Bien que je n’ai pas lu le premier opus, ce livre là je voulais absolument le découvrir ! Pourquoi ? Premièrement, il s’agit bien évidemment d’une romance New-Adult MM, deuxièmement le résumé est des plus accrocheurs. Et troisièmement (et c’est le plus important), c’est la sublime Emma Scott qui l’a écrit ! Et vous savez quoi ? Ce fut un autre coup foudre livresque !
Avant d’aller plus loin, je tiens à préciser que bien qu’il s’agisse d’une suite cet opus peut être lu indépendamment de l’autre. Cependant, une fois que vous aurez rencontrer cet autre garçon perdu, comme moi vous risquerez de le regretter et vous serez plus que tenter de découvrir également son histoire.
Mais revenons à nos deux héros Holden & River. Deux êtres exceptionnels portant de lourds fardeaux qui m’ont touchée en plein cœur et qui rejoignent désormais ma liste de bookboyfriends préférés. Oui je sais ma liste s’agrandit de jour en jour. Mais que voulez-vous. Quand il s’agit des âmes blessées et égarées, je craque complètement.
Holden est une âme brisée à tout les niveaux. Ce qu’il a subi est tout simplement horrible (et encore je pèse mes mots). Il est tellement abîmé psychologiquement qu’il lui est impossible de ressentir quoi que ce soit et de faire confiance à quiconque.
River est une âme démunie qui s’est perdue et qui cache à merveille sa douleur, son mal-être ainsi que ses rêves au détriment des autres. Tout ce qu’il veut c’est qu’on le voit réellement, ressentir à nouveau et pouvoir aimer librement.
Tous les opposes. Et pourtant tels des papillons de nuit attirés par des flammes, ils ne peuvent résister à cette attraction. Une relation interdite et secrète qui ne sera pas un long fleuve tranquille. Bien au contraire. Et malgré toutes ces éprouvantes et douloureuses épreuves, les démons intérieurs, les doutes, les blessures, ils vont vous prouver qu’ils se complètent en tout point…
Que dire des autres personnages ? Eux aussi ont leur importance. Si certains sortent du lot et vont agréablement vous prendre au dépourvu pour leur soutien et leur loyauté. D’autres par contre vont vous littéralement dégoûter comme ces personnes méprisables et abjectes.
En bref… De tous les livres que j’ai pu lire d’Emma Scott, « When you come back to me » est de très loin le meilleur ! Un petit chef d’œuvre abordant des sujets graves de notre société et laissant un magnifique message d’espoir. Un récit poignant et saisissant de deux êtres parfaitement imparfaites qui vous happera dès les premières pour ne plus vous lâcher, qui vous ébranlera dans tous les sens du terme, qui marquera les esprits et qui est bien évidemment à découvrir ! Enfin je terminerai avec une mention spéciale pour cet époustouflant épilogue qui m’a fait pleurer à chaudes larmes mais de joie… et j’attends avec impatience la suite à venir…
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On the stage, Miller spoke into the mic in a low, almost shy voice. “Hey, my name is Miller Stratton. I’m going to play a song by Coldplay. It’s called ‘Fix You.’”
I let my gaze slide to Holden, studying the contours of his profile—his chiseled jaw and cheekbones, strong nose, full lips. He swallowed, and I watched the movement of his Adam’s apple. Thoroughly masculine. Nothing feminine about it.
“Can I help you?” he whispered, eyes forward.
“It sucks not talking to you,” I said, as Miller strummed the first chords of the song. “I don’t know why. You’re arrogant as fuck.”
“Fair. You’re a grilled cheese sandwich.”
I snorted. “A what?”
“Shh,” Holden said. “Listen. This is our song.”
Our song. Nothing was ours. There was no us. But Miller sang that if you never try you’ll never know, and the words pierced me like arrows. I took my hand out of my pocket and let it hang by my side again. Again, my skin brushed Holden’s, sending shards of heat dancing up my arm while Miller sang about lights that ignite your bones.
I looked at Holden and he looked at me.
Without letting myself think, I slipped my fingers around the side of his hand and slid my palm against his. He gasped slightly—a small intake of breath only I heard in the darkened auditorium. Then he let his hand settle into mine. Another heartbeat, and our fingers laced together.
“And I will try,” Miller sang, his rich voice hovering in the air in that silent auditorium.
“To fix you.”
A short silence fell before the crowd erupted in thunderous cheers, unlike anything I’ve ever heard. Miller’s version of the song was unlike anything I’d ever heard either, as if he were singing directly to me. To us.
Because it’s our song.
Under the cover of applause, I let go of Holden’s hand and tugged the cuff of his coat.
“Let’s go.”
I left without looking back but heard Holden’s footfalls following. Warning bells clanged in my head but were drowned in the thrashing beat of my heart that felt as it were trying to break free of its prison like it had at the pool. Only this time I was stone cold sober. No excuses.
I pushed open the door next to the auditorium—the back area of the band room that was for instrument storage. Huge basses loomed in dimness, and drums of all sizes and styles lined the walls.
Holden followed me in and shut the door behind him. “Hello, friend.”
“I put in my college applications,” I said as he approached me in the darkness. “I’m going away to Texas or maybe Alabama this summer.”
“Establishing the rules, are you?” he drawled, though his voice was thick and tinged with nerves.
I swallowed hard. “Nothing’s changed. Nothing can change.”
“I told you,” Holden said, in front of me now. “I’ll never ask you for anything. I don’t have anything to give. Except this.”
I wanted to tell him that wasn’t true, that I was the one who had nothing to offer. I shouldn’t have led us here. I should walk out, but his goddamn voice, the scent of him, his presence was overwhelming. My hands itched to touch him, to grab him and…Kiss him?
My first kiss with a guy. It seemed as if I’d been waiting a lifetime for it and yet the moment was rushing at me like a speeding train.
“Stop thinking, River,” Holden whispered. “We’re here. Right now.” He leaned in.
“What are you going to do?”
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