NiCoLeTa E. {Addicted To Books}'s Reviews > Priceless

***5+ "Operation Bang Brandt" stars***



This book was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!!!
This whole series is A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!!!
Every character in them are A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!!!
But Brandt and Sarah were even more A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!



If i will tell you for how long I was waiting for this certain book, you won't believe me...

Since i've read the first book, i fell in love with Sarah, Mason's little sister...
A girl that had a lot of ugly things in her plate to deal...
And then came the second book and Noel Gamble's turn and we met his siblings and one of them was Brandt... A troubled, angry and lost kid...
And when at the epilogue, i saw Sarah and Brandt to the same classroom and i was a total goner...

From that moment, i was craving for this story and i was dying with every book that was coming and it wasn't about Brandt and Sarah....
And finally, i got my hands on this story and i was absolutely captivated!!!

It was worthying all this waiting...

"Three things in my life were fact.
I needed Sarah to survive.
I needed sex to remain sane.
And I could never mix sex with Sarah."

We had take some glimpses from Sarah and Brandt's closeness in the previous books, but it was just that... some minor glimpses...
What i liked in this book, is that our story started with a taste of their past...

How they get known each other, how they came closer, how they were acting around each other, how solid was their friendship... We also saw how much they were in love with each other and how their fears wasn't allowing them to think that the other may have the same feelings and the years were passing by...


"Dammit, I loved brushing her hair as much as I loved her...like love her loved her. Why the hell had I never realized that until this very moment?
This was bad. This was so bad...
Friends. We’re just friends, I commanded myself...
Until I looked up and lost it once more. But she was so pretty in a classically flawless, innocent way. The only word that tumbled around in my head when I looked at her was: mine." {Brandt}

"I loved this man. I loved everything about him. So I’d stop my feelings from straying to places they didn’t belong. Because the last thing I wanted to do, ever, was lose him." {Sarah}

At the present, Sarah and Brandt are at the age of 22...
They have similar lives... and they are closer than ever...
No, not as lovers, but as the best friends ever...

Both of them have feelings toward each other, but noone is acting upon them...

"“Do you hate me?” she asked into the dark room, and I almost laughed.
“I could never hate you.”
If I hated her, then I’d have to hate myself, because what she’d done was nowhere near as awful as what I’d done."

When Brandt was 13, a month before he came to Ellamore, something terrible and quite traumatic happened to him. Something that he didn't share with anyone... neither with Sarah.

Even though that he could die to have Sarah his, and in his mind she was already his, his secret will always keep him away from her... It was something that was holding him back on real things...
But hey, he was a man and even though that he couldn't have Sarah, he could have meaningless sex...


"Sarah was everything pure and sweet and good. Sex was dirty. Dirty and Sarah should never even be breathed in the same sentence....

And that’s how our friendship continued. I kept my sex life private while everything else in me belonged to her."

Sarah was having cerebral palsy, but she was very capable of herself...
She was such a strong woman and i really admired her courage and determination!!!
Yes, she could do many things on her own, but it was about time to start living as a normal girl...

She wanted to know how a kiss would be or how she will feel when a man was lusting over her and wanted to make her his in a sexual manner...
That why, she is taking the decision to go on a date with some guy and when he showed how unworthy was for her, her self-confidence took a blow and she felt unwοrthy herself...


“You matter,” I murmured, knowing the next few words I said may just be the most important thing I ever uttered. “I could lose everyone I know and everything I had, and I’d still be able to handle it as long as I still had you. You’re the only person who does matter to me.”

But Brandt was always there for her and he is trying to make her feel good, but the things are getting out of hand...

And that's not good for him since he never stopped loving her...
And when Sarah is insisting to make love to her, Brandt had it bad....

"I had a dooming premonition I was going to lose her because of her sudden desire to experience a sex life.
I suddenly hated sex.
Shit. No, I didn’t."

So what will happen with those two???
Will Brandt let his defences down and fulfill his Sarah's wish???
And with what cost for him???

