Published: February 23, 2016
Genre: New Adult, Romance, Mature
ARC received via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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She’s a stripper. He’s a preacher. Her name is Faith and he’s been faithless since the day she went away.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t know it’d end like this.
From the beginning, it could only go one way, and straight to hell it did.
My past reads like a film stuck on repeat; fall in in love, get heart broke, and then run. Just fucking run.
And run I did.
Straight back to that place I swore I’d never return.
Straight back to that place where my broken heart lies buried deep within one man's chest.
Noah Parker was my first love. He was my only love.
The only boy that could ever make me feel alive.
The only boy who ever truly broke my heart.
The only boy who could possibly save me from myself.
But Noah isn’t a boy anymore…
Faithless is much, much more than the blurb suggests, the characters are incredibly broken, there's some twists that will shock you, and there's a third character that really should be considered a major character and not secondary. There's also a lot of religious talk, some paranormal, and of course, forbidden romance. While I enjoyed the story, some of the turns took it a bit too far for me to stay completely invested in the story of Faith and her return home.
Told from alternating POV's, but mostly Faith's, we jump into the present time as Faith returns home after leaving a bad situation. However, home is much different than what she remembers and everything she expected to return to is different. As she tries to deal with the changes, her ever present feelings for Noah, and helping him face his demons she looks back on the past ten years of her life, from the moment she met Noah, Luke, and their relationship until the day she ran away. I loved the idea of forbidden romance between a stripper and a preacher, however this was much more than romance. I came out of it thinking quite a lot about good versus evil and acceptance. Some of the scenes completely messed with my head, because I didn't expect evil to play such a huge part in this book. On top of that, the romance that is there is very taboo, it's enough to be uncomfortable, but didn't take away from the book for me in the end. The characters are untrustworthy, but I found myself really feeling for Faith and her life's general lack of direction.
I think Faithless is the kind of book you have to read to be able to judge, it's different than I expected it to be, but enjoyable still.
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