This book, just like all the other Lonesome Point books, keep you on your toes from beginning to end. You can't help but love Cole and root for Layla. It's clear that they are both pushing against their feelings for one another and you find yourself wishing they could start from scratch, or jump in a time machine and zoom back to the day Cole comforted Layla. You'll be depressed just thinking about all the hurt and destruction Layla could have saved herself if she would have looked up into Cole's dreamy eyes and just KISSED THE MAN! But no... that would have been too easy, too perfect. And love isn't perfect, at least, not at first. In Layla's case, she's found love to be messy and brutal. She's learned her lesson, time after time, fist after fist, scar after scar from the hands of her soon to be ex-husband, Wayne. He is the only thing standing between Layla and her happily ever after.
My adrenaline was pumping just waiting for Wayne to pop up (which he did, frequently) and I empathized with Layla on a deep, primal level. I know first hand that getting out of an emotionally or physically abusive relationship is HARD, especially when the other person simply Wont. Let. Go. The fear is real. It grabs you by the throat and threatens to suck the life out of you, and when you're faced with a decision of 'him or me', the choice is easy. At lease, for some. But not for Layla. Even standing toe-to-toe with the man who made her life a living hell, even when the easiest solution is staring her in the face, pleading with her to take that one last step... she finds it hard to follow through.
But Layla is a fighter. She wasn't always that way, but she knew she'd have to change in order to reclaim everything she wanted and was refused in the life she led with Wayne. (Well, she didn't so much 'lead her life' so much as she was 'dragged through hell day after day.)
As with all of Jesse's books, I knew there was going to be a twist. A few chapters in, I was CERTAIN I knew what it was. Well... I was wrong. What Layla does will shock you, and it will take a few chapters for you to come to grips with the decision she made. But in the end you'll catch yourself saying, "You clever, clever girl. Kudos! Fist bumps all around!"
Now, in addition to the suspense element of this book, there was a great second-chance love story that I expected to simmer and build slowly through the pages. Luckily, that wasn't the case. It was a raw, in your face, throw-you-over-a-cliff kind of love that has you hanging on for dear life. Cole and Layla's love is real and sacred and all-consuming. Cole will do whatever it takes to protect Layla from the one man who is insistent on getting her back. And Layla will do everything in her power to keep Cole out of the line of fire and safe back in Lonesome Point where he and his family are already dealing with a horrible tragedy.
BUT! It's not all fear and passion and angst. As per usual in Lonesome Point romances, there is loads of fun to be had. The bro-love between Cole and his friends and brother will make you smile. The over-the-top ribbing from Layla's gal pals will have you thinking about your own girlfriends and laughing along as they find clever ways to joke about her new-found relationship with Mr. Wonderful. The sisterly love Cole has for Lily, his sister-in-law, will make you want to bear hug him around his wide shoulders. And the witty banter volleyed back and forth between Cole and Layla will have you swooning and fighting to contain your schoolgirl giggles.
This book is one terror-driven panic attack after another. One steamy, passionate embrace after another. One snort-giggle after another. And it all ends on a note of happiness, wrapped up perfectly in a shiny red bow, topped with rainbow sprinkles...
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