Could they put aside their fears and be together as a real couple???
Will Brandt's secret affected their relationship as he thought it will???
Will their friendship survive or will they lose everything they had built the last nine years???


"I’ll always choose her over anyone."

Well, i adored both Sarah and Brandt...
I loved the strong connection that they had from the very first moment that they met...

I loved how protective and caring was Brandt toward Sarah... She was literally his life.
And his biggest fear was to lose her and that's why he stayed away from her in more sensual contact. He couldn't afford to lose her because then he could lose his own sanity...
It was insane how much he loved her and how much he was depending on her...

I also loved that he never once saw her as a problematic person...
He was so tender with her, so considerate in everything that involved her and i just couldn't not love this guy for his whole attitude toward the woman he loved but kept on arm's length...


"What if she wanted more? I would so give it to her, but then I’d so lose her, and that was the one thing I couldn’t do. Sarah was my steady when everything else felt unstable. She was the voice of reason when I was being unreasonable. She was just...there, always there for me, whenever I needed her. I trusted her more than anyone else on the planet, except I guess I couldn’t trust her with the one thing I trusted no one with.
She had my heart, but I couldn’t give her my fears. They’d twisted a part of me, and I was too ashamed to let her see that part, because I was deathly afraid that might be the one thing to send her running for good."

As for Sarah??? God, that girl was a true fighter, a survivor, a hero...

I liked the way that she was seeing life... I liked how much effort she was putting to behave as a normal person...
And what means to be a normal person if he/she has a shitty attitude???
Sarah wasn't normal but her heart was made from gold... and Brandt was seeing her as she truly was...

She was also so considerate for the people around her and she was sweet and caring and so wonderful...
She also loved Brandt with all her heart, but as it was normal she had some insecurities about her condition, so she didn't thought that Brandt could see her in a different way.
She knew that he will be always beside her and he will never betray her, but she wasn't so sure about her self...


"He really was the most amazing person I’d ever met. And he deserved the best, a woman he would walk, run, heck—dance—with. Someone who could keep up with him and take care of him as much as he took care of her. He deserved someone way better than me."

Honestly, this love story crept upon my heart and moved me in so many ways...
It was an epic love... A unique love... A wonderful love...

It doesn't matter if a person has a disability... Everyone can have a chance to love and Sarah deserved to have her HEA... The same goes for Brandt because that man was having a big heart...
I don't think that i will ever forget this story, not that it's ever possible to forget any of the Forbidden men series stories, but especially this one i will hold it forever close to my heart...


“This right here—every single piece of you—is very precious cargo to me. If anyone mistreated it, I’d lose my shit. You’re not just my best friend, you’re my sanity. You’re priceless, Sarah.”

At the end, i would love to say that for one more time, all the previous heroes were fantastic!!!
All of them....

I loved very much how sneaky they were and how eager they were to help Sarah to succeed in her goal...
I laughed for once again with crazy Ten and yep, it wasn't a surprise that he received another one punch... Book and a punch!!! Bahahaha....
For once again, i adored Reese for all this wonderful behaviour toward Sarah since the first day that she meet her...

I loved Mason and i know how much he was loving his sister, but in some point, he made me mad!!! But i forgive him because i love him!!!
And finally, i liked the fact that i got to know more of Colton... The little shit grow up and he is about to graduate...
He was funny at times, wise at other times and i can't wait to read his own story!!!


“He’s like...you don’t get it, do you? You are his.”
My heart thumped hard at his insistence. “Excuse me?”
“He guards you like...shit, I don’t even know, maybe a snarling pack wolf standing watch over his injured mate. It’s as if you’re a part of him, the most vulnerable part.” {Colton to Sarah}

Thank you, Linda Kage for those wonderful stories of yours!!!

And i would like to say how much i loved that you showed us the message from Mary.
I'm so happy that she inspired you to write this story even though that you didn't have a clue about CP.
I think that this book gives a wonderful message and hope to those people who are suffering from this certain disability or similar others...
Everybody has a chance to life and love!!!!