My reading experience with this one was a lot like watching a man plays video games and his whole body is moving left and right with the controller in his hand, swearing that’s helping him do better in the game. I was like, "No there’s not enough room in his book to hash the rest of this out - oh my gosh - what am I gonna do - holy cow - someone help her -someone help him - someone help ME!!" Thea and Ramsey are both fighters. They were both dealt a crappy hand in life, but they always had each other and that made all the difference. I loved Thea so much. She's definitely going on my 'top heroines' list. She's resilient, faithful, and unwavering in her love and devotion. Ramsey was amazing as well. Though there were times I wanted to shake him, I completely understood why he did the things he did. Their story was heart breaking at times, but it was also healing and beautiful. They get ripped apart for Twelve years, eight months, three weeks, four days, twelve hours, and forty-three minutes

I didn’t know it then, but that day, Ramsey Stewart saved my life. And six years later, I’d repay him by ruining his life.” Aly was born and brought up in Savannah, Georgia in The United States. After completing her graduation, she got married ad is now the mother of 4 children. Two of her kids are twins and Aly considers all the 4 of them to be quite crazy in nature. Aly has always been interested in reading and writing and decided to give a hand at writing romance novels and fiction novels, just to make it a habit in her free time. But, she slowly became more and more indulged into writing and has turned herself into a full-time writer. Aly has said that she is quite a stay-at-home kind of mother and spends the little time that she gets after looking after her kids in reading anything and everything that catches her eye. As all her kids are less than 5 years old, she gets any free time to write. This probably the reason that she has published very few novels. However, she has plans of devoting her full time to professional writing once her kids become old enough to take care of themselves. As of now, Aly lives in Chicago along with her husband and children. She always prefers to have a glass of wine at her side at the time of reading. Before becoming an author, Aly had taken up a number of odd jobs and it was on the advice of her friends that she decided to become an author. She loves to enjoy life the way it is and does not hesitate in befriending anyone she meets as she believes that life is too short to make enemies or keep grudges against others. She always suggests other to be happy with whatever they have in their life and always hope for a better future. No woman deserves to be verbally abused. I couldn’t understand why the heroine was so pathetic and took his verbal abuse. He just should have stayed in prison. What kind of a man blames the woman/girl he loves for ending in prison? She did not tell him to kill the boy that raped her. To throw it in her face was disgusting, he deserves to be hit with a bat in the face.I'm not really in the reviewing mood today, but I want to get something up here before I completely forget to do so... Yeah, cuz apparently she doesn’t care if he’s with other women she would still wait for his ass. Mind you he never was with anyone but that’s not the point here. For her to be this pathetic not caring that he had sex with someone else while she begged for his ass.

Get ready to have your mind completely blown once again by the talented Aly Martinez. I don’t know why I keep forgetting to have my guard up whenever I read one of her stories. I thought I knew what road she was planning to take Ramsey and Thea down. I was 100% invested in getting to the HEA for this couple because if anyone deserved it, it was these two. Life had been entirely too cruel to them for far too long. The angst was at an all-time high but I’m used to that with Aly’s books, but MAN, I DID NOT SEE THAT PLOT TWIST COMING!!! Ramsey is a savior by nature. He slips into a shielder & protector mode instinctively for his loved ones- his mom, his sister and now Thea. Sadly, I didn’t feel their connection, or chemistry or love. That’s why, I felt detached and the whole thing felt like a bit forced. There are two things in this world that Ramsey cares about. His little sister and a girl who stole his start from the moment he fell out of a tree. But when he goes to prison at the age of seventeen for doing something he felt was right at the moment, little did Ramsey know that he was going to spend the next twelve years without the love of his life and that one moment will change his loved ones. What is wrong with you asking her to bring you here today?” he snarled. “How many times do I have to scrape you off before you finally get it?”

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But with that first kiss, Ramsey sealed our promises. Promises that would change us for the better, for the worse, and for everything in between.

From USA Today Bestselling Author Aly Martinez comes an emotional new standalone. Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my soul in ways time could never heal. At twelve, he asked me to be his girlfriend. At thirteen, he gave me my first kiss. By sixteen, we’d fallen in love, planned a future together, and had our eyes set on the horizon. Love never fails, right? But for Ramsey, it did. Love failed him. I failed him. The entire world failed him. At seventeen, Ramsey was convicted of killing the boy who assaulted me. Move on, he wrote in his first and only letter from prison. Start a new life, he urged. I don’t love you anymore, he lied. There was no such thing as giving up on Ramsey. Love may have been our curse, but he was mine–then, now, and forever. So here I am, twelve long years later, waiting for a man I don’t even know to emerge from between the chain link gates. Release (Release #1) by Aly Martinez – eBook Details

Thea hated Ramsay when she met him but at that time she would have hated anyone, there was so much bitterness in her. Ramsay's smile, his cheerfulness, his persistence of not letting Thea's abrasive behavior drive him away broke through her walls and they became first best friends, then lovers and then...nothing. The tables have turned and it is now Thea fighting for Ramsay. Isn't that beautifully righteous? And fight she does. Damn that girl can play dirty. I loved how she just soldiered on although she was dying inside from the hurt Ramsay delivered because he thought he needed to protect her. So, yeah. Aly Martinez had me all up in my feelings again with this one. WAY up. But the two most prevalent ones had me laughing at one point and smiling from ear to ear the next - hilarious anecdotes and deep discussions of the past providing a serious emotional barricade. But that certainly doesn't negate the fact that a twist thrown in there didn't just make me gasp like, "no biggie!"