His confidence on a hiatus, his swagger on sabbatical, and his ego bruised, Patrick Hayward is a shell of the man he once was. Cursing at and writing off love after the only woman he let himself fall for wound up marrying his older brother, Patrick enrolls himself at Stanford hoping college life, the California girls, and the epic surf will get him back to his free-spirited, ladies-man-extraordinaire self.
Just when Patrick feels the shadow of himself returning, Emma Scarlett enters his life, seeing through his shenanigans and calling him on his crap.
Intrigued by this fascinating creature who is ignorant to his charm, surrounded by four older brothers that look at Patrick like he’s a bug to squish, and dating the same guy for the past six years who gives new meaning to the term territorial boyfriend, Patrick gravitates to Emma, knowing she’s everything he shouldn’t fall for.
So, of course, he can’t help himself.
It doesn’t take long for Patrick to discover Emma has as many secrets as he does. And hers may be just as dark as his.
This time, falling for the girl could not only break his heart, but his spirit.
FISSURE is the first installment in the two part series, THE PATRICK CHRONICLES, and is a side story to the best-selling YA series, THE EDEN TRILOGY. The final installment, FUSION, will be released in the summer of 2012
Author: Nicole Williams
Series: The Patrick Chronicles #1
Genre: New Adult
Published: April 2012
Source: Goodreads
Thoughts:
Someone should have told me that reading the Eden Trilogy is a prerequisite to reading this series. As far as side stories go this one was hella confusing! I feel like I’ve been dropped on my head in the middle of some weird alternate universe.
Now that I know I’m going in blind and have no idea what the hell it is I’m reading I’m going to continue and when I’m finished not write a review based off what I read but more of how it was written.
So far good, but way too many tangents, Patrick’s mind is a labyrinth I cannot navigate. A part of me believes that even if I had read the Eden Trilogy his inner monologues would leave me confused regardless.
I find it very odd that Emma is so opinionated, sarcastic and a general ball-buster where Patrick is concerned. Yet she is somehow being abused by her masochist of a boyfriend, and she’s okay with that?! And this is where I’ll get “boos” I don’t do domestic violence books because unless its written properly I usually don’t feel any sympathy for the woman. I’m not saying that she’s at fault or deserves whatever some jackass hands to her but simply put: domestic violence writing is sensitive and if not done in a believable and relatable way usually leaves me feeling like (universal) she is some dumb woman who needs to get her shit straight. More often than not its been done well and I know its done well when I feel anger on behalf of the woman and not anger towards her. In this case, I felt anger towards Emma and her “sunny” disposition (while heroic) contrasted too much with her circumstances for me to get angry on her behalf. I just couldn’t sympathize with her.
Honestly, not only was I confused like I said earlier but this book wasn’t anything special to make me (now that I’ve finished it) want to go back and read the first three so I can better understand what they are and what they do. And I also have no desire to continue this series.
But for all those who want to give this series a try, Read the Eden Trilogy first or you will end up not reading the rest of this series or the one before it.
Last Line: “Don’t worry about me, Em. No bars can keep me caged.”
2.5 Stars
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