Review: Second chances....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
You know what I love about this Author?  I love how she painstakingly lays a solid plot foundation so perfectly balanced with the right amount of narration and witty dialogue.  I love how she details the main characters to such a delicate degree that I cannot help but feel like I actually know these two people.  They come to life quickly!  The connection is just that strong.  This Author made me feel Emma and Jackson's happiness and I laughed with them...I felt their pain and anger, and I bawled buckets.  This Author forms such a strong, intricate connection to the characters and the emotions they share that...I found myself holding my breath or biting my nails knowing the dam was going to break.  I was on the edge of my seat, on pins and needles waiting for the dam to bust wide open and when it finally does...it only sucked me in deeper.  It's frikkin' awesome how this Author does that.It takes guts to break your engagement to the guy you've gone with for 10 years.  It takes guts to break off your wedding plans just weeks before the big day knowing you're going to disappoint everyone and crush your fiance.  Emma Mills has guts.  She's strong, smart, funny, beautiful, and in many ways naive...but she knows that there's more to life than what has been mapped out before her in a small town in Maryland.  She decides to take a different road.  It takes a lot of guts to stand up to the backlash of her actions.Emma moves to NYC, get's a job, makes friends and lives in a beautiful false world void of the harsh realities of what life can deal you.  And when things eventually come crashing down around her, she get's a vicious wake-up call.  Her eyes are opened to how quickly you can lose everything.  To how fragile and precarious life can be.Jackson Reynard is one hawt, yummy piece of cheese and he's got it bad for Emma.  He loves her innocense and upbeat attitude.  She's a fresh breath of sweet air.  Nobody else exists for him, but her.  First and foremost, Jackson is a gentle, determined man who knows what he wants in life and goes for it.  He's a good and kind person.This story hooks your attention from the first few lines of the first chapter and ever so slowly, reels you in.  Emma and Jackson were just so darned cute (to me).  Falling in love, giggling together over inane topics, going on pic-nics and long walks, and doing absolutely nothing and enjoying it.  I couldn't help but love this couple and all they found in each other.This romance is all about those ugly emotions that sometimes rise up in any growing relationship.  Insecurities, vulnerabilities and jealousies, and the false assumptions they can cause us to conclude.  Emotions that need to be dealt with and exorcised.  At times reminiscent ofLove Unscripted, but not entirely.  This story is about the many phases and changes that we fragile humans go through and the life experiences that cause those altering changes.  It's about growing up and accepting those human frailties that make us who and what we are...who've we become.  It's about "dealing"..... and fighting for the one you love.Brava and Encore!