Aleena Moore is content with her life. She has goals and dreams and an easy smile. She also has a secret she holds locked inside.
Jared Holt believes he doesn’t deserve to love or be loved. He destroys everything he touches. Haunted by the mistake that shattered his life, he’s fled from the memory of that pain.
Jared doesn’t know why he’s compelled to return, but finds himself drawn back to the place where it all began. The exact place where it ended. When he runs into his childhood best friend, Aleena’s older brother Christopher, he agrees to share Christopher and Aleena’s apartment while he looks for a place of his own.
Aleena is no longer the little girl Jared remembers from his past and evokes feelings in him he never wanted to feel again. Terrified of destroying her, he fights to keep her away. But her touch is something he can’t resist—the touch that sealed his fate.
Their pasts are intertwined and their futures uncertain. The only truths they know are the secrets they whisper in the night.
Series: Closer to You #1
Release Date: 01/07/2014
Publisher: NAL
Source: Publisher
Reviewer: Karen
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Reviewer’s Thoughts
COME TO ME QUIETLY is a dark, intense, emotional love story about a damaged man with little self esteem.
Aly is twenty and shares an apartment with her brother Christopher, while they both attend college. She is excited when Christopher tells her he has invited his childhood friend, Jared to stay with them, until Jared can find his own place. When Aly and Jared meet again, for the first time in six years, she can’t believe how much he’s changed. The years have hardened Jared and he has built a shell around himself. Gone is the carefree boy Aly used to know. Jared can’t believe how beautiful and innocent Aly is, he is drawn to her from the first moment he sees her. Jared and Aly are attracted to one another, but try to fight their feelings for each other. Jared is living in pain and still struggling to move forward from a devastating event. Jared thinks Aly deserves someone better than him. Aly is kind and generous and wants to help him with his pain and help him move forward.
Jared is big, good looking and always protective of those he cares about. My heart aches for Jared because he is in so much pain. Jared has a big heart, if he will only learn to open it up. He has a pessimistic view on life and always expects the worst to happen. There is little happiness in this story. It is a dark love story about pain, remorse and grief. Aly is the opposite of Jared. She is sweet, innocent, optimistic about her future and confident. Jared is dark, brooding and emotionally scarred . Can they meet halfway and find happiness?
COME TO ME QUIETLY is the first in the Closer to You series. This is not a cliffhanger, but there are some unanswered questions that will probably be reveled in the next book. A. L. Jackson is a gifted writer and COME TO ME QUIETLY is a moving love story.
