Review ~ The Long Way Home by Jasinda Wilder
I need you, Ava.
I am desperate. For you. For a touch. For a kiss. For the scrape of your hand down my stomach. For the slide of your lips across my hipbone. The sweep of your thigh against mine in the dulcet, drowning darkness. For the warm huff of your breath on my skin and the wet suck of your mouth around me and the building pressure of need reaching release...I am mad with need.
Wild with it.
I cannot have you. I have lost you, as I have lost myself.
And so I go in search. Of myself, and thus the man who might return to you, and take you in his arms.
I loathe each of the thousands of miles between us, but I cannot wish them away, for I hope at the end of my journey I shall find you. Or rather, find myself, and thus…you. Myself, and thus us.
I am taking the long way home, Ava.
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Christian,
I’m losing my mind, and I don’t know how to stop it. I shouldn’t be writing to you, but I am. I’m friendless, loveless, and lifeless. You’re out there somewhere, and still you’re all I really have. I hate my reliance and dependence on you, emotionally and otherwise, and that reliance is something I’m coming to recognize. I hate that I can’t hate you as much as I want to. I hate that I still love you so much.
I hate that there’s no clear solution to our conundrum. Even if we could forgive each other, what then?
I hate you, Christian. I really do.
But most of all, I don’t.
It’s complicated.
Complicatedly (still) yours,
Ava
Ava & Christian have endured a pain nobody in life should have to deal with. It is a pain that has permanently fractured them. Their journey of pain is in the series of emails and letters. At first the emails were great. Sometimes it is easier to bare your soul in words. Sometimes the written word can shoot right through you and hit you in all the feels. Then something in the story fell apart for me. It got a bit too dramatic for me. I know other couples that have dealt with this same pain, but they didn't have the ability to run off and sail around the world while the other stayed in bed, both feeling so bad for themselves they forget the other one is hurting just as badly. Though it wasn't my favorite from Jasinda, I have high hopes for the follow up book because just as I was losing the story another one was forming that I am very interested in where it is going and I hope it comes full circle to the letters and this story.
ARC provided for an honest review.
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New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and internationally bestselling author Jasinda Wilder is a Michigan native with a penchant for titillating tales about sexy men and strong women. Her bestselling titles include Alpha, Stripped, Wounded, and the #1 Amazon.com and international bestseller Falling into You. You can find her on her farm in northern Michigan with her husband, author Jack Wilder, her six children, and a menagerie of animals.
