Beautiful Burn
I had to double check that I was reading a Maddox brother book when I started reading this. Ellie is not the kind of girl that I pictured with a Maddox guy... but let's start at the beginning.
Ellie Edson is the typical spoiled rich girl that hates her life. She drinks, parties, trashes everything she owns and everyone she knows just to get the attention of her parents and sister. She meets Tyler Maddox at a house party she is throwing one night, pulls a "Travis Maddox" with him and sends him on his way.
but now, they are in each other's heads.
She finally pushed the limits with her parents and she's told to learn how to get on her feet by herself - Sober up, get a job, pay your way. So she heads out for a job interview and is hired on the spot as the assistant on the local newspaper since no one else has applied for it in a year. When they find out she is also good with a camera, she gets the gig of following the local firefighters around and capturing the nit and grit of what they do and who they are.
And who they are includes Tyler Maddox.
Unfortunately, Ellie is a big train wreck. She's struggling to control her addiction habits and she puts Tyler through hellfire. The question is how much they want to burn each other.
This is the least favourite of all the books. I don't understand how Tyler could put up with Ellie; (high five to anyone who can handle their struggles and come out clean, it's definitely not easy) but to do what she did to Tyler didn't sit well with me. I felt like he could've done better, but at the same time - this was real life. You cannot control who you fall in love with. Of course, when a Maddox boy falls in love, he fights tooth and nail for her so I can't hold it against the poor boy.
The writing is just as fantastic as the other books; McGuire's writing is so powerful and so emotional throughout all her books, and it doesn't stop here. For some reason, Ellie bugged me and I wanted more of Tyler's perspective rather than hers.
This is the final of the brother's stories; everything comes together in the next book! You've been warned.
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