The Gravity of Us, an all-new gripping and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is available now!
The Gravity of Us by Brittainy C. Cherry
Release Date: April 13th, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Quirkybird Designs
Book Description:
Graham Russell and I weren’t made for one another.
I was driven by emotion; he was apathetic. I dreamed while he lived in nightmares. I cried when he had no tears to shed.
Despite his frozen heart and my readiness to run, we sometimes shared seconds. Seconds when our eyes locked and we saw each other’s secrets. Seconds when his lips tasted my fears, and I breathed in his pains. Seconds when we both imagined what it would be like to love one another.
Those seconds left us floating, but when reality knocked us sideways, gravity forced us to descend.
Graham Russell wasn’t a man who knew how to love, and I wasn’t a woman who knew how to either. Yet if I had the chance to fall again, I’d fall with him forever.
Even if we were destined to crash against solid ground.
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“Loving Lucy Hope Palmer wasn’t a
choice; it was my destiny.”
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Every single time I read a Brittainy
Cherry book I am overcome with emotion, this woman makes my head and heart
hurt, my eyes leak like a faucet and every single emotional bone in my body
knows it has been touched…well not touched…hammered more like. Brittainy Cherry
is a virtuoso with her deep, thought provoking writing and a total master with
her bone deep character connection. A connection that doesn’t simply apply to
our hero and heroine, no every single character had depth and meaning and there
wasn’t a spare part in the whole book. Everyone had their part to play and they
played it like a philharmonic orchestra. This book was breath-taking from start
to finish. An un-put-down-able read. An unforgettable read. Once again, I was
played by the maestro and while she put me back together again, the journey was
well trodden.
“Sometimes when your heart wanted
a full-length novel, the world only gave you a novella, and sometimes when you
wanted forever you only had those few seconds of now.”
The Gravity of Us is a masterclass of writing, phenomenal,
stunningly beautiful, poetic, honest, emotional and inspirational. This box
ticked all my boxes and then added a few more for good measure. So incredibly
touching and heart felt and all these emotions centred around one of the most
beautiful, caring, considerate, generous and benevolent heroines I have ever
read about. I don’t mean this in a monetary way, our heroine gave someone way
bigger…herself. Every single part, love, time, inspiration, compassion, trust
and empathy to name a few. Lucille is a character that rooted herself into my
heart and soul and she will never leave, nor will I want her to.
“I thought I’d been in love
before. I thought I knew what love was. I thought I understood its curves, its
angles, its shape. But then, I kissed you… And I realized you were the first
and only thing that ever made my heartbeats come to life.”
Lucille Hope Palmer was one of three sisters, the one that
most resembled their mother. Lucille had that weird hippie vibe, in so far as
she was a free spirit, constantly happy, saw the best in everything and
everyone and was one with herself and the world around her. Lucille was the
glue to the Palmer family, none more so than once their mother passed. But
sometimes, glue isn’t enough and even with Lucy’s positivity and
self-sacrificing nature, people needed to make their own mistakes, knowing that
Lucy would always be there to pick up the pieces.
“Heartbreak took love and
mutilated it, humiliated it, scarred it. Heartbreak slowly began to freeze
heartbeats that had once been so welcoming to love.”
Graham Russell is a New York Times best-selling author, he
is rich in everything bar his heart. Graham has been hurt time and time again,
everyone he loves leaves and as a result has made him cold, detached and
impassive. Devoid of love and compassion, extremely blunt, cynical and sarcastic
to a fault and with brutal honesty, Graham pushes everyone way, content on his
emotionless island until someone shows him what he is missing. This is no quick
fix, no instant cure. This is perseverance, this is whittling away unwittingly,
this is like taking an ice pick to a glacier. It takes someone strong willed,
dedicated, cool, calm and collected to deal with Graham’s barbs and dry sense
of humour, but Lucy is unperturbed, she sees the man behind the glacial eyes,
she sees the fleeting flickers and these are the only encouragement she needs.
“She was the girl who felt
everything, and I was the man who felt nothing at all.”
Graham and Lucy’s journey is far from the norm, it is a
battle from the very beginning, but sometimes the heart knows when something or
someone is worth fighting for. Despite the odds, even Mount Everest was
conquered, now it was Graham Russell’s turn. There were many landslides, many
crevices to navigate, many faces to climb, but the summit was breath-taking,
unforgettable. Once again, Brittainy Cherry delivered something tangible, I
lived and breathed this book, I felt every word, every sentence, every chapter.
Brittainy Cherry is the master manipulator of emotions and I don’t ever want
her to change. Another fantastic read and I cannot wait for the next one.
“If you need to fall, fall into
me.”
Excerpt:
Lucy
We didn’t know how to act with one another
after our first kiss. Our situation wasn’t the norm when it came to building a
relationship. We did everything backward. I fell in love with a boy before our
first kiss, and he fell for a girl who he wasn’t allowed to have. Our
connection, our heartbeats, matched one another in our fairytale world, but in
reality, society deemed us as an awful accident.
Maybe we were an accident—a
mistake.
Maybe we were never supposed to
cross each other’s paths.
Maybe he was only meant to be a
lesson in life and not a permanent mark.
But still, the way he kissed
me…
Our kiss was as if heaven and
hell collided together, and each choice was right and wrong at the same exact
time. We kissed as if we were making a mistake and the best decision all at
once. His lips made me float higher, yet somehow descend. His breaths somehow
made my heart beat faster as it came to a complete halt.
Our love was everything good and
bad wrapped in one kiss.
A part of me knew I should’ve
regretted it, but the way his lips warmed up the cold shadows of my soul…the
way he left his mark on me…
I’d never regret finding him,
holding him, even if we only had those few seconds as one.
He’d always be worth those tiny
seconds we shared.
He’d always be worth that
soul-connecting feeling we created when our lips touched.
He’d always be the one I spent
my nights dreaming of being near.
He’d always be worth it to me.
Sometimes when your heart
wanted a full-length novel, the world only gave you a novella, and sometimes
when you wanted forever you only had those few seconds of now.
And all I could do, all anyone
could ever do, was make each moment count.
After we went home that night,
we didn’t talk about it at all. Not the following week, either. I focused on
Talon. Graham worked on his novel. I believed both of us were waiting for the
right time to come up for us to speak about it, but that was the tricky thing
about timing: it was never right.
Sometimes you just had to leap
and hope you didn’t fall.
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About the Author:
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