Reviewer: Samantha
I was given a copy of this book from BookTrope Publishing
Summary:
What happens when you uncover years of secrets and find out everything you thought to be true was a lie?
Drew Stevens finds her world turned upside down when her parents are brutally murdered. Soon after, she learns she inherited a property in Bar Harbor, Maine, from recently deceased grandparents that she believed had died when she was a baby.
Drew travels north to settle her grandparents’ estate, but finds more questions than answers as the truth starts unraveling. What she didn’t expect to find was Saint, whose reputation is as tumultuous as his past. But the very thing that brings them together is the same thing that keeps them emotionally caged.
With Saint’s scars so deep and Drew’s so fresh, can the pair heal from their painful wounds or will they be pulled beneath the darkness of their pasts?
Review:
This was the first book I read from Marni Mann, and she had me sold from page one. New adult is a genre I’m really interested in right now, but I also love a good suspense story and Pulled Beneath really married the two. I was beyond curious when Drew receives notice of inheriting the property in Bar Harbor, and trying to piece the clues together once she arrived in Maine. The book boyfriend in this story, Saint, is quite the man. Dark and brooding in the beginning, I sometimes struggled to see why Drew was so attracted to him, but the lines that Mann uses to describe Drew’s inner feelings towards him really opened me up to her world.
“I was drawn to whatever was broken in him, probably in the same way that he was drawn to what was broken in me.”
The book is well-written on every level and the characters will take you to their world and make you live in it with them through the journey of the book and after you read the final page. I look forward to much more from Marni Mann, including books two and three in the Bar Harbor series.
5 stars
About Marni Mann
A New Englander at heart, Marni Mann is now a Floridian inspired by the sandy beaches and hot pink sunsets of
Sarasota. She taps mainstream appeal and shakes worldwide taboos, taking her readers on a dark and breathtaking
journey.
When she’s not nose deep in her laptop, she’s scouring for chocolate, traveling, reading, or walking her four-legged
children. Visit her at www.marnismann.com.
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