Toxic by Rachel Van Dyken

Rating: ★★★★★ 

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Young adult, Romance

Synopsis: Gabe Hyde is on borrowed time. He's been hiding his identity for over four years-hidden from the world that used to adore him--obsess over him--driven to the edge of insanity by one poor choice.
But that one choice, altered the course of his life forever.
Pretending isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when pretending means hiding your real self from the people that care about you the most. But if anyone ever discovered the truth it wouldn't just be his life at risk--but hers.

Saylor doesn't hate men.
Just Gabe.
Only Gabe.
He's a reckless, happy-go-lucky, silver spoon fed pain in her ass. Everything about him makes her more and more confused. Unfortunately they both donate time at the same Group Home. If she wasn't afraid of flunking, she'd be long gone. She hates that she's attracted to him almost as much as he hates that he's attracted to her--and she can tell, especially since their first encounter ended up making her knees so weak she couldn't form coherent sentences for weeks afterwards. But the closer she gets to him, the more confused she becomes. He isn't who he says he is, and he's hiding something big.

What happen when two worlds collide? Two worlds that never should have met in the first place? Some secrets are too big to be hidden forever--the only question? Will his destroy everyone he loves? Or finally bring about the redemption he's been craving for the past four years?

Review:

Gabe    has many secrets, most of them he does not want to share. Not even to his best friends. Gabe is not entirely forthcoming about himself let alone about his past that he has tried to keep hidden from everyone around him including the press. He created a new life and never looked back and he never thought that things would come back to haunt him.

Saylor is sweet and expected to be the best in her family, which is why she always has to be perfect; she cannot be anything less, all the pressure is on her when it comes to her family.

This book was amazing. Hands down the best book so far out of the three.  It made me cry so much during this book, there were so many sad parts but so many good parts as well. There was many things that Gabe had to get over to overcome his fears about leaving the past behind.

           

          Saylor helped him with that and if it was not for Saylor; Gabe would have stayed Gabe and he would not have been Ashton and Gabe.

             

         When Gabe becomes Ashton again he owns up to everything he hid about his past life and the things that he did not want people to find out about came out in the open because he was threatened by someone that had no problem hurting the people around him.

        Over all this series is worth the read and I love how Wes and Kiersten still remain in the books and are still prominent second characters in the book.