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Product details Series The Bar Harbor Series (Book 1) Paperback 302 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (June 1, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 1533095612

Pulled Beneath The Bar Harbor Series Volume 1 Marni Mann 9781533095619 Books Reviews

• It's strange sometimes how books come to you. I have 300+ Unread books on my kindle, but this one called to me. I was thumbing through FB when I saw this gorgeous yellow lab on a blogger site. It was Bella, one of the characters of this book! 
  
  Drew moved home after graduating from college trying to figure out what's next. What's next is a shocker, the brutal murder of her parents. Shortly after their death and still in the throws of profound grief, she learns she has inherited a family home in Maine. This home belonged to her grandparents and was where her mother grew up. Drew had heard stories of the small town in Maine her whole life, but she had been told her grandparents died when her mother was a child. As the truths that Drew believed about her life unravel, she slowly has to adjust and find a new peace. A integral part of her peace is a man named Saint aka Justin who sees her pain, relates to it and is the only one who can help her through it all...if she will let him! Bella, the lab, is by her side for the long haul as well! 
  
  This book is truly breathtaking and I think anyone can relate to it. After tragedy, we find ways to make peace of the chaos. For Drew it is the water and swimming, for others it may be running, meditation, or even reading.
  
  This book reads as a standalone. There will be a second book about Rae. She is a fascinating character in this book and I can't wait to learn more! 
• It is so easy for an author to open up a book and tear it apart break down every sentence, every word, make the distinction of style and tone in her mind and internally note how she would write said book differently.
  
  Pulled beneath the waves, into the hole I had climbed into. It was a dark, damaging place.
  
  There is something important to be said about the same author experiencing this unintentional shift into a reader as the book's gorgeously written words push her into that hole. It's hard sometimes, once you've written books and stories and articles, once you've embraced your own authorship, to cut that instinct away and just really enjoy a story as a reader. But I never, ever have that problem with Mann's books.
  
  Marni Mann makes it easy to be a reader.
  
  It smelled just like him unpredictable and rough.
  
  I love this novel. I love that it's NA and isn't led exclusively by sex. I love Drew's innocence. I have a very hard time relating to people, to characters, who have never struggled. Who have lived perfect lives. And Drew has, to a point, until nothing is perfect anymore, and it seems it never will be again. I'm used to that strong, independent female character who has struggled all her life and knows how to survive. But there is a certain strength in someone who doesn't know that, who hasn't been embedded with that survival skill, is branded by tragedy and rises above anyway. It's very rare that I come in contact with a character in this genre who is just, sort of perfect in her own way, in that every decision she makes is a good one, or at least one with good intentions. I guess that's another thing I love about Mann's novels. She writes about good people with bad cards. There is nothing more that I can relate to in this life.
  
  "Love."
  "Love," I echoed before hanging up. With Gianna, the you had never been needed.
  The word itself had always been enough.
  
  I love Gianna, too. She is essentially me; a redheaded spitfire of a friend who knows nothing more than she knows loyalty and I think she was the perfect balance for Drew and everything that was going on with her. I love Saint, I love Maine through Mann's eyes.
  
  I love Pulled Beneath. I am irrevocably in love with this novel.
  
  It's Mann's best work yet.
• When Drew Stevens parents are brutally murdered in their own home she is devastated. Blaming herself for not being there with them her life slowly starts to spiral out of control. She becomes obsessed with swimming. It is her only escape from her grief and pain.
  
  Several months later she receives yet another shock. While she was raised believing that she had no living family she is distraught to discover it was a lie. She has inherited the family home in Bar Harbor, Maine from the grandmother she never knew existed. Confused and angry about what she has discovered she goes to Bar Harbor with the intent of quickly settling her grandmother's estate and selling the home she has no interest in.
  
  What she gets is handsome Justin Drake (aka Saint). While everyone she meets in Bar Harbor warns her to stay away from him she just can't seem to do it. In his eyes she recognizes someone who is familiar with pain as well and that connection calls to her.
  
  I really enjoyed this book. There was such sadness where Drew is concerned. She was so lost at the beginning of the book. It was nice seeing her come out of the self imposed cage she built around herself. Saint was a mystery for a bit of the book. He was always so protective of Drew but also kept pushing her away. The rumors surrounding him weren't good and it was hard to decide if he was actually a good guy or not. There seemed to be an abundance of that with some of the secondary characters. As in life not everything is as it seems.