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One With You by Sylvia Day

One With You by Sylvia Day
4/5

This post contains mild spoilers.

I have finally completed Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series, which ended with One With You. It took years. I think when I first got my hands on them it was right in the middle of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon and only the first two or three books were out. So, this is quite literally years in the making. One With You has been out for quite a while but I hadn’t picked it up off of my book shelf. It was a mix of having other stuff to read and having no interest in continuing Gideon and Eva’s story.
Anyways. I finally decided to commit to finishing the series but it had been so long since I’d read the other ones that I had to go read a synopsis of the novels and then it all just came rushing back. I remembered the books in detail. As far as conclusions go, it was pretty satisfying. Eva and Gideon had made massive strides with their mental health and really bloomed as a couple. I still find it absurd that all of this ridiculous over the top mess happened in a couple of months, but I did appreciate that Day didn’t end the series with an unplanned but joyously received pregnancy, as Fifty Shades did, as so many romance novels do.
Obviously, there is a ton of overlap between the two series. Both set in New York with men who are at the top of their industries, who do charity work for abused children because it reflects on their own child hood. In the case of Crossfire though, Eva is also an abuse survivor, as is her best friend and live-in roommate Cary. Both Gideon and Christian are obsessively, almost grossly overprotective of Eva and Anna – a trait I did not find endearing in either series. I do have to say I enjoyed the end of Crossfire much better than I did Fifty Shades. The kidnapping and attack on Ana felt a bit absurd, as was how easily she escaped Christian’s security team. Eva and Gideon’s ending was bittersweet but lovely, and it was far more realistic. Everything was tied together well and I found it very touching. It’s probably my favourite book of the series. Day found a way to still include the love scenes but they didn’t make up the bulk of the book as they had in previous books which I just found repetitive and annoying after a while. I really, really appreciated the strides that Eva and Gideon took with their mental health, and their dependence on as a way to smooth out  their fights was not evident in this book like it was for the last one.
The weird thing I found was that this book flipped between Gideon and Evas viewpoint. I found I liked it more than I thought I would. It was really interesting to see the dichotomy between the two personalities and I liked being able to see more of Gideon’s motivations.

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