While Clay and Maggie were falling apart…
Daniel and Rachel were falling in love.
Rachel Bradfield has loved Daniel Lowe for most of her life. She has had to sit quietly by while he throws his feelings away on a girl who doesn’t deserve them. Rachel knows she can be everything he needs.
Daniel has always known Rachel was special.
She is one of his best friends. But what Daniel doesn’t realize is that the
girl he has known forever might just be the one he really wants.
Love pulls two people together, while tearing
two others apart. As Daniel and Rachel discover the beauty of first love, their
best friend loses her heart to the deepest darkness. Unable to hold Maggie
together, Rachel and Daniel find out that love doesn’t have to hurt and that it
can change your life.
*The author gifted me an ARC in exchange for an honest review*
“Love has a
way of consuming you. Making you lose all focus. But it could also lift you up
and make your life that much better. Make you feel like it was the only thing
in the world you needed.” – Daniel
Cloud Walking is a novella in the Find You in the Dark
series and should be read after Find You in the Dark due to
spoilers.
This review is going to be short
and sweet – much like Cloud Walking.
I am so glad A. Meredith Walters gave us the opportunity to get inside the
minds of Daniel and Rachel, and see firsthand how they turned a life-long
friendship into something so much more.
Daniel, Rachel, and Maggie have
been best friends since they were all knee high to a grasshopper. While Maggie
and her boyfriend, Clay, are touched upon in Cloud Walking, they aren’t the focus; Daniel and Rachel are. Rachel
has been in love with Daniel for as long as she can remember, but refuses to
voice those feelings. Instead, she sits back and watches him date a girl who
doesn’t deserve him, and lets Daniel walk all over her feelings. Daniel has
always loved Rachel – in a best friend sort of way. Except lately he’s been
seeing her in a different light. He doesn’t see her as just his best friend
Rachel anymore; he sees her as a beautiful girl that would do anything for him
– and he would do just about anything to kiss her. But does he want to chance
it and risk losing her friendship forever?
I have been a huge fan of A.
Meredith Walters ever since I read Find
You in the Dark. Her writing style flows wonderfully, and she has a way of
really making you connect with her characters. When I found out there would be not
only a sequel to Find You in the
Dark, but a short novella about Daniel and Rachel as well!? I think it’s
sufficed to say, I was one happy girl.
I loved seeing the relationship
between Daniel and Rachel evolve from friendship to romance on a firsthand
basis. Sure, we got a little bit of that in Find
You in the Dark, but it was from Maggie’s POV – we were on the outside
looking in. In Cloud Walking, we
finally got to see what was really going on in both of their heads while they
wrestled with their overwhelming feelings for each other. It also really showed
me that Daniel felt just as strongly about Rachel, as she did about him; in Find You in the Dark, that wasn’t
horribly clear. It seemed a little one sided to me, at least up until the night
at the cabin.
I said this was going to be a
short review. Well, I guess I’m a liar so I’ll try to wrap this up. As I stated
earlier, I would highly recommend reading Find
You in the Dark before this novella, because it will give away spoilers. I
adored Cloud Walking, and I think it
was nice to have a feel-good romance to break up the angst-driven books in this
series that showcase Clay and Maggie’s relationship. Plus, best friend romances
are my absolute favorite – Christ on a cracker, I just love them! This was a great, quick read that shows us love
shouldn’t hurt, it should make you feel wonderful…whole…damn it, it should make you feel
like you’re cloud walking! ;)
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