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Blog Tour: Marina's Review of Bedrock by Britney King

When Addison Greyer, a happily married mother of three, decides to re-enter the workforce, she never once considers that taking a job might unravel everything she thinks to be true about her life—that it would cause her to look deep within and confront fears she didn’t know existed. She couldn’t have foreseen how a chance meeting or a single day can change the course of an entire lifetime.

Like many women, Addison is defined in terms of marriage and motherhood, until she suddenly finds her life turned upside down by her husband’s decision to take a job thousands of miles away. When her tough-as-nails boss offers her an opportunity she can’t refuse, Addie is forced to make difficult choices. Those choices take her further and further out of the carefully crafted fairytale life she has created and lead her into an unknown world where things are anything but black and white: a world where she learns that desire is not only dangerous but deadly. In this world, all bets are off as she is forced to finally confront her past. As her past and present collide, she has to make decisions that for most are unthinkable, decisions that can tear her family apart, and perhaps even have fatal consequences.

Bedrock is a love story designed to showcase how the choices we make ultimately shape our lives. It serves as a reminder that in the end what defines us is not the big events, the monumental occasions. It’s the tiny, seemingly inconsequential moments in between. It’s proof that time passes and we cannot, no matter how hard we try, get it back. Bedrock is a story of love and grief that pretty much sums up the context of the human experience.

Publisher: Hot Banana Press

Release Date: May 1st 2013

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*NO Spoilers!

Bedrock is a book about a woman and the choices she makes in her life. This is the story of Addison.

Addison was a child depraved from loving touch since she lost her parents at a very young age and she realizes that love doesn't come cheap. As we follow her footsteps we see her as a college student foul in love and dreams meeting the man of her dreams, we see her as young mother way over her head with the problems of childbearing and upbringing, we see her as a young woman struggling to make something of her life except being the trophy wife her husband intended her to be.

I felt an instant connection with Addison, especially since motherhood wasn’t what I expected either. Being a parent is difficult most of the times and it gets a turn for the worst when you are a stay-at-home parent. Suddenly what defines you as a person is you child, well Addison didn’t like that (neither do I to be honest).

“Time seemed inconsequential. The days dragged on, bled from on to another, all seeming exactly the same. Minutes gave way to hours and the hours into days then months. Addie wondered what she did to deserve this. She wondered why she wasn’t good enough and how she could fail at something that was supposed to be innate. Who failed at motherhood, anyway?”

As Addison struggles to find the woman in her she discovers many things hidden, she finds power, she finds peace in her choices, and she discovers the truth about her life and everyone around her.

In this journey our heroine is not alone although her husband remains on the sidelines Addison meets people who see in her what she failed to see in herself all her life; William gives her another meaning in love and Sondra gives her.....well, she gives her ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES…..

In the beginning of this book we meet a woman trying to find her footing and her purpose in life and by the end we say goodbye to a strong, confident one.