The Gravity of Us, an all-new gripping and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is available now!
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.
Excerpt:
Lucy
We didn’t know how to act with one another
after our first kiss. Our situation wasn’t the norm when it came to building a
relationship. We did everything backward. I fell in love with a boy before our
first kiss, and he fell for a girl who he wasn’t allowed to have. Our
connection, our heartbeats, matched one another in our fairytale world, but in
reality, society deemed us as an awful accident.
Maybe we were an accident—a
mistake.
Maybe we were never supposed to
cross each other’s paths.
Maybe he was only meant to be a
lesson in life and not a permanent mark.
But still, the way he kissed
me…
Our kiss was as if heaven and
hell collided together, and each choice was right and wrong at the same exact
time. We kissed as if we were making a mistake and the best decision all at
once. His lips made me float higher, yet somehow descend. His breaths somehow
made my heart beat faster as it came to a complete halt.
Our love was everything good and
bad wrapped in one kiss.
A part of me knew I should’ve
regretted it, but the way his lips warmed up the cold shadows of my soul…the
way he left his mark on me…
I’d never regret finding him,
holding him, even if we only had those few seconds as one.
He’d always be worth those tiny
seconds we shared.
He’d always be worth that
soul-connecting feeling we created when our lips touched.
He’d always be the one I spent
my nights dreaming of being near.
He’d always be worth it to me.
Sometimes when your heart
wanted a full-length novel, the world only gave you a novella, and sometimes
when you wanted forever you only had those few seconds of now.
And all I could do, all anyone
could ever do, was make each moment count.
After we went home that night,
we didn’t talk about it at all. Not the following week, either. I focused on
Talon. Graham worked on his novel. I believed both of us were waiting for the
right time to come up for us to speak about it, but that was the tricky thing
about timing: it was never right.
Sometimes
you just had to leap and hope you didn’t fall.
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I'm having a hard time coming up with words for this review because I just loved Graham and Lucy's story that much. Brittainy Cherry is known for pulling emotions and The Gravity of Us is on exception. It's her final book in the Elements series, a complete standalone with no interconnecting characters.
Here's what we've got: Lucy (the free spirit) and Graham (the hard ass) - after a chance encounter at a funeral, they're almost thrust into each others lives at no fault of their own. Lucy is a nurturer by nature and because of the situation Graham finds himself in, she's got no choice but to help him out.
Graham is moody, closed off and almost reclusive. His life is orderly and just so. Lucy comes in and shakes it up and he's left upside down. The pair are meant for each other, really, but because of their familial ties, their true feelings are forbidden.
I felt a real connection with Lucy. She's a people pleaser, a lover and a fighter. She'll do whatever she has to to make sure everyone else is happy above her own. She's been through traumas and trials but ultimately comes out on top.
It's no secret that I absolutely adore Brittainy's writing. It's so smart and heartfelt and truly unique. Each story is brought to us from a different perspective and completely new and I really love that. Nothing is repetitive, in my opinion, and it's always fresh. With that said, I'm truly sad to see the Elements series go. It's been a beautiful ride and I can't wait to start from the beginning again.
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