Wait by A.L. Jackson Review
5 Smooches
Synopsis
She is his strength and he is her weakness. And this time he won’t let her go.
Edie Evans is gorgeous.
Sexy.
Kind.
She’s also the definition of off-limits.
But that didn’t stop me from sneaking into her room to comfort her at night.
But guys like me? We destroy everything, so it should have been no surprise when I destroyed us, too.
The night I sent her running, I thought I’d never see her again.
Until I saw her standing like a vision in the crowd.
Austin Stone is dangerous.
Alluring.
Tempting.
He broke my heart and I refused to give him the chance to do it again.
It’s been years since I’ve seen him, and now I can’t do anything but stare at the gorgeous, tattooed man playing onstage. I should run. I know I should. But like a fool, I run straight back to him.
Our desire is overpowering.
Our need unrelenting.
She is my hope.
He is my weakness.
We should have known a passion this intense would burn us right into the ground.
Review
‘I trusted this broken boy. So I whispered my secret. Offered it to him. To hold it. Protect it. Until the day he crushed it in his own hands.’
This was my very first book by A.L. Jackson (I know, I know I completely read this book out of order but trust me this can completely be read as a standalone.) I do not usually read a lot of books in a series, especially one I have been wanting to read, out of order but I simply did not have the time to read the others before this one but I will tell you that after encountering the phenomenal writing of A.L. Jackson I completely intend to go back and catch up on all the other stand alones in the series.
‘The girl was my own perfect torment.’
Austin and Edie’s story is that of time, pain and devastation. Both were broken beyond belief when they met four years prior and both found solace in each other. They became best friends, only able to fight off their demons when together. But then a massive betrayal drove them apart and now four years later they are thrust back into each other lives. Unable to deny the pull they have other each other or the since of calm neither has truly felt in the four years apart that only shows its face when in the arms of the other. Now they must learn how to trust and love each other again, but how can you move on from the past when the past is determined to hunt you down and drag it all back out.
‘It was unavoidable. Inevitable. Because Edie and me? We were always gonna be.’
My little black heart gets off on angst and drama and being broken and put back together again and again. Sometimes I shy away from books I know will break me simply because when I hurt I hurt deeply. Wait hit me at just the moment that I needed the ache. The pain hurt hard but the rise up from the burn healed me completely. Austin and Edie’s story is not easy but it completely fulfilling and beautiful. A.L. Jackson is a master with words. Her phrasing is flowery but not cheesy. Poetic but not overkill. I held on to each word and was anxious to devour the next. Whether you are reading this in the series (which now I am dying to read) or as a standalone like me I promise this is a book you will not regret starting.
~miranda
