Review: Wild, crazy, emotional and hot, with the right amount of M.Leighton Awesome dust sprinkled on it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
“Rusty, I think with an internal sigh as I take a bite of toast. The wild card in my future”For me this was a very special book, it tells the story of characters I have loved for what seems like forever. The Wild Ones (the first in this series) was the very first book I had the pleasure of reading from Ms Leighton and not once have I looked back. The Wild Ones was also my very first signed book (well excluding Roald Dahl back when I was like 5), which I won on a Twitter Chat with her well over a year ago. It sparked my... let’s call a spade a spade… obsession with Ms Leighton’s amazing stories. Not the bad find you, kidnap you, and make you write stories for me and me alone under threat of bodily harm. No the good friendly kind of obsession, I SWEAR!Every one of her books has taken pride of place on my bookshelf and more importantly in my heart. She writes with such love and emotion that I find it damn near impossible to put one of her books down when I'm reading them, regardless of what time it is or whether I have to work the next day or not! To add to the great and talented author that she is, she’s one of the nicest people I have had the pleasure to meet! So you see, this series for me means a lot.Now enough of my rambling… Tell me about the Wild Child I hear you plead! Wild Child takes place with just a week to go until Trick and Cami’s wedding. And what a lead up it is! With it being a novella, I was afraid it would be rushed or lack development as some novellas do. But this is MICHELLE LEIGHTON we are talking about and damned if she was going to let us down like that! The storyline is one of friendship, stubbornness (yes, I'm looking at you both Jenna and Rusty!), sorrow, hope and love… oh and not forgetting really hot steamy scenes that will leave you gasping and looking for the next place to skinny-dip and all I will say is mechanical bucking bull….Jenna is a free spirit, we knew that from the very first time we met her and that doesn’t change. Rusty is more of a thinker than say-er, none the less he has a wild side to him too and the generally gets brought out in him when Jenna is about. Rusty and Jenna are both so perfect for each other and yet both have their own insecurities around relationships, and subconsciously have preconceived notions of what the other will do in the future; namely leave. Will they be able to overcome these issues and have their dream come true? To find out you’ll have to read the book!!I loved getting to see Cami and Trick in this book also. As you may know, I had a sweet spot for Trick and well, that’s not changing any time soon. He is just so downright perfect! Rusty you ain’t too bad yourself! (just in case he’s reading this) Rusty does bring a lot to the table, he’s got a lot more going on than he leads people to think, so watch out for him! He’ll slowly become your new favourite BBF.The characters and their interactions are written so well that it is hard not to get swept up in the story and become part of it; feel as they do, love as they do and hurt as they do. I can honestly say that I felt the pain of the characters as if it was my own, such it the talented writing of Ms Leighton.I haven’t read a M.Leighton book yet that didn’t have my eyes welling a little and Wild Child follows suit. I was a blubbering mess at three distinct scenes in the book. Even thinking of them I have to quash the urge to shed a tear. There is not just the light hearted, fun loving, side to this book but also a seriousness that will stop you in your tracks and make you thankful for and appreciate what and whom you have in your life. At least for me it had this affect.For a novella, Ms Leighton has mastered it. She has written it such that you get the complete story, beginning, middle and end without missing a beat. I’m looking forward to the next in the series, Some Like It Hot, to see what Jake, Jenna’s brother has in store for us!"I've loved you from the moment I met you, Jenna. And I'll love you long after I'm gone from this world."I reach up and wind my arms around his neck, giving him a mischievous wink. "What took you so long?"He grins down at me. "Traffic was hell."