Sugar & Gold by Emma Scott

This is one of those books. 

You know the kind.

The kind that you start reading and can't put down, forsaking all commitments and family members in the process. The kind that keep you up at night, devouring each word, unable to sleep until you find out what happens next.

The kind of story about a love so consuming, so entrancing, that it transcends all explanation and, instead, is transmitted through the magic of beautiful writing.

Yes, this is that kind of book.

"Magic," I said, "There's magic in the world after all."

Nik has special abilities, those that have made his parents abandon him, and have led to a life of solitude. Fiona has a past that she wants to leave behind her, and a concrete plan for the future. 

Neither of them believed that love was something that fate had in store for them. 

But it did, and they found each other. And together, they create a world where they belong.

Emma Scott has an amazing ability to write about love without cheesiness, sex without vulgarity (but plenty of steam), suspense without cheap plot twists. Frankly, if Emma Scott were to write the descriptions on the back of cereal boxes, I would be as engrossed. She has captured magic in her keyboard.

Fiona

"I've loved you before," I said, "I'll love you after."

Sugar & Gold was published in June 2017, but it's my favorite book of 2018 so far. Maybe just my favorite ever.

It's the second book in the Dreamcatcher series (How to Save a Life was the first), and it has some characters that cross over. That said, it can be read as a stand alone. It contains some paranormal elements, but no mystical creatures or anything like that.

I loved this book. LOVED, I say. I am obsessed with Nik and Fiona and Emma Scott.

5 stars, but only because 5 is the most. I'd give it a million if I could.