Review: Fallen Too Far by Abbi Glines!

Fallen Too Far (Fallen Too Far #1)

By Abbi Glines

Release Date: 12/15/12

Summary from Goodreads:

To want what you’re not supposed to have…

She is only nineteen.

She is his new stepfather’s daughter.

She is still naïve and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother.

But for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.

Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous. He is also getting under her skin. She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that…

Blaire just may have fallen too far.

I am a huge Abbi Glines fan!  I’ve read all of her books except her Sea Breeze series (although I own the series and plan to read it soon!).  She has a way of making you connect with her characters that you feel like you lost a little piece of yourself when you finish one of her books.  As soon as I saw the cover for Fallen Too Far I knew I wanted to read it.  Honestly, I didn’t really care what it was about because a) It’s an Abbi Glines books so I knew it would be good, and b) Just look at that hot cover!  Seriously, I think I stared at it for a while before I actually started the book.  The fact that the summary sounded fantastic was just icing on the cake for me.

Blaire has had a rough couple of years.  After losing her sister in a car accident her dad walks out on her and her mom.  Then her mom gets cancer and Blaire’s life is put on hold to take care of her.  She had to drop out of high school, get her GED, take care of her mom, bury her mom and sell their house and almost everything they owned to pay off medical bills.  Things nobody should go through, especially not a 19 year old girl on her own.  But seeing as she has nowhere to live, she decides to suck it up and asks her dad if she can live with him until she gets enough money to get her own place.  She leaves Alabama but when she gets to the address her dad gave her, she finds out that the house belongs to her new stepbrother, Rush and that her dad has taken off with his new wife.  Rush is a privileged bad boy with reputation of a ladies’ man.  From the beginning, he is snappy and rude to Blaire but he decides to let her stay at his place for a month.  The attraction between them is immediate, no matter how much Rush tries to deny it.

I really liked Blaire, she was tough but also very sweet and innocent.  Despite the horrible things life has thrown her way, she is strong and she doesn’t let it get her down.  She likes Rush and isn’t afraid  of letting him know.  Rush was a tougher character for me.  I’ve loved all of Abbi’s boys (hello Beau and Vincent!) but Rush was more of a challenge for me.  He was rude and cold to Blaire at first, which doesn’t really bother me.  I think the thing that didn’t allow me to connect with Rush from the beginning was that we don’t get to read the story from his POV.  I think I was in about 65% of the story when my brain finally accepted that I wasn’t going to be getting inside his head.  If I could have known what he was thinking all those times that he was an ass to Blaire, I think I would have been able to understand him more.  I did end up liking him though, once he started being nice to Blaire and especially once we got to see him in action.  Like any other Abbi Glines book, the relationship between them was intense and they had amazing chemistry.  She pushes the level in this book more than any other and I loved the result.  We get to read some HOT scenes between Blaire and Rush that had me flushed (hint: tongue ring, back seat action).  But Rush is hiding something big that will definitely affect their relationship once Blaire finds out.  

I gotta say, I was not expecting this to be part of a series and once I got over the shock I loved where this story ended, although I hate that I have to wait to read Never Too Far.  Like always, Abbi also writes some amazing secondary characters and in this book Grant and Woods stole the spotlight in almost all of their scenes.  Grant is Rush's stepbrother (this family is screwed up) and he was always very nice to Blaire.  Woods was a rich guy who hit on Blaire and although he seemed slimy at first, he ended up being a really good friend to her too.  I really hope we might get to read their stories someday.  Fallen Too Far was another Abbi Glines hit for me, the only thing keeping me from giving this 5 stars is that I wish we had Rush POV scenes.  I REALLY hope that we get them in Never Too Far.  Can’t wait to see where Abbi will take us next with Blaire and Rush!

4.5 out of 5 sparkly stars!

Some of my favorite non-spoiler quotes from Fallen Too Far:

- “That first night I tried to get rid of you. Not because I disliked you.” He let out a hard bitter laugh. “But because I knew. I knew you’d get under my skin. I knew I wouldn’t be able to stay away. Maybe I hated you a little bit then because of the weakness you’d be able to find in me.” 

-You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be… and trust me I’ve thought about it. A lot.

“I thought you weren’t a cuddler, Rush,” I said as he ran his nose along my neck and inhaled loudly.
“I wasn’t. Only with you Blaire. You’re my exception,” he whispered then tucked my head under his chin and pulled the covers up over us.

“Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.” 

-His eyes never left mine. I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could even see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn’t enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn’t. Not when your soul was shattered. 

-Rush would be my first. It just felt right. Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy who taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.

About the Author

Abbi Glines can be found hanging out with rockstars, taking out her yacht on weekends for a party cruise, sky diving, or surfing in Maui. Okay maybe she needs to keep her imagination focused on her writing only. In the real world, Abbi can be found hauling kids (several who seem to show up that don’t belong to her) to all their social events, hiding under the covers with her MacBook in hopes her husband won’t catch her watching Buffy on Netflix again, and sneaking off to Barnes and Noble to spend hours lost in the yummy goodness of books. Her debut novel, BREATHE, can be found in digital format at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Existence, a YA paranormal, was released December 13, 2011 by Wild Child Publishing. She also released a YA contemporary romance, The Vincent Boys this Fall. She just released her first New Adult contemporary, Because of Low. She is currently editing the second book in the Existence Trilogy, Predestined. If you want to find her then check Twitter first because she has a severe addiction to tweeting @abbiglines. She also blogs regularly but rarely about anything life changing. She also really enjoys talking about herself in third person. 

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