I’ve been casually lurking on Booksprout for quite a while now, but nothing had taken my fancy until The Tower. I read the first nine-ish chapters that were available for a preview on the platform and I was intrigued.



Right out of the gate, I was hit with such a positive and inspiring dedication:

Most people read to escape because life is sometimes dark, or scary, or hard, but I wrote this book to represent the bravest of us, who experience the worst of the world and still come out fighting.
Some days are harder than others, and sometimes the darkness eclipses the light, but you’ve got to keep getting back up.
Stand strong.
You’re worth a million of them and they know it.

And then came a flurry of writing so immersive, it was like the words took shape and solidified around me to give me a front row seat to both see and feel what was going on: The bleakness and oppressiveness of Jules’ daily life… a threadbare existence of stark hopelessness and violent bursts, of grim determination and constant adversity. It was like everything was covered by a gloomy gray film—until there was red.



A man got shot in the stairwell of her run-down apartment building and she was the only one there to help. And thus the course of her existence was abruptly and intrinsically changed.

Suddenly, a dark cloud of a man was forcefully rolling into her life like an inescapable storm. Drenching her and seeping through her, and inserting himself into every crack there was to find. Dax was such a contradiction: hard, but soft; comfortable, but scary; understanding yet intimidating. And always accompanied by his trusty BFF and head of security, Aiden.

Those first few chapters had me captivated and wanting to learn more about these powerful and mysterious men, and the scrappy girl with an iron spine that had found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time—or, perhaps, it was the right place and right time.

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**I received an ARC of this book from Booksprout in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. **