The Gravity of Us by Brittainy C. Cherry

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Title: The Gravity of Us
Author: Brittainy C. Cherry
Series: Elements #4
Published by: Audible Studios
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Erin Mallon, Brian Pallino
Length: 7 hours and 52 minutes
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
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Source: Audible
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 #LetsReadIndie Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Big Summer Birthday Bash 2018
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My rating:

Blurb:

Graham Russell and I weren’t made for one another.

I was driven by emotion; he was apathetic. I dreamed while he lived in nightmares. I cried when he had no tears to shed.

Despite his frozen heart and my readiness to run, we sometimes shared seconds. Seconds when our eyes locked and we saw each other’s secrets. Seconds when his lips tasted my fears, and I breathed in his pains. Seconds when we both imagined what it would be like to love one another.

Those seconds left us floating, but when reality knocked us sideways, gravity forced us to descend.

Graham Russell wasn’t a man who knew how to love, and I wasn’t a woman who knew how to either. Yet if I had the chance to fall again, I’d fall with him forever.

Even if we were destined to crash against solid ground.

My Review:

5 stars — Oh you guys.  This one just got to my heart, and I loved it!!  It’s been awhile since I read The Silent Waters, but I’m pretty sure this is my favourite Elements series read.

I listened to this one on audiobook again, and I pretty much had the same feelings about the narrators as in The Air He Breathes.  I enjoyed them, I liked their different voices for different characters, but they don’t necessarily make my faves list.  I actually think I liked Ms. Mallon’s Graham voice better than Mr. Pallino’s.  Again, that’s TOTALLY personal taste stuff, nothing to do with the quality of the narration.

As with The Air He Breathes, I totally predicted quite a few of the twists…at the beginning and at the end.  But that didn’t bring down my enjoyment whatsoever, it’s just hard waiting for that shoe to drop, you know?  Luckily the beginning twist happened fairly quickly…I was worried about that.

As always, I was concerned at the beginning, because Graham truly was as cold as the blurb suggests…cold to the point of rudeness, and maybe just a smidge of cruelty.  I found I was able to adjust to that quality in him since we got glimpses of how he got that way right from the start…and more and more as the book went on.  So while on another character that might have turned me off, I was still able to leave room in my heart for him…  And boy, was he quick to fill up that space.  Watching him thaw—watching him let down his walls—was almost a privilege, you know?  I was just rooting for him so hard.  My heart hurt for the little boy he was and the man he became.  I loved that it wasn’t a quick transformation, but that both Talon (no idea the spelling b/c audiobook) and Lucy wiggled their way inside and showed his heart how to beat.  *sigh*

Lucy was…like a breath of fresh air.  Her heart just came across so pure.  I loved the way she loved her loved ones…how she went all in, caution to the wind.  She really was a hippie weirdo, but in all the best ways.  She was sweet, stubborn, sassy, and…well, Graham nailed it: PURE.  I will admit I was a bit concerned with her fierce stance against certain things with her sister Mari (spelling?).  It wasn’t that I didn’t understand her underlying feelings and agree with them.  But I was concerned b/c she wasn’t trying to understand how Mari got to that place.  But I was okay with how that all worked out.  I also really appreciated how her relationship with Lyric worked out as well…I liked that it wasn’t a happy ending necessarily, but that there was some closure.

As for the Graham and Lucy together?  I felt their connection right away…but not in the love sense…just that they recognized something in each other.  I was HELLA concerned about a cheating aspect to this story, b/c that’s a button issue for me, but that worked out in a way I was satisfied with.  I really loved that we got to watch their relationship grow from begrudging to friendship to more.  I felt all of those steps.

And can I just say that Graham Cracker might be the single best nickname ever?  I loved it every time Lucy used it.

I LOVED Ollie, Mary, Carla and Suzy.  I loved what Ollie brought to the story, and what he brought to Graham particularly.  He was a very impactful secondary character.

So yeah.  This one was a success.  These books have a different feel from the usual contemps I read…a bit more serious I guess.  Not without their lightness, just lots of feelz.  I’ll definitely be looking to finish the series with Fire sometime later this year.