‘WRITE ME HOME’: Emotionally Complex Contemporary Romance

STORY: Ten years ago, the world became a darker place for Ethan DeLuca. Since that day, he’s been punishing himself and pursuing every opportunity to “rescue” everyone but himself. With his grandmother’s health in decline, he returns to his small hometown where he meets Cassidy McAdams. Beautiful and everything Ethan shouldn’t be wishing for, Cass too is hiding scars. (Something she hides by trying to reopen her grandfather’s camp.) Her past is covered in them, and yet despite her walls, Ethan walks into her life as the person she didn’t know she needed. 

Broken hearts, souls and lives collide in their otherwise safe worlds. But what happens when danger lurks around the corner? 

Write Me Home, by Crystal Walton | Book Review

Though I’d (shamefully) forgotten, a couple of years ago I read Crystal’s novel Eyes Unveiled and really enjoyed it. It was a new adult novel about a college-aged couple struggling to find their way towards a healthy future. This novel follows in the contemporary romance genre, but is definitely a mature story with more than one scar lining its emotional pages. It’s inside those pages we discover a woman who has made mistakes that he can’t run from. Mistakes that she very nearly falls prey to yet again. Ethan has conditioned his entire life not to make the same mistakes, and by doing so, very nearly does. Like Cass, he too is too busy running from the sorrow rather than coming to grips with it.

Without mystery, there’d be no awe.” – Crystal Walton

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As a story, Write Me Home is a good one. It’s high on chemistry (translation: lots of kissing!), which is sure to make the romance reader aficionado a happy reader. There are some great character relationships, including the addition of Cass’ best friend Trina (Ti), who also has many a complex emotional blemish ruling her past. The cohesive unit that that characters somehow form is riddled with their respective secrets and the burdens they have carried.

Complex, romantic and bittersweet, Write Me Home is sure to intrigue readers who love this genre (or authors like Courtney Walsh). It’s one of those books that’s more than its “surface.” It’s about healing, forgiveness, and the detours we take before truly finding “home.” ♥

A B O U T THE B O O K

Author: Crystal Walton
Publisher: Impact Editions (Indie)
Source: Amazon Purchase
Publication Date: 2016
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Genre: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
Series: Home in You, Book 1
Rating: ★★★★