Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore Release Review

I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.

I met Greyson Ratcliffe at sixteen. He was the hot new guy sitting on my jetty, and aspiring artist just passing through. He was my first kiss and my first love. I wanted forever with him. I didn’t even get a year. Five years later, I am a budding writer who scripts stories of love and struggle, the good the bad and the ups and the downs. He is a star on the rise, his wicked talent and crazy good looks have his face plastered on countless magazines. We move in two different worlds and still our paths cross again. We are older and wiser and as crazy about each other as we had been as teenagers. My medium is words, and my imagination is limitless, but not even I could have written the incredible journey we traveled to our happily-ever-after. Life isn’t like fiction and the greatest love stories don’t follow a script.

First of all I have to say that this book deserves more than five stars. If you read no other love story this year, you have to read Our Unscripted Story. Second, I have never read a book that I can think of off the top of my head that spans as many years in peoples lives as this one does. I loved that we see Greyson and Alexis from when she was sixteen till they were in their forties. The prologue is going to rip your heart out but it sets the stage for an amazingly captivating and beautiful story. Alexis is sixteen and living with foster parents who could care less if she is there or not. They are in it for the money. From the time Alexis came to live with them she has written in a journal. In fact this is the only thing the woman she lives with did for her that was decent as far as I am concerned. Alexis knows that she once had a mom and dad but she doesn’t know what happened or why they gave her up. In her journal you begin to see the imagination that Alexis has. This imagination has gained her some odd looks from people and pretty much made her a loner. However one fateful day before going to the cafe to work, Alexis decides to go to her favorite place in her town. The jetty. However there is a stranger there that she is so drawn to she can feel it in her bones, heck all the way to her soul. However she didn’t have the nerve to talk to him and he is probably just a tourist in the town and will be gone before she can find out who he is. Imagine her surprise when she starts her new school year and hears the gossip and whispers about the new guy. She feels him before she ever sees him and knows without a doubt this is the boy for her jetty. Now she just needs to work up the nerve to talk to him.

Greyson is from Ireland and use to live in a castle. He lost his parents but his grandfather has brought him to the United States to fulfill his life purpose of becoming a famous artist. It was so important to his parents that he live out his dream and thank God for his grandfather and his determination to see his grandsons dreams come true. Everywhere Greyson goes he carries a spiral bound book that he draws in. This is what he is doing the day he is sitting on the jetty when he gets this sensation like no other he has ever felt. When he looks up he sees the most beautiful girl he has ever seen in his life one the ugliest bike in the world. All he gets is a wave from her and he doesn’t even know he name or anything about her until he starts school at his new school and sees Alexis across the hall. However he is not about to approach her and really he isn’t sure nor is she that either will remember the other. Fast forward and they so know that each was the one on that fateful day and a friendship forms that quickly turns to romance. But, they both have different dreams and in May Greyson is going off to San Francisco where his agent will be and he can start living his dream of becoming a famous artist. Alexis will have to stay and graduate and then her dream is to go to New York. The city calls to her soul and she feels like she needs to be there.

I have probably told you to much but I won’t say anything else about the plot of the story. Just know that your not going to wonder what happens. You are going to live every single moment with Greyson and Alexis. Your going to fall so in love with the family that Alexis has created fro herself. I am kind of hoping that the twins in the book get a story. I want them to fall in love and have their mind blown. They seem like such amazing people. Your going to love Alexis best friend and her husband and children too. And the good thing is you get to watch these children grow up before your very eyes. I love that the girl with no family found one of her own. They are all such great people who also accept Greyson into their fold. No joke these are people that you want to have to your house on the weekend for a barbecue. I can not say enough about this book. I could go on and on about it. Just get Our Unscripted Story. You do not want to miss this book that will fill you with so much love, joy and heartache, right along with the mystery of a diamond and Alexis’s father. This is the book of the year for me so far this year. I have a felling I am not the only one who is going to fell this way. L.A. Fiore has written the most amazingly beautiful book and I can tell that she really cares about all of these character’s and is so invested in them. Her words flow and you can see this book playing out in your heard just like you would if you were at the movies watching it for the first time. Trust me this one time and please, whatever you do, do not miss this one.