Review: Another great book by Andrea Randall
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2013
***Spoilers to Ten Days and Reckless Abandon below. Do not read this review if you have not read book 1 and 2 in this series.***I love Andrea Randall and her November Blue Series. I read the first two and really fell in love with her writing style and characters.Sweet Forty Two is about Regan who we met in book two Reckless Abandon. He is a soulful violin player who Bo and Ember befriend. He also was the gorgeous boyfriend to Bo’s sister Rae before she was tragically killed. He is just truly an amazing man with an even more amazing outlook on life and more importantly, love.We also follow Georgia, a no nonsense woman who has walls built around walls around her heart and soul. We meet Georgia when CJ visits his cousin Regan and Bo and Ember in San Diego where they moved to record music with Ember’s parents and music group. CJ drags them all to the bar where Georgia works and the story begins.Regan and Georgia don’t really like each other at first but after Regan moves in across the hall from her a friendship is born. They both battle with their own demons. As a reader you really felt like you were right there with them through it all. I cried along with Regan as he had to learn to live with Rae and the regret of never telling her he loved her. I feared along with Georgia as she tried to navigate through her life and all the secrets she kept. I wanted and needed her to let them flow out of her knowing she would be safe with Regan.“Some secrets were so deep I could hardly feel their roots in my veins when I was in mixed company. That’s a lie. They were always there. The secrets. Snacking on my soul.”This book really dug deep into living and loving. Andrea Randall had some amazing quotes in this book that should really be hanging on everyone’s walls reminding us how it should be.“Life is an endless ocean of tears, happy and sad, and it’s our job to smile in their wake.”“Peace is always there at the center of our souls, and I allowed anger, hurt, and hate to shove it in a long forgotten closet.”I loved the journey of this book. I loved how the cover and the title of the book made perfect sense by the end of the story. I loved Regan and Georgia. I also loved that we got to see more of Bo and Ember and how their love is still strong.I hope that Andrea Randall does a book for CJ next. She showed us his character more here as well. He would be super fun to read and then we would get more of the cast!**review can be found on mean girls luv books**