Too Beautiful to Break

What an incredibly intense read! Book 4 continues with Belmont and Sage making the journey to New York for the Polar Plunge. This was Belmont's mothers dying wish, for all four of her children to do this together. They all started out on the road trip and with each book, a sibling battled their demons and found love.

It seems Tessa Bailey saved the most wounded for last. Belmont and Sage both have so many demons they are dealing with. They've dealt, up to this point, in a co-dependency that Sage knew wasn't healthy. She knows this because her parents have done the same thing for her whole life. Leaving her feeling abandoned and living on the outskirts.

This whole book was just intense. The way Belmont needed Sage, it was as if he couldn't breath without sharing the same air as her and yet he never felt he could truly have her. Sage has her own issues to deal with, but also tried everything she could to help Belmont with his. He comes off as weighed down by his issues and yet he was probably the strongest of them all.

Too Beautiful to Break is an appropriate title for these two people. The love and determination displayed was powerful and inspiring. It was a great ending to the series. ARC provided by NetGalley.

I’m the type of person that needs to know the end so I did just skip through to the end to see how it ended. I really tried but this book was a no. I hated their relationship.

I don't know where to begin. I struggled to finish this book. I didn't like the codependency of the main characters. I don't know how both could be so insecure and someone end up better in the end. Belmont seemed so big and strong through the other siblings' books but in this I couldn't shake the image of him being a scrawny guy with no life experiences. The ptsd from his past didn't seem to be as of a deal as it had been pushed to be throughout the rest of the series. The issues with Sage's family seemed so unlikely and not at all realistic. I know mining towns still exist, but to ruled as if it has its own laws is strange.

I also struggled with A LOT of geographical inconsistencies, which is a pet peeve of mine, and I almost tossed the book out for that. Ice and snow in Louisiana, especially overnight? Clear, blue water in Coney Island? The time it took for them to get from Cincinnati to Louisiana, or that they were already past Christmas, still made it to NY for New Year's Eve and Belmont also finished whatever therapy he was giving himself in the mine. I could go on.

I would've rated this 1 star, however, I loved the ending. I did not expect it. The entire time I struggled with this book I kept hoping the siblings would reunite and I was so worried they'd never finish the trip their mother wanted for them.