Echoes of Scotland Street By: Samantha Young

Title:  Echoes of Scotland Street
Author:  Samantha Young
Publisher:  NAL
Series On Dublin Street #5
Reviewed By:  Arlena Dean
Rating: 4.5
Review:

"Echoes of Scotland Street" by Samantha Young

Book Description:

"Shannon MacLeod has always gone for the wrong type of man. After she drifted from one toxic relationship to the next, her last boyfriend gave her a wakeup call in the worst possible way. With her world shattered, she’s sworn off men—especially those of the bad-boy variety.

Cole Walker is exactly the sort that Shannon wants to avoid—gorgeous, tattooed, charming, and cocky. But his rough exterior hides a good man who’s ready to find “the one.” He’s determined to pull Shannon from her self-imposed solitude and win her heart.

As Shannon opens up in the face of Cole’s steady devotion, the passion between them ignites to blazing levels. But when Shannon’s past comes back to haunt her, her fears may destroy the trust Cole has built between them—and tear them apart for good…

What I liked about this novel....

I thought this was a sweet read of how these two met while teenagers for a short time then going on a different path ending up survivors of 'cruel hands' that fate lead them.  We see from the read that Coles hard life has left him  a kind hearted and protective young man (with tattoos)while Shannon has horrible physical and emotional  scars that she finds that even though she has moved to a new town she is still flagged with past memories.  This was some read of  having loved someone who constantly belittle you and making you believer you are worthless, definitely  having your self esteem and confidence completely knocked out of you.  What will  happen when Cole and Shannon meet again?   This is where I say you must pick up this well written inspiring story to find out how this author presents to so well to the reader. 

 This is this authors fifth series of 'On Dublin Street' and this one where Cole is now a intensed handsome tattooed man who is a tattoo artist. Now reconnecting with Shannon he knows that she is the one for him but will she be willing to take a chance with this 'bad boy' since she had been burned by a string of bad boys that almost destroyed her?    But is Cole all bad?  Will Shannon be willing to take a chance with this charismatic, charming, sexy and tattooed guy?  This is where I say you will have to pick up this well written series to see for yourself how well this author presents it to the reader.  I will say that the sex scenes were off the chart 'provocative, sensual and so very passionate.
The characters for this most part where  many were from some of the series as well as this one were well defined, developed, realistic, colorful, believable and even the dysfunctional  ones....all giving the reader the attention needed to keep ones interest during the read.   


I found this story a good contemporary novel from where you may be brought from tears to laughter
as you read through this emotional  and intensed read with some rough and gritty edges.  But in the end you are given a romantic  read that will make you ... well I will stop here and say read it for yourself and you will see how this story focus on second chances for this hero and heroine!