kelli513's review
5.0
Book Review of Love Me Like You Mean It
Author Jamie Russell
FIVE STARS.
This is the second book in a series but it is a total stand alone. I had no idea it was part of a series until after I read it. Amazing, well thought out and wonderfully developed characters and plot line.
At the tender age of 7 Max comes home from school one day to his mother laying in the floor with a needle sticking out of her arm and she is unresponsive. His father is in a bedroom with his girlfriend and Max has called 911. The police arrive along with the medics and max's mother is dead. Max meets officer Thomas who helps Max feel safe for the first time ever.
Next we meet Reagan, at a bookstore/latte shop that she co-owns with her sister and brother-in-law. Reagan is in the stockroom sorting books when she hears gun shots and screams. After what seems like forever the officers come and find her and she discovers that her sister and brother-in-law have been killed. Reagan is a social worker and then ends up with custody of her young Nephew Jonathan.
Flash forward and we see Reagan and Jonathan dealing with a pain in the rear neighbor who makes an unwelcome move on Reagan and the new neighbor Max steps in and makes Chad see that he is messing with the wrong people. INSTANT attraction. However with their own issues they are both scared of relationships and want nothing serious. But will they overcome the fear and figure it all out?
Less than 3 days after they meet Reagan is taking a road trip from Miami to Pennsylvania with Max to see his dying Mentor Thomas and to check on his adopted dad Jack who is in the hospital after having a heart attack. While there both Reagan and Max have to learn to communicate and trust each other with their pasts and face the facts that they have fallen in love with one another. through much help from friends and facing all of these fears they learn how to cope and how to rely on one another.
WONDERFUL stand alone book. Jamie Russell has really got a great book here.
Author Jamie Russell
FIVE STARS.
This is the second book in a series but it is a total stand alone. I had no idea it was part of a series until after I read it. Amazing, well thought out and wonderfully developed characters and plot line.
At the tender age of 7 Max comes home from school one day to his mother laying in the floor with a needle sticking out of her arm and she is unresponsive. His father is in a bedroom with his girlfriend and Max has called 911. The police arrive along with the medics and max's mother is dead. Max meets officer Thomas who helps Max feel safe for the first time ever.
Next we meet Reagan, at a bookstore/latte shop that she co-owns with her sister and brother-in-law. Reagan is in the stockroom sorting books when she hears gun shots and screams. After what seems like forever the officers come and find her and she discovers that her sister and brother-in-law have been killed. Reagan is a social worker and then ends up with custody of her young Nephew Jonathan.
Flash forward and we see Reagan and Jonathan dealing with a pain in the rear neighbor who makes an unwelcome move on Reagan and the new neighbor Max steps in and makes Chad see that he is messing with the wrong people. INSTANT attraction. However with their own issues they are both scared of relationships and want nothing serious. But will they overcome the fear and figure it all out?
Less than 3 days after they meet Reagan is taking a road trip from Miami to Pennsylvania with Max to see his dying Mentor Thomas and to check on his adopted dad Jack who is in the hospital after having a heart attack. While there both Reagan and Max have to learn to communicate and trust each other with their pasts and face the facts that they have fallen in love with one another. through much help from friends and facing all of these fears they learn how to cope and how to rely on one another.
WONDERFUL stand alone book. Jamie Russell has really got a great book here.
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