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THIS is what a second chance romance should look like. It is SUPERB!

September 9, 2018

More of You is everything I want in a second chance romance. And more. AL Jackson ignites an intensity only she can deliver and creates characters full of an unbridled passion that is hard to match. Faith Avery and Jace Jacobs are the very epitome of true love that sadly got snatched away due to bad decisions and the ongoing guilt of never being good enough. What the Beauty and her Beast had was quietly beautiful and as they come face to face again after 10 long years apart, I was right there with them, secretly hopeful they could find their magic once more.

Being at a loss for words when it comes to Jackson and her work seems to be my norm these days. What she has masterfully perfected with this book is a gorgeously-guided journey for Faith and Jace filled with a plethora of emotions with each turn of the page. The underlying mystery that is the very reason why Jace is back to help Faith when she is at her lowest, makes this story all the more intriguing. Their chemistry is evident even when they aren't next to each other. The tether that links their hearts was never stronger. And despite all their reasons, all their logic as to why they shouldn't be together, getting to see those walls crumble, each letting the other in oh so carefully, was nothing short of wonderful for me.

Theirs is not an easy road. But with incredible support from bestie Courtney, brother Ian and best friend in Mack, both Faith and Jace have the makings of a family they could only dare dream of, once upon a time. And the sunshine that is Bailey with her innocence and adorable musings, only made me fall harder for this entire cast of characters.

Add to that, one helluva jaw-dropping revelation and the heat that is never at a low simmer when it comes to Jace and Faith, and you've got yourself the consummate story. AL Jackson brings her writing to yet another level with the start of the Confessions of the Heart series and I look forward to more.

When you want the very best in second-chance romance, look no further than More of You. It is a book that will grab you by the heart and soul and fill both up completely.

5+ stars!

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Megan Graham

Deja Vu-Much like her other books

February 27, 2019

It took me a LONG time to finish this book. The problem with this book is that I had just read another book by this author in a completely different series and yet I had this intense feeling of deja vu. The two books both referred to the guy love interest as their “beast” and each guy had been ripped out of the girl’s life due to a horrible event that changed who they were as people. So even though I would have really liked this book, it was so much like the other one that I could almost guess what was going to happen and I was right. It really cheapened the love story between Jace & Faith because the author had already told this story with 2 other leads. Bored is not the right word but having read such a similar story a few weeks prior to starting this, I just could not get into this book which is a shame because had I not read the other, I would have enjoyed it. It also makes me nervous to read anything else by this author because I read an excerpt of another one of her upcoming books and it had the same kind of vibe to it, with the same characters n that broken boy who is brought into a world of hope because of the girl he meets. Just a bit disappointing.

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Macarena36

Okay

September 22, 2018

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This book was mediocre.
It had suspense and romance.
But the story kept changing pace.
It was a on story.

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Mary Hix

Too melodramatic

September 12, 2018

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Omg, so cheesy and melodramatic. She's torn in two, she's split in two, and it goes on and on.

So melodramatic and cheesy.

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CapitolQT

I suggest reading the second book first

December 17, 2018

Format: Kindle Edition

So, the second book in this series is better. I accidentally read them out of order and I'm glad I did because I never would have continued with this series if I'd started with this one. The character development is better and if I hadn't already read All of You, I wouldn't have understood anything about these characters (like what the heck Jace does that's made him rich in his early twenty's after spending years in prison).

But I DID finish... kind of. I heavily skimmed from about 30% to about 85% then lightly skimmed the last 15% of the book.

Part of my problem is that I don't like flashback scenes. or flipping back from the past to the present. To me, that's cheating. If you have to explain every single bit of background to support your story, you're not really telling a good story, right? I should be able to understand that they had a "dreams" in high school without having to go back there and hear the characters say "we have dreams".

I wish the h was stronger. I don't think she did anything or accomplished one task in the entire book. Actually I wish the H was stronger, too. He's kind of a punk... a little to angsty and flighty for my taste. He's a sweetheart, but not very alpha.

The "surprise" ending is kind of obvious. It's like Scooby Doo. At age 5, you figured out that the only person not in the group that keeps randomly popping up is going to be the bad guy. Same here. But that's not a big deal; it's a romance, not a suspense.

I apparently have to get used to this newfangled style of writing where every sentence is a paragraph. Who voted for this? Why are we reinventing how to write the English language? There ARE actual rules. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (BTW, It wasn't broke).

I would give it one star because it was soooo drawn out and not a lot happens. The connection that is necessary in a romance is buried in the past, don't really get present day "feels". The metaphors of "beauty" and "beast" are not subtle at all; would have been cool if we were not smacked in the face with it every page. But, I'm giving half a star to Courtney and another half to Mack. To me, they were the most developed, interesting characters in the book. Fingers crossed they end up together.

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GMR

DNF

September 27, 2018

Format: Kindle Edition

I normally love this author, but couldn't handle the internal dialogue that repeated over, and over, and over. I gave up at 20%, because I had already skimmed over so much filler about how perfect she was, how much he had loved her, how sorry he was, how in love she had been, and on, and on, that it was unreal.

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Aynat

Predictable and dissatisfied

October 22, 2018

Format: Kindle Edition

Yeah for an AL Jackson book this one came up pretty short. Very disappointing, I kept at it, and 1 week later I’ve finished it. Usually I finish an AL Jackson book in half a day because I just can’t put it down.

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Roseanna C.

Dissapointed

September 19, 2018

Format: Kindle Edition

Let me start off by saying i love a.l. jackson's book but this one left me disappointed. It was so slow and i feel like the charecters had no dialogue no development. I wound up skimming alot and i never had to do that with one of her books before. Sorry I dont know it was just a miss for me.

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