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.
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Nicola's Thoughts
Cloud Walking is a short novella from the
Find You in the Dark series by A. Meredith Walters. It is based along the same timeframe as the
first book in the series, however it concentrates on the relationship between
Rachel and Daniel rather than Maggie and Clay.
Rachel, Daniel and Maggie have been best
friends since birth and are all incredibly close until everything starts to
change for the three of them. Maggie develops
an attraction to Clay, and their subsequent relationship puts strain on her
friendship with Rachel and Daniel. Meanwhile,
Rachel and Daniel’s increasing feelings for each other also threaten to ruin
their friendship.
Initially Maggie is the only one who knows
about Rachel’s feelings for Daniel, feelings she has harboured since they were
children. Daniel on the other hand is
completely oblivious to her feelings and has an on-again/off-again relationship
with Kylie, which Rachel finds increasingly difficult to deal with.
“They
always made up. And I was always left
with feeling as though my heart were being ripped out of my chest so he could
do a tap dance on it.”
Rachel
Gradually, Daniel realises that his
feelings for Rachel have changed and he starts to view her differently. This scares him because as much as he wants
Rachel, he doesn’t want to destroy the friendship that they have.
“Because
Rachel Bradfield was my best friend. And
she deserved a hell of a lot more than an asshole like me. She deserved a guy who could be her prince
charming. Not a douchbag who didn’t know
his ass from his elbow.”
Daniel
However, as tension continues to rise
between them their friendship starts to suffer anyway and the only thing they
seem to unite on is their concern for Maggie and her destructive relationship
with Clay. It seems to be the only thing
they see eye to eye on until they finally confront their feelings and decide
the direction their relationship needs to take.
This is a pretty fast paced book and it
revisits many of the scenes from Find You in the Dark. It can’t be read as a standalone as I don’t
think it would make much sense without knowing the main story of Maggie and
Clay, but it does help you develop more of an understanding around Rachel and
Daniel, particularly their home lives and their mutual resentment towards their
respective mothers.
“But
there was that part of me that was resentful all the same. It wasn’t my fault that my mom had made poor
decisions when it came to the men she let in her life. But here we were, years later and I was
taking care of her responsibilities.”
Rachel
“And
I thought he has come to sort of hate his mother as well. Not that I blamed him. Sure, my mom was negligent, but it was
because she was trying to provide us with a life. Daniel’s mom was negligent because she just
didn’t give a crap. She was entirely
wrapped up on her life with her sugar daddy. And poor Danny was pushed out into the
proverbial cold.”
Rachel
“Maggie’s
mom was the most amazing parent I knew.
She was warm, supportive and loving.
Everything that Daniel and I lacked in our own maternal relationships.”
Rachel
I like that we get to learn more about them
in this book as they are regular characters in Find You in the Dark, but I
didn’t feel that we got to know enough about them. I also love that you get the alternating
points of view from Rachel and Daniel, and find out more about what leads up to
certain scenes in the first book or what is happening in the background with
them while Find You in the Dark is focused on Maggie and Clay.
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Review by Nicola
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