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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Book Review of Tru Blue by Melissa Foster

Tru Blue by Melissa Foster
Genre: Adult (Contemporary Romance)
Date Published: November 9, 2016
Publisher: World Literary Press

He wore the skin of a killer, and bore the heart of a lover...

There's nothing Truman Gritt won't do to protect his family--Including spending years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. When he's finally released, the life he knew is turned upside down by his mother's overdose, and Truman steps in to raise the children she's left behind. Truman's hard, he's secretive, and he's trying to save a brother who's even more broken than he is. He's never needed help in his life, and when beautiful Gemma Wright tries to step in, he's less than accepting. But Gemma has a way of slithering into people's lives and eventually she pierces through his ironclad heart. When Truman's dark past collides with his future, his loyalties will be tested, and he'll be faced with his toughest decision yet.

The hits just kept coming for the poor characters of Tru Blue by Melissa Foster. Truman has had a rough life. He spent a lot of it in jail for a crime he didn't even commit, but for him, family comes first. In walks Gemma, and she's like sunshine to his dark clouds. She makes herself a part of his life, and the lives of his little siblings. They become this cute family of sorts. Seriously, they're adorable. Truman is a man with many layers though, and Gemma doesn't know all about his layers yet. There was so much going on in this story. You never knew when danger or trouble or another secret was going to pop up. It really kept the flow of the book going, and I finished reading it in no time. This is a perfect beach or airplane book, because once I started reading it, I was completely immersed in their world, wondering what was going to happen and how Gemma would handle certain information. The time flew by.

The ARC of Tru Blue by Melissa Foster was kindly provided to me by Tasty Book Tours for review. The opinions are my own.

Chapter One
Emotions he didn’t want to deal with burned in his gut, causing his chest to constrict. He turned to go inside, hoping to outrun thoughts of his own fucked-up family, whom he’d tried—and failed—to save. His cell phone rang with his brother’s ringtone, “A Beautiful Lie” by 30 Seconds to Mars.
“I need you,” his brother’s tortured voice implored.
Need me? Truman had hunted down his brother after he was released from prison, and when he’d finally found him, Quincy was so high on crack he was nearly incoherent—but it didn’t take much for fuck off to come through loud and clear. What Quincy needed was rehab, but Truman knew from his tone that wasn’t the point of the call.
Fuck. He hadn’t had a mother since she turned her back on him more than six years ago, and he wasn’t about to throw away the stability he’d finally found for the woman who’d sent him to prison and never looked back.
He scrubbed a hand down his rain-soaked face. “Take her to the hospital.”
“No cops. No hospitals. Please, man.”
A painful, high-pitched wail sounded through the phone.
“What have you done?” Truman growled, the pit of his stomach plummeting as memories of another dark night years earlier came rushing in. He paced the deck as thunder rumbled overhead like a warning. “Where are you?”
Quincy rattled off the address of a seedy area about thirty minutes outside of Peaceful Harbor, and then the line went dead.
Truman’s thumb hovered over the cell phone screen. Three little numbers—9-1-1— would extricate him from whatever mess Quincy and their mother had gotten into. Images of his mother spewing lies that would send him away and of Quincy, a frightened boy of thirteen, looking devastated and childlike despite his near six-foot stature, assailed him.
Push the buttons.
Push the fucking buttons.
He remembered Quincy’s wide blue eyes screaming silent apologies as Truman’s sentence was revealed. It was those pleading eyes he saw now, fucked up or not, that had him trudging through the rain to his truck and driving over the bridge, leaving Peaceful Harbor and his safe, stable world behind.

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  1. Thank you for taking the time to review TRU BLUE today!

    Crystal, Tasty Book Tours

  2. Isn't it a bittersweet feeling when you race to the end of a good book? I'm so happy you enjoyed Tru Blue! Thank you for your review OXOX

    1. It really is. Good stories are like paper(or digital) miracles. :o) Thank you for the opportunity! :)

