Review: Point of Origin by Rebecca Yarros (Legacy #0.5)

Never happened? The hell with that. I could reenact every single second if I needed to jog her memory. Every time I took her mouth, from when she’d been sixteen, and I’d been too possessive to let anyone else have her first kiss, to the night I spent tangled in her arms, worshiping her until the sun came up and I had to go. Every moment was branded on my soul like a tattoo, and she wanted to act like it never happened? 

Fuck. That.

He left her without saying goodbye six years ago and when firefighter Sebastian Vargas returns to their hometown of Legacy, Emerson Kendrick has no warning whatsoever. There is no warm homecoming for Bash, not after the way he left the only girl he ever loved behind to pursue a firefighting career in California. Now, he plans to bring back a group of elite hotshots, similar to the one their fathers belonged to and were part of when they died saving the town ten years prior. Bash has no plans of staying for long, but leaving Emerson behind a second time may end up breaking them both beyond the point of no return.

Rebecca Yarros can do no wrong and with the Legacy series starter, in the form of the Point of Origin novella, not only do readers get a complete and threshed-out story with main characters we become so totally invested in from the get-go, we also have other characters that spark our interest, to the point that we'll be looking for them with each new book in this promising series. Emerson and Bash have officially knocked everyone else down a slot on my list of favorite fictional couples and are currently sitting pretty at the top spot. These two make you want to fall in love all over again because they make rekindling worth it.

This drew out strong emotions from me, and for something so short to do that is a feat in and of itself. It wasn't just a second chance love story between Emerson and Bash; it was the story of a town called Legacy and the painful history that still reverberates around it after a fire took the lives of almost every single member of the town's hotshots crew. My heart broke for both Emerson and Bash's life stories and the love story they shared, but with the hope that second chances bring, my heart mended alongside theirs. By the end of this mini masterpiece, I actually stood up and applauded. It was simply that good. Five-plus stars. ♥ 

Date Read: 09 November 2015 (as part of the Possess anthology) 

Date Re-Read: 06 March 2016 (as an individual release)

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