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    Tied
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    Audiobook10 hours

    Tied

    Written by Carian Cole

    Narrated by Guy Locke and Ava Erickson

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Me: My childhood was stolen by a monster. I've forgotten what love feels like. What happiness feels like. What hope feels like. I am numb.

    Him: He's possibly as damaged as I am. Maybe even more. Scarred just as much on the inside as the outside. Just like me. He doesn't speak. He doesn't smile. He hides in the woods like an animal. I should be scared of him, but I'm not. He's the only one that has ever made me feel. And I want to make him feel, too. Everything . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781515984375
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      Omg! Amazing! You will fall in love with Tyler. Her books do not disappoint.

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    • 5/5
      Wow!! Well written and narrated. I enjoyed it very much!

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    • 5/5
      Just wow! Please read this book it's epic and wonderful

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    • 4/5
      This was a great Christmas read altough the book starts rough. But it then unfolds into one of the cutest, coziest, most adorable romances that I've ever read.
      In the beginning of the story, Tyler finds Holly one day in a basement in the woods where she had been kept for almost 12 years by a psycho, from the age of 5 until de age of 17. He manages to kill her attacker and call for help.
      At that point, Tyler had been in a fire that led him to drug abuse and another horrible accident that nearly took his life, almost severed his vocal chords and led him to a lonely secluded life.
      They don't see each other for more than 2 years, in which time Holly is sent by her parents to a facility to deal with her emotional and physical abuse.
      In a lot of ways, Holly is still stuck in her 5 year old state. She is so innocent and sincere and still believes in fairytales. Her parents obviously don't know how to handle her bad experince and pretty much abandon her in that facility. Her brother and his fiancée are the only constant friends she has.
      After 2 years, she finds Tyler and they strike an unlikely friendship. Their love is a slowburn littered with fear and uncertainty but also new love and hope. I liked their friendship so much.
      Behind a gruff exterior marked with bad scars, tattooes and a troubled past, Tyler is actually a very sweet and caring guy, who knows grief and sorrow and comes to care about Holly a great deal. He's always careful with her, he treats like an adult which is more than most of her family does. My only critique here is that we don't get to see much of his healing just a lot of hers. And at some point he mentions that he gets off on fear but that doesn't progress any further. I would have liked to see how the author ties that plot line but it was swept aside.
      I liked Holly as well, I think the portrayal of her recovery was very realistic and it's one of the reasons I like this author so much. Nothing is over the top but real and you can really relate to her characters.
      The ending was wholesome and I think that this story and these characters really needed it.

      About the audiobook from Scribd: 4*
      The narrators have different reading speeds but it wasn't very disturbing in the end.
      Ava Erickson does a great job as Holly but not so much when she has to mimick Tyler's voice.
      Guy Locke does a great job at reading in Tyler's bad voice but he is a bit short and unemotional with his reading.
      Over all it was a good reading experience. But I think this book would be enjoyed more if you read it traditionally.

      Safety: some recollection of the mental abuse that Holly survived, 3 scenes with medium heat.

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      Loved it, until she killed them w cancer n I don't care how long they lived, that's just mean.
    • 5/5
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      The most bitter of beginnings with the sweetest HEA.

      Holy is a survivor. Abducted at the age of 5, she spent 11 years being kept in a hole in the woods. Tyler is a recluse living in said woods who one day finds the girl in the hole and kills her abuser.

      After 2 years of therapy in a local facility, Holy starts to rejoin society, trying her best to be a normal girl not living in constant fear of the bad man. A series of seemingly unrelated events leads her back to the woods where she meets Tyler again. Tyler has kept her dog, Puppy and lets Holy see him as often as she needs. This gives them a chance to get to know each other, but can two broken people mend their wounds and start looking towards a future instead of living in the shadow of their pasts?

      This story was heart wrenching. What broke me the most was the way Holy's parents treated her as an inconvenience. She survived so much pain and yet the people who are meant to love you unconditionally can't welcome you back into their lives.

      Tyler was once a golden boy who had a bright future ahead of him that was ripped away. He couldn't phantom creating a new one, but Holy made him believe. Yes, she was naive with ascribing magical powers to stories, but it was just what Ty's bleak outlook on life needed.

      They enabled eachother in their separation from society, but the promise of working on the familial relationship was good enough for me. I just needed a more fairy tale like bonus scene from the one we got. I also need books on all the Grace siblings.
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    • 5/5
      This is a really good rescue romance trope book! It also has a slow burn element and the writing is exquisite. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone.