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, because her father told her to “just get the damn degree!” She then earned a Masters of Science in Education at Loyola University in New Orleans, because she HATED public administration. One night, she told the bouncer at the bar where she worked that his son was hot, and three years later she was married. To the son, not the bouncer. They have spawn, but just one. A daughter named Aydan. Penelope loves sweets, The 100, and she shops at Target almost daily.
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