Kensie has spent the last three years of college in San Diego, California attempting to start over from the chaos her father’s abandonment has caused in her life, but she remains irrecoverably stagnant. Seeking out a purpose for herself, Kensie visits a local tattoo shop where she meets August. The handsome stranger leaves Kensie both captivated and wary. Fate brings them together enough times for Kensie to let down her guard giving August a chance, and she finally finds the movement in her life she had been searching for.
Feeling like the pieces of her pixelated life have finally come into focus, Kensie gives herself over to August completely. As she finally learns to trust August and herself she learns of a secret he has been keeping from her. It is a devastating truth that has Kensie facing her deepest fears of shame and abandonment. Finding the strength to overcome her despair, Kensie finds herself becoming a source of strength for August. Together they discover that within hope there is life, and that within trust there is love.
“Thanks, dude.” The customer spoke, and holy vibrations. It was him. I feared looking in his direction, but the way my skin prickled suggested he had been watching me before I noticed him. I faced Lennon but chanced a quick glance at the ugly fool out of the corner of my eye.
“Shit,” I murmured under my breath. He was anything but ugly. He was quite the opposite of ugly. He was handsome, gorgeous, masculine, fucking hot, but nope, not ugly at all. I had to repeat the word ugly in my head to keep myself from doing the very thing I was doing now. My traitorous body had drifted to face him without my permission and left me in prime gawking range, drooling, gaping, call it what you will. I called it appreciating. I was appreciating his resistance to ugly and mentally raising my arm in support.
Truth In Wildflowers was a fantastic story. This story will show you how two people that deal with there own grief and sadness can bring each other back from the shadows and show each other that true love does exist. I would give this book a 4 star. This is the first time I have read anything by Kimberly Rose but I will be following her in her journey well into the future. The passion between August and Kensie will melt your hearts and panties. So get ready Divas for a fun filled passionate ride with this amazing story!
Kensie is your everyday college student, but she has a past that she isn't proud of. She also has a father that left and chose to be with another family and that eats away at her heart. She vowed to never fall in love again because she loved once and it nearly destroyed her. One day that will all change when she walks into a tattoo parlor and meets the sexy as sin August.
August has been living life in the shadows, he has been through great tragedy and has never pulled himself back from the depths of despair. He can't find it in himself to truly love another person because his heart is to disturb by his own grief and loss... but one day his life will be turned upside down when a beautiful girl Kensie walks into his life.
"Oh Kensie, you're anything but a bystander." He reached his arm around my shoulders and squeezed me to him. "You are the wildflowers."
Through more chance meetings they realize that August is one of Kensie's best friends brother. While there relationship starts out and steams up.. there pasts with catch up with them and it may possibly destroy what they were working so hard towards. Can these 2 work out there own demons from there past and find there HEA??
You need to take a chance with this book I guarantee you won't be disappointed at all! Oh and lets not forget the side characters... Wes..Lennon..Capri... I want them all to have there own stories because you will fall in love with them too! Lets not forget how much you will want some gummy bears when your done with this story!! Thanks for a great story and I look forward to so much more!
Truth In Wildflowers by Kimberly Rose is a story filled with so much emotion, the reader is dragged into the story from the very first words on the page and is held captive there until the very last page is turned. This book was a 4 star read for me and i would highly recommend it to others, although I do suggest that you have a tissue handy when reading because you may need it.
"That's a beautiful story. The wind showed her what it was to live a life full of love. I paused a moment. I want wind. August Smiled down at me and I saw the stars reflected in his beautiful wise eyes. I'll be your wind."
August had been living his life, without really living. He was going through the motions but he was almost absent from them; holding onto the guilt of his past, a past that he couldn't have controlled no matter how much he wanted to. Only his close friends and family knew of the tremendous loss that he felt and the guilt that went along with it; how he allowed himself to be held captive by it believing that he didn't have a right to the happiness that he felt when he was with Kensie.
Kensie had sworn off guys for the last three years and she had avoided dating; no guy ever grabbing her attention the way that August had that day in the tattoo parlor. With her best friends Lennon and Capri by her side; she was having fun in college; hanging with the girls never realizing that something was missing; that is until August walked back into her life one night at the local bar. After discovering that August was Capri's brother, all bets were off between the two as their attraction for each other only grew.
Working together at the local youth center where Kensie was teaching a dance class and August ran the sports program, their relationship began to blossom but not without its moments of uncertainty. August was often absent or running off to take care of family business and he had a relationship with his ex Bree that Kensie did not seem to understand. The reader can feel that there is something monumental that August is keeping from Kensie, something that could possible destroy the relationship that they are building and you wait with baited breath to turn the page and discover what that secret could possibly be.
Truth In Wildflowers continues to bend and weave around Kensie, August, Bree and Capri, all of them knowing the tragic truth that August is hiding but Kensie. There are time when Capri is talking to her brother, urging him to come clean with Kensie that I wanted to yell at my kindle and tell him to man up already before he lost her forever. And my heart broke for her when it was Bree who revealed it, in the most unflattering of ways.
I am keeping my review vague on purpose for I believe that the true heart of the story is in discovering everything while reading and shouldn't be through a review but make no mistake that I absolutely love this book! Make sure that you go one-click this book right away, I promise that you will not be disappointed!
Augustana- Sweet and Low
Digital Underground- The Humpty Dance
Bruno Mars- Treasure
Dave Matthews Band- Crush
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus- Angel
Beyonce- Run the World
Coldplay- Fix You
Augustana- Fire
Nine Inch Nails- Hand that Feeds
30 Seconds to Mars- The Kill
Coldplay- The Scientist
Christina Perri- Human
AUGUST
August was faced with decisions and circumstances that teenagers shouldn’t have to face. Those experiences made him into the man Kensie falls in love with. He is responsible, grounded, and he is fiercely devoted to those he loves. Most notably, he knows what he wants in life and harbors no hesitations in getting that, including Kensie.
KENSIE
A desire to move makes up a large part of Kensie’s personality. Not only is she a dancer who finds peace in movement, but she has vowed to herself to begin finding her purpose. She is determined and brave facing her deepest fears and conquering her desires. Meeting August only encouraged Kensie to continue down the path of seeking personal strength she had already begun on her own.
Kim is a binge reader, devouring books one after another. She's creates characters and stories in the same way maintaing a notebook of thoughts and ideas. Truth in Wildflowers is the first time two characters have found a home in a full length book.
Kim lives with her wonderful husband and fashionista daughter wherever the Navy takes them.
