This book had me hanging on every word. It's written so beautifully, I had so much trouble putting it down once I started reading. I was in love with Silas since the moment he arrived and I'm so glad that she was finally able to see how shitty Isaiah treated her.

There are so many quotes that I loved, but THIS ONE. THIS ONE changed how I'll read any other romance novel. This is my baseline for romance. Silas has changed my standards, irrevocably, forever.

"In my time," he continues, voice low, "sanctity was measured by suffering. Those saints that abstained from the pleasures of life, fasted to starvation, mortified their flesh, drank the blood of the wounded - it was only they who saw the eyes of God, it was only through their agony that they were touched by true divinity, enraptured by their own faith."
"I...I'm not a saint, Silas." Her eyes meet his in a gaze that's wrapped up in the promise for everything she's always denied herself. The promise of temptation for the taste of that forbidden fruit, a single bite all it takes for irreversible expulsion, for an eternal fall from grace.
"I never said you were."
The warmth of his breath is so close to her own, heat mingling, pulses flush close. "Then what are you saying?"
"That I am," he answers. "I found God. And I'm looking into her eyes."

HOLY SHIT.
Silas has impossibly raised my standards beyond belief.
(In actually reading this, book - I really liked how everything was focused on Sadie's grief. The narrative never shamed her for being destroyed by it (and her shitty boyfriend and so-called friend are very obviously in the wrong for just expecting her to GET OVER HER MOTHER'S SUICIDE???), and it's actually the healing power that helps Silas win. I really enjoyed that - that grief, feeling it, embracing it - can be powerful and healing, it's only when you hide it away and try to avoid it that it can become dangerous and hurtful.