” A heart wrenching story that grabs and pulls at your heart strings, and deals with misplaced blame, guilt and discovery of life’s journey”
Reading this I prepared myself for an emotional roller coaster. I have read Take This Regret, which was one of those stories you say to yourself this is why I love reading romance books. This author writes very detailed and complicated characters that make you feel like you are with them on their journey; this book does the same.
This is about Aleena Moore, who is content with her life. She has goals and dreams and an easy smile. She also has a secret she holds locked inside. Jared Holt believes he doesn’t deserve to love or be loved. He destroys everything he touches. Haunted by the mistake that shattered his life, he’s fled from the memory of that pain.
The stories begins in the present with Aleena – the heroine – who is with her best friend, and you get the idea based on conversation that she is waiting for something or someone. Aleena is described as beautiful yet she has no idea to herself since something in her past that made her feel otherwise. The plot starts to build; you get bits and pieces of what tragic thing happened to her and her brother as the story goes along. Jared – the hero – is damaged and very much so at introduction. You still don’t know what happened, you just know that Jared, Aleena and Aleena’s brother Christopher were involved.
I kept wondering while reading if there was going to be a love triangle. Is there going to be some traumatic boom of a plot twist? So I was on edge the whole time reading. I did read this in one setting due to that fact it kept my interest in wanting to find out what had happened that changed their lives. I mean, Aleena is sweet and smart, and I do like that in a heroine, and Jared was just so tragic and self-deprecating the whole time. At times it did brother me a little because he was just so negative about himself; I was like, enough already.
When the plot twist did come to light I reacted like wow, OK, I understand now, and I happily wanted to finish the rest of the book. I really wanted to see a happy ending and was gritting my teeth while reading. But there was no major cliff hanger, rather there is more to the story and you don’t know how it ends. I understand why now, because there is a sequel that I am sure will tell that tale. I would give this book a solid 4 stars. It does have the swoony scenes and mature adult content, so be prepared.
* The Closer to You Series *
Come To Me Quietly
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