Review: Honest review given
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
Oh my good god! This book is so sad! So full of emotion, I’m feeling kind of overwhelmed.Sadie Parker is so lost and feels so alone, broken, devastated and ruined by grief that she pushes everyone in her life further and further away when all they want to do is help her and show her that she’s loved.It’s been two years since that dreaded night and she feels the pain like it was just yesterday. Jake Parker was the love of her life and now he’s gone, at only 24 years old Sadie Parker is a widow and her life has changed forever. Sadie is happy to wallow in self pity and grief but her family aren’t happy to leave her to come to terms with things in her own time, so they basically force her to go meet the recipients of her husband’s organs, its the last thing Sadie wants to do but she does it just to get them off her back.Enter Zander McBride, he doesn’t think he deserves his second chance at life so he keeps holed up at his beach house and stays away from the world. Sadie meets him and he evokes feelings in her she thought died with Jake, this confuses Sadie and makes her feel more guilty than before. Zander McBride is a complication, a hot, sweet, kind, loveable man, but still a complication. She can’t let go of the anger and hurt she feels for living when the love of her life is dead and it causes problems for the potential relationship that could be had with Zander.J.L. Mac’s writing style is fantastic and has you pulled in for the word go. The characters and their backgrounds are well thought out and executed they all fit so perfectly together, even the supporting and passing characters in this book had something that made you want to know more about them. This book is written so deeply and emotionally that you can’t help but get invested with the characters, I spent at least 50% of the book bawling my eyes out at the sheer sadness of this story, Sadie Parker is consumed with grief and survivors guilt and she can’t seem to shake it. The way the author has written this poor woman’s thoughts and feelings really tugs at the heart strings, she’s done it so well I felt like I was there that Sadie Parker’s loss was mine too and it broke my heart. Its devastating and pretty much soul destroying at how much you feel for this poor girl. What’s more is its not only written from Sadie’s point of view its written from Zander’s too and it shows the struggle both parties go through having lost someone and gained something they didn’t feel they deserved.Although this journey for the most part is a sad one that's come from grief, I found myself eager to read on to see if Sadie Parker and Zander McBride would get their chance at a happily ever after part two. I was hoping and praying the whole way through that she realised that being happy again wasn’t a bad thing, its actually what her husband would have wanted for her and that she was allowed to live on and keep his memory alive in her heart.For me this was an emotionally gripping story of loss and finding love again where you least expect to and learning to let that love in because it’s what will help you to heal.5 HUGE Stars!!