Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha RomigMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Reviewed by: Michelle
ARC provided by author in exchange of honest review
Beyond The Consequences by Aleatha Romig was beyond everything I expected this book to be. This fifth book of the Consequences Series was breathtakingly beautiful. If there was ever a series that I don’t want to end, this would be it. From the first book to this fifth book, readers have seen the transformation, growth, and maturity of the love Tony and Claire has for each other. Their love for each other has deepen, evolved, and has gotten stronger over the years. It is a love built on trust, forgiveness, passion, and a bond so strong that has withstood the test of time.
“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”- Marianne Williamson
This book was so eloquently written that Ms. Romig outdid herself when she made readers see beyond the words. She allowed her readers to FEEL. To feel the deep love, the jealousy, the hurt, the loss, the regret, and most importantly to feel the connections that binds Tony and Claire. What I truly love about this series is that it is truly built on many layers of different characters. Though the story is solely focused and built around Tony and Claire, the secondary characters play a big role into the storyline. Without these characters, there will be no mystery, suspense, romance, friendship, family, and most importantly no Tony and Claire.
In this 5th book, Ms. Romig picks off where readers last remembered Tony and Claire. I thought Claire and Tony reunited with Nichol was the perfect ending to complete their HEA but Ms. Romig treated her readers and fans of the series to another amazing installment that was beyond perfection. I really don’t want to spoil anything for the readers because this book was an absolute delight and treat for me. It left me smiling and crying big fat happy tears. But I will just say, Ms. Romig did not just give us all happy and lovey dovey moments, but in true Aleatha Romig fashion she added a bit of vulnerability, suspense and twist into the storyline. And of course, Ms. Romig not only treated us with the romance of Tony and Claire but also to a brewing romance of Phil Roach and his woman. So if Tony and Claire are not enough justification to read this book, then I’m sure you are dying of curiosity to know who is this lucky lady that captured the heart of Phil Roach.
Beyond The Consequences is a bittersweet read for me. It feels like I’m saying goodbye to Tony and Claire but at the same time I am so thankful and beyond happy that Ms. Romig brought them back. I absolutely love Tony and Claire because their love may not be perfect but what love is. Their relationship and romance may not be of fairytales but 100% their love came full circle. It is a love like no other. A love worth fighting, dying and sacrificing for. When we first started out with this series, Aleatha Romig took my heart, twisted it around, tore it to pieces and then as the series progressed, she slowly taped it back together. So if you haven’t read the Consequences Series, I highly suggest you do. You do not want to miss an epic, heartbreaking, emotional, dark, captivating and fated romance that will have you yearning for more. Tony and Claire’s love and devotion for each other will grip you, touch and will stay with you. And the Consequences Series is a perfect reminder that you don’t have to explain and justify your love to the world. The only thing that matters is that Tony and Claire are two puzzles pieces that fit together.
“No, Tony. I didn’t make you into anyone. You’ve always been this man. People don’t change: they hide. The man you were was a shell hiding the man you are today. The woman I was, when you first took me, was a shell hiding the woman I was afraid to be. I didn’t make you. You didn’t change me. And I thank God that once our shells were broken that the two people we really were fit together so well. “ ~Claire
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