The Fire Between High & Lo
By: Brittainy C. Cherry
Book Series: Elements
Book Number In Series: 2 of 4
Genre: New Adult Romance
Format: Kindle Unlimited
Publisher: BCherry Books
Publication Date: March 25th 2016
My Rating: 3 ½ Stars
Blurb:
There once was a boy, and I loved him.
Logan Francis Silverstone was the complete opposite of me. I danced while he stood still. He was quiet, and I was always running my mouth. He struggled to find a smile while I refused to frown.
The night I saw the darkness that truly lived inside of him, I couldn’t look away.
We were broken together, yet somehow whole. We were wrong together, but always right. We were the stars that burned across the night sky, searching for a wish, praying for better tomorrows.
Until the day I lost him. He threw us away with one hasty decision—a decision that changed us forever.
There once was a boy, and I loved him.
And for a few breaths, a few whispers, a few moments, I think he loved me, too.
My Review
The Fire Between High & Lo is the second book in Brittainy Cherry’s Elements series. Logan and Alyssa’s story can be read as a standalone. But be warned if you are TRIGGERED by drug abuse, domestic assault, and addiction you may want to skip this one.
Brittainy C. Cherry brings the emotions, once again, with The Fire Between High & Lo. I love the way Brittainy tells a story. I love the angst and the turmoil each couple faces, and I love the redemption period each individual faces. There were many moments I loved about The Fire Between High & Lo, but there were also moments I disliked and/or needed a bit more from.
Logan comes from a life of angst and turmoil. Having a drug addict as a mother and a drug dealer as a father, life can’t be any more heavy than what his life is. He lives his life protecting his mother from the abusive asshole he calls his father. He also puts up with a lot of mental and emotional abuse from his mother. Which in turn leads him down the road he never thought he’d travel down. The road where drugs are an escape from the hardships of life. Logan has always viewed love as a negative crutch. Love is nothing but a four letter word to spread manipulation. My heart broke repeatedly for Logan and all he had to go through in his life.
But throughout his life, there were two constants. Two people he would wholeheartedly depend on. Two people who would get him through any fire he crossed. The first person being his older brother, Kellan. He was the dependable older (half) brother. I loved the one on one moments between Logan and his brother. I felt the chemistry and the sibling love shining bright through these moments and these were some of the moments I found myself crying the hardest.
The second constant was his best friend Alyssa. He even nicknamed her High due to the fact that she was the greatest High he could achieve. He didn’t need drugs when she was around. But eventually you become immune to one high and that only leads you reaching for something stronger. I rooted for Logan to find his happily ever after with Alyssa. I rooted for these two so freaking hard, it’s not even funny. I love when best friends find their happily ever after within one another. So when Logan and Alyssa FINALLY got together, I was over the moon……. And then it happened and I felt myself free falling and landing, once again, flat on my ass. I’ve stated this time and time again, I really dislike the lack of communication trope that tends to be used often to stir the pot in novels. I hate the avoiding issues tactic. I just want everyone to be happy and live happy and love happy….. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK!!!!!
Everything that happens after this sets into place an endless array of drugged out escapades. Without getting all the facts Logan disappears without a trace, leaving his brother and his best friend to worry. And this was a turning point for me, I really despised Logan’s character from here on out. I loved this man and my heart repeatedly broke for him, but then all this bullshit happened which resulted in a chain reaction of angst and misery all because someone couldn’t man up and listen to the true side of the story. He was so used to hearing negativity, that’s all he could listen to….
Also, I have to say… I really DESPISED Alyssa and Erika’s mother. I never really understood her intentions throughout this novel. Was it to be a spiteful bitch or did she actually want what’s best for her children. My guess is on the spiteful bitch card.
I feel like this is the point in the novel where it took a turn for me. During the beginning chapters, I loved the connection between Alyssa and Logan. I loved how they were there for one another, through each other’s hardest points in life they found they could depend on one another. Their friendship was close as close can be. But then part two happened and that connection and the chemistry they once shared was gone. The characters also took a turn for me. The fire in Alyssa was extinguished and Logan was an asshole of sorts. I hated how he took his anger, in any situation, out on Alyssa. It was in those moments I truly saw him as his father’s son. I don’t know if that was the point of the story or not… I didn’t like it.
No matter how far I got into this novel, no matter how much Logan started to change and revert back to his old kind hearted self, no matter how much Alyssa started to stand up for herself. I couldn’t get that connection back that I once felt. I needed the old High & Lo. And I completely understand, five years apart changes people. Life situations change people. I just wanted the old High & Lo back, without the mess in between. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t feel the chemistry between them that I once felt. I needed that chemistry back. There was too much that happened between them to ever come back from. And then you pile all Kellan’s issues on Logan’s shoulders… and there was no going back for Logan’s character.
But when I felt there would be no significant redemption period… Brittainy Cherry brought an epilogue that healed my heart. And that is why I gave this a 3 ½ star rating. That Epilogue literally warmed and healed my heart in all the broken places. I got that glimpse of Logan I was craving. Logan finally got his redemption moment and I loved it so damn much.
Overall, The Fire Between High & Lo was a like for me. I loved the first part of Alyssa and Logan’s story, but the second part was the defining moment that took it from a love to a like. At this point, in the Elements series, The Air He Breathes and The Fire Between High & Lo are a tie. I loved situations in both novels and I disliked situations in both novels. I’m a bit fearful that this series will end up as being a like and not a love, for me. I’m starting The Silent Waters now, hopefully this novel will be a love for me!!! Fingers crossed!
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Sorry you had issues after all the stuff that went down. I’m glad she brought you back with the epilogue.