Review: Wanting Reed – Antoinette Candela

“Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.”

How do you live with yourself when you are the reason you lost the one thing that meant the most to you.

Timing is everything and for Reed, he can never seem to catch a break. When Reed returns to Boston to redeem himself he finds that Elle has already moved on, building a new life, a new beginning. He needs her to know that he meant every word before he left, that he never meant to leave her. Will he ever get that chance to tell her?

How do you love again when the one person who made you feel like you were his whole world left you with a broken heart? Hoping that life and new friends could keep her memories and feelings for Reed at bay, Elle chases life and all that it has to offer until she is confronted with heartbreak again.

Is time and space enough to get past losing your once in a lifetime or will Elle be always Wanting Reed?

Series: Break Me #2
Release Date: January 31st 2014
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Hooked On Books Tour
Reviewer: Shannon
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3.5 Cocktails

If you haven’t read Breaking Elle, you must before you start this one.  WANTING REED picks up pretty much where the first book ended.  Reed is in Texas recovering from his run in with the unsavory fellow he borrowed money from and Elle is in Boston trying to recover from what she perceives is Reed’s abandonment of her.  Both of them are broken by what Reed’s past has done to them.  Reed knows he has a lot to make up for with Elle and she’s pretty much put Reed in the flaming pile of shit category.  I will tell you, Elle is a stubborn woman who can hold a grudge.  She had a right to her anger, as far as Reed is concerned, but I found it irritating that she would hold so much against Reed, but be so willing to forgive others when they purposefully misled her.  But equally frustrating is when she is finally forced into dealing with Reed, she completely falls back into his arms.  There were many times when I wanted to scream at Reed just to walk away because she was so frustrating.

I was pretty much already in love with Reed from the first book, but this one solidified that.  Even though he spent the majority of the book on his hands and knees trying to beg for forgiveness, it proved the depth of his feelings for Elle.  I would be hard pressed to stay mad at a man who tried as much as Reed did, even with his screw ups (which there were a few).

I have been waiting for the continuation of Reed and Elle’s story.  I had a burning desire to know exactly how Reed was going to try and win Elle back.  Would Elle forgive him or would she turned to her best friend Tyler (as it appeared at the end of Breaking Elle).  I got all the answers I was looking for, but I didn’t find myself loving this book as much as I did the first one.  Most of that was because of how stubborn Elle was.  While I didn’t want her to rush back into Reed’s arms without some kind of apology or groveling, I think her stubbornness and unwillingness to bend when it came to Reed turned me off a bit.  That said, this was still a solid read and one that I couldn’t put down once I started it.