Review: Find You in the Dark by A. Meredith Walters

Find You in the Dark
A. Meredith Walters
Series: Find You in the Dark #1
Publication date: October 10th 2012 by Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Rating: ★★★★☆

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Maggie Young had the market on normal. Normal friends, normal parents, normal grades...normal life. 

Until him.

Clayton Reed was running from his past and an army of personal demons that threatened to take him down. He never thought he had a chance at happiness.

Until her.

Maggie thought their love could overcome anything. Clay thought she was all he needed to fix his messy life. 

That together, they could face the world.

But the darkness is always waiting. 

Sometimes the greatest obstacle to true love is within yourself.

Maggie has lived a normal life, and she can't help but feel like she deserves something better than just the ol' boring plans she has set up for her life, like she's destined for something bigger and greater than that. Clay has grown up with anything but normal in his life, with parents who neglected him and didn't offer him the assistance he needed when dealing with his illness.

Clay is interesting and gets to Maggie in a way no one has ever done before, and she's determined to make a place for herself in his life. Whether as a friend or something more, she doesn't really know yet. But as they begin to get closer and closer to each other Maggie starts worrying about Clay's mood swings, not really knowing or understanding what's happening until he tells her about his illness.

I had no idea what I was in for when I started reading Find You in the Dark. I didn't know the book dealt with mental illness, so it was kind of a really big surprise for me when I found out Clay suffered from bipolar disorder. One that I really enjoyed once I got to know Maggie and Clay's story.

In my opinion, the ending was perfectly written. I don't think I would have accepted for the story to go any other way than it did, especially with how Clay is described along the book.

I still have to read the sequel and see what happens, but I can't wait to read about Clay and Maggie after everything they've been through together and seeing if they can make things work between them.

It's a heavy and dark story that pulls you in and breaks your heart, only to give you a shimmer of hope again. It shows you that loves is not capable of fixing everything, that one must face his demons before fully giving himself to another, and that, sometimes, admitting to yourself that you need help requires more personal strength than you ever thought possible.