Wow! I read this one in 2 days.....so good! The book deals with sensitive issues but is tastefully written. You know what happened with bits and pieces of the past thrown in along the way. I couldn't put this one down. I'm going to go back and buy it to have in my personal library. Tyler and Holly deserved their HEA if ever any couple did. ( )

A dark fairytale infused with light

A shockingly beautiful tale. Rainbows and unicorns are overrated. A man with tattooed scars and a girl without a filter are way more enchanting.

I’m struggling to write this review. This book is going to take me ages to process. I smiled. I cried. I felt chills. Everything about ‘Tied’ was intense. By some stroke of writerly magic, Carian Cole lit up the darkness without extinguishing it.

Not all fairytales are perfect. Perfection is boring. The flaws in this fairytale are why I gave it five stars. ( )

This book... is amazing.
I am trying not to include spoilers but please don't be offended if I give anything away, it's a really difficult book to review without saying too much.
Tyler Grace and Holly Daniels.
Tyler is Tor's brother from the first book.
Obviously from the 'blurb' these two have been through something very traumatic, but their story is the healing from their past. There may be some triggers for readers who have had any of these horrific experiences but the previous events, at least in the case of Holly are not detailed. They are hinted at, odd words recalled or sentences remembered, which I thought was really clever and helped it not become too dark.
Her family. What can I say? I don't know how any family recovers, that's not really possible but let's say moves on from the events that happen in Holly's life, BUT her mother, I just wanted to shake.
I can understand finding it difficult and even wanting to pretend it didn't happen but it did and to help your daughter move on with her life you have got to deal, and the bedroom, I cried. I can understand wanting to protect others but poor Lizzie what sort of life is she going to have.
I think this treatment was heart-breaking.
Even Zac, her brother and Anna, his girl friend, they were amazing but ill equipped to deal with what she had been through and could only help so much.
The amazing writing for me was that you are in Holly's head and life/people/family seem to go around her as normal but you are in her head and I wanted to scream for her. She smiles or agrees but is struggling so much, to get the reader to feel that much is incredible.
Tyler. There is no other woman drama though he thinks back on his life before his trauma and I liked that. There is one incident but it was an amazing twist to the story, very clever.
We hear about Tyler's family a bit, his brother Tanner and a sister, so possibly one of them will have the next book.
I would have liked to have had a bit more interaction with Holly and Tyler's family, esp with Tor and Kenzie but that may come in future books as we learn more about his family.
The ending is definitely a HEA, a bit to sweet but they have been through so much they deserved it. ( )

I read this book first in 2018 and listened to it as an audiobook in 2020. I loved it just as much after listening to it as I did the first time I read it. The characters were written extremely well and I could feel for them and their struggles. The story was believable. The narrators of the audiobook were wonderful and conveyed the emotion of the story through their voices. ( )

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Oh My Giddy Aunt, This Book was so good, a real heart-rending tragic narrative of events that when tied together make a catalogue of disasters that are so awful for both Tyler and Holly, yet needed to occur so these two damaged individuals could be exactly where they stand now together, United, mirrors to each others pain and anguish.
I have read quite a few books by the talented Carian Cole adoring each and every one, but I can Honestly say Tied is my hands-down favourite, a poignant tale of friendship, love and the healing that comes from finding the other piece of you.
So Tied is really the story of Holly and Tyler, two very intense characters.
Tyler, Scarred, antisocial and menacing lives his life away from others in his beloved woods he condemns himself daily for events that he feels he set in motion. isolating himself from everyone that cares about him and earning himself quite a reputation in the small town he grew up in.
Holly has spent ten years in captivity, abducted by a monster and growing up in the dark, her life after the age of eight has been a tragedy, controlled by a monster who did unspeakable things to her.
Now when I originally imagined Tyler's story, I'm not really sure what I had in mind, but this so wasn't it, surprisingly Holly with Ty was so much better than what I had ever envisioned.
I found myself smiling as these two kooky, good weird friends connected and fell in love.

"We're going to be weirdly good together" his raspy voice whispers. "I promise" I smile against his lips as they come down on mine again, harder this time, sealing his statement. I know we will.

god, that really is so romantic and tender, Hollys Prince.
So there we go an amazing read that ticked all my boxes and more, thank you so much to the author for providing me with an arc of Tied, this is my own personal opinion.



Arc Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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