If you've read and enjoyed Best Kind of Broken (Finding Fate, #1) by Chelsea Fine,
Rock the Heart (Black Falcon, #1) by Michelle A. Valentine, and Beautiful Disaster
(Beautiful, #1) by Jamie McGuire then you then you will LOVE this book!!!!
Basic
Summary
Live young.
Live Hard. Love deep.
Charley Redford
was just an ordinary girl until Jake Caplin moved to her small town in Indiana
and convinced her she was extraordinary.
Almost form day one Jake pulled Charley into the deep and promised he
was right there with her. But when a
tragic incident darkened Jake’s life he waded out into the shallows and left
Charley behind.
Almost four
years later Charley thinks she’s moved on.
That is until she takes a study year abroad in Edinburgh and bumps into
none other than Jake Caplin at a party with his new girlfriend. The bad-boy-turned-good attempts to convince
Charley to forgive him, and as her best friend starts spending time with Jake’s, Charley calls a truce, only to find herself tumbling
back into a friendship with him.
As they grow
closer, the spark between them flares and begins playing havoc with their lives
an relationships. When jealousy and
longing rear their destructive heads, Charley and Jake struggle to come to
grips with what they mean to one another.
And even if
they work it out, there is no guarantee Charley will ever trust Jake to lead
her back into the deep…
First
Impressions
Wow
I really like this book! I love that the
chapters go back and forth from the past to the present leading up to some sort
of climax and I cannot freaking wait to find out what really went down between
Charley and Jake! I need to know, I don’t
think I’m going to be able to put this book down until I do!
I really like Charley a lot, she’s strong and confident
when she needs to be and I love her smart ass remarks so far. She’s not this stubborn whiny girl playing
the victim card to get attention; she’s just a girl with a broken heart and no
closure. I love her style and for once
the best friend in the book does not annoy me at all. Usually when it comes to strong female leads
in books I cannot stand their best friends, I don’t know why but they just
really get on my nerves and I feel like they sometimes get in the way but I
really enjoy Claudia and I enjoy her relationship with Charley.
What I
Loved
Wow
what a great story! The story of Jake
and Charley’s relationship was just so amazing and heart breaking at times I
could hardly stand it. When you finally
get to the point of how Jake left things my heart just shattered into a million
places. It totally brought me back to
those teenage days in a tumultuous relationship that of course ended
badly. I could relate to Charley on so
many levels and I instantly fell in love with her on the very first page.
I really loved
that not only did the chapters switch back and forth from the present to the
past, but that they coincided with each other too. When Charley and Jake were experiencing
Thanksgiving in Edinburgh the next chapter would be Thanksgiving four years
prior when Charley and Jake were in high school. It was so great to not only experience their
angst of being love but not together in the present and experience their love
for each other in the past. It made the
story more emotional and really put me on that emotional roller coaster I love
so much.
As much as I
wanted to hate Jake, I just couldn't bring myself to completely write him off
as an asshole. I knew he wasn't deep
down, but I was probably just as tortured as Charley was when he would be with
Melissa in front of her and I just wanted to scream at him. I have been in situations like that before
and it just tugs at your heart knowing just how Charley felt in that moment and
made me want to slap Jake across the face.
I absolutely
loved the building tension between Charley and Jake and I literally couldn't wait for it all to come to a head. The
emotions flying between the two of them was almost too much to bear at a
certain point that this book became like a drug to me because I just couldn't put it down. I love authors that know
how to really get you wound up, because it makes that release so much better.
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Not So
Much
Some
of the colloquialisms in the book didn't quite match the characters. I get that they are living in Scotland but
they are American and Charley wouldn't wear a baggy vest, she’s wear a baggy
t-shirt or blouse. I know she’s living
in another country for a year but she would still refer to it the American way
not the British way.
This is such a
great book and I truly loved this story, but I did feel at certain points it
got a little too cutsie and “I’ll love you forever, even though we’re sixteen”. I get that this is a love story and they
both found their soul mates at a young age and that happens a lot in reality
but at points I felt like it was laid on a little thick and I’m not a huge fan
of constant cute in a book. It
definitely wasn't all the time but I was like Jake is just too good to be true
at certain points and it made the story a little unrealistic because of
that. I love jaded characters and
darkness and I absolutely love when that darkness finally breaks and I loved
when it finally happened in this story, but sixteen year old Jake was just a
little too good to be true.
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| Fort William |
Overall
Such
a great story, I cannot freaking way for the next book; Out of the
Shallows! I really enjoyed Charley as
the female lead in this book, and I cannot wait to see what Jake and Charley’s
future will look like. I really like
that certain parts of the story weren't completely wrapped up leaving the story
very open ended for the next book, so you kind of know how next the book will
at least begin. I have been a big fan of
Samantha Young for some time now because of her On Dublin Street series. She knows how to create these amazing
characters that you feel like if they were real people they could totally be
your friend. Samantha Young is also very
good in creating sexual tension and letting that build and build until you are
ready to explode. There is a fine line
when it comes to building tension because some authors let it keep going on too
long and you get annoyed or don’t build it up enough so you’re not as
emotionally invested as you could have been but not in this book. I was reading last night and I didn't want to
put it down I just kept saying to myself just one more chapter and at point I
looked up and it was three o’clock in the morning.
I could totally
see this series kind of leading off into other stories maybe involving Beck and
Claudia, or maybe in Lowe at a certain point.
I also would love a prequel involving Andie and Rick and how they met
and fell in love. There is so much you
could do with all these characters because they are so well written that it
makes you more involved not just in the main character’s lives but the
supporting characters as well. I’m so
excited to read the second book in this series and see how things work for Jake
and Charley I need more them pronto!
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