Blog Tour ~ Review ~ Come To Me Quietly by A.L. Jackson

Title: Come To Me Quietly (The Closer to You Series, Book 1)

Author: A.L. Jackson

Release Date: January 7, 2014

Genre: New Adult Romance

Blog Tour hosted by: Shh Moms Reading, Literary Mania Reviews & Brandee’s Book 

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From the acclaimed bestselling author of Lost to You and When We Collide comes a new adult novel of one woman’s obsession: a man who’s as passionate as he is elusive—and as tempting as he is trouble…

Aleena Moore is haunted by Jared Holt. It’s been six years since she’s seen her brother’s best friend, the self-destructive bad boy she secretly loved in high school. As the years pass, she knows it’s time to move on. Time to decide between a practical nursing degree and her true dream as an artist. Time to get over Jared and give another guy a chance…

Just when she opens her heart to her friend Gabe, Aly returns home to find Jared sleeping on her couch. The teenage boy she loved has grown into a man she can’t resist. Covered in tattoos and lost in rage, he’s begging to be saved from his demons—the memories of the day he destroyed his family. As the two reconnect, their passion is hot enough to torch Aly’s judgment. But can she risk her future for a man who lives on the edge of destruction?

What to say... Jared was your typical bad boy alpha, with tattoos and a troubled past. A past he cant seem to forget, and doesn’t want to forget. He continues to punish himself.  Thinking it should have been him, he doesn’t think he deserves happiness. Or love.

Aleena "Aly" grew up in love with Jared.  When he was sent away she thought she would never see him. Boy was she wrong. The minute she laid eyes on the troubled hot tattoo man laying on her couch, all her feelings came back.

Aly and Jared had great chemistry and you knew they were soul mates. He just needed to know he could have that. 

I liked the whole plot but for some reason the story itself just didnt do it for me.

3.5 stars

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Slowly she began to approach, and I sank further back into the chair the closer she came, my knee bouncing harder as she timidly inched up in front of me. Her movements were slow, hypnotizing, and I couldn’t stop myself from watching those legs. My eyes darted to her hands. She was rubbing her thumbs over her fingertips as if she were searching for some kind of friction or maybe looking for confidence. My gaze flicked up to meet her face. A color I didn’t understand had darkened her eyes. There was no looking away as she crossed the room, and my head continued to tilt back, locked on her, lost in this place where I knew I absolutely shouldn’t fucking be. 

She stopped just a breadth from me.

My hands dropped slack, dangled at my sides. 

Everything became heavy. My fingers twitched, and I had to force the air in and out of my lungs.

I swore I could actually hear Aly’s heart beating as she hovered in hesitation an inch away. She blinked hard, squirmed before she looked at me with determination. “Jared, I don’t want you to leave.” 

“Aly. . .I. . .” What was I supposed to say? Because I didn’t want to leave either. 

I had to. 

Erasing the last of the space between us, Aly allowed the front of her legs to touch my knees, and she groaned as if the contact seared her. She wavered, before she reached out to run the back of her hand down my face, testing me. Tempting me. 

I stopped breathing altogether when she slowly straddled my lap and murmured close to my ear, “Please. . .don’t leave me.” 

Fuck. 

This was bad, really fucking bad. And I knew I should push her away, make her stop because what she was doing was only bringing us a little closer to the edge. She held onto the chair behind me, her warm body pressed into mine. There was no chance she wasn’t feeling just how much I wanted her. 

“What are you doing, Aly?” My hands went to her slender hips with the intention of edging her off my lap. Instead my fingers dug into the soft skin. 

A shudder sped up my spine when she trembled above me.

Wetting my lips, I tried to move her back, but only managed to brush up against her further. Her expression was severe but soft, her movements shaky but sure. She searched my face, her eyes burning a path as she left me utterly exposed. And I could smell her, and the memory of the way she tasted, the way she felt, overwhelmed every last one of my senses. 

She didn’t even have to move, and she was already touching me everywhere.

She swallowed, then spoke. “Did you want to kiss me last night?” 

“Last night was a mistake, Aly. I—”

Her hands went to my face, and she held me there, forcing me to look up at her. 

“I didn’t ask you if it was a mistake. I asked if you wanted to.” 

A frustrated sound worked its way free of my throat, and I shifted again, which only brought her closer. Right then I knew there was not a fucking thing I could do because nothing else mattered in the world except for the way she felt pressed up tight against me. My fingers dug further into her hips, and we were nose to nose, Aly’s hands firm on my face. I realized we were moving, our bodies subtly rocking.

I groaned. “I’ve wanted to kiss you every single second of every single day since the moment I opened my eyes to find you standing over me, Aly.

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