After the explosion of Mia finding out how Jaxson felt about her, I was anxious to see how the lovely Amanda Siegrist would tell her story. Yet after giving this a read for myself I’ve got mixed feelings about it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love that you get to explore both sides to Mia and Jaxson, but at the same time I just found there to be little diddly bits of information to just not flow right or even the scenarios… however that isn’t to say that their story isn’t told good, it just means that there’s just a small few details here and there if they’d been looked into a little more that this would have been a perfect read.
I did fall in love with Mia back in the first book, but still this time round it was hard to get a good feeling when it came to her. I can understand her reservations and to not wanting to let anyone know how she was truly feeling, but still at times I just felt like she was repeating herself over and over at times. I get she was withdrawn, but still there’s only so many times that you can get to know all the ins and outs of why someone is the way she is and to me I felt that Mia at times was overdoing it.
I thought that whilst Jaxson was perfect for her in every way I did feel that if he pushed just that little bit more to get the reaction or for her to show how she’s feeling, it may have worked in his favour just that little more than he actually saw. When he pushed at her for how she felt about him, I loved the reaction he got from her, it showed me that deep down she wasn’t afraid to go after what she wanted, it was just either the fear or needing the right push to go ahead and prove that.
Out of the two characters, I thought that Jaxson stood out to me more and I found him to be more real than Mia, whereas in the first book she did seem like a different person to the one you see in this book. That’s not to say that she’s a bad person, but maybe it’s just her insecurities… who knows.
Overall, I do think that Amanda did great with the story, but I felt that it was a little rushed, I wanted more than the two weeks that they were working with.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I wanted more from the two, I wanted to see how things progressed when it was clear that Jaxson wasn’t going to give up on Mia.
Whilst I loved the prospect of this story, the one thing that really didn’t work for me was that after the ordeal that Mia goes through on her way back home one evening which then leads to the events of Jaxson turning up on her door, I didn’t like the fact that we didn’t exactly come back to where we left off when it was Mia’s turn. I get wanting to block out things, but surely it would make more sense picking back up where her chapter ended off when we went back to her?? But that wasn’t the case and to me I felt like that was a key point to the story as in a way everything was centered around the whole ordeal.
Other than that one main point niggling at me, I have to say I’m impressed with Amada’s work and I can’t wait to see what she has in store for the next book.
Jaxson has loved Mia for the last 9 years, and everything was working out fine… mainly because Mia didn’t know. However, after a slip up a couple of months ago when he revealed to Dane that he liked Mia and her overhearing, everything is far from normal.
With Mia doing everything she can to avoid him, because in her eyes she doesn’t deserve to be happy (all thanks to her dad’s words of wisdom when she was younger) so now she’s afraid of finding the right person for her… it doesn’t last long because Jaxson gets enlisted to help throw a surprise party for Gabby, whilst Mia has to throw Dane one. With neither of the two wanting the spotlight on them, Jaxson comes up with a way to help both of them come up with a creative way for both Dane and Gabby to celebrate their days.
With the excuse of needing to help plan the parties, Jaxson uses this as a way to get closer to Mia and prove to her that she deserves the world, the right guy looking after her and most of all that it’s okay to be loved.
Will Mia finally find the courage to let him in or will she be so consumed by all of her thoughts, her past and overthinking that she won’t let him in and will do everything in her power to avoid him???
Don’t get me wrong, I love that you get to explore both sides to Mia and Jaxson, but at the same time I just found there to be little diddly bits of information to just not flow right or even the scenarios… however that isn’t to say that their story isn’t told good, it just means that there’s just a small few details here and there if they’d been looked into a little more that this would have been a perfect read.
I did fall in love with Mia back in the first book, but still this time round it was hard to get a good feeling when it came to her. I can understand her reservations and to not wanting to let anyone know how she was truly feeling, but still at times I just felt like she was repeating herself over and over at times. I get she was withdrawn, but still there’s only so many times that you can get to know all the ins and outs of why someone is the way she is and to me I felt that Mia at times was overdoing it.
I thought that whilst Jaxson was perfect for her in every way I did feel that if he pushed just that little bit more to get the reaction or for her to show how she’s feeling, it may have worked in his favour just that little more than he actually saw. When he pushed at her for how she felt about him, I loved the reaction he got from her, it showed me that deep down she wasn’t afraid to go after what she wanted, it was just either the fear or needing the right push to go ahead and prove that.
Out of the two characters, I thought that Jaxson stood out to me more and I found him to be more real than Mia, whereas in the first book she did seem like a different person to the one you see in this book. That’s not to say that she’s a bad person, but maybe it’s just her insecurities… who knows.
Overall, I do think that Amanda did great with the story, but I felt that it was a little rushed, I wanted more than the two weeks that they were working with.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I wanted more from the two, I wanted to see how things progressed when it was clear that Jaxson wasn’t going to give up on Mia.
Whilst I loved the prospect of this story, the one thing that really didn’t work for me was that after the ordeal that Mia goes through on her way back home one evening which then leads to the events of Jaxson turning up on her door, I didn’t like the fact that we didn’t exactly come back to where we left off when it was Mia’s turn. I get wanting to block out things, but surely it would make more sense picking back up where her chapter ended off when we went back to her?? But that wasn’t the case and to me I felt like that was a key point to the story as in a way everything was centered around the whole ordeal.
Other than that one main point niggling at me, I have to say I’m impressed with Amada’s work and I can’t wait to see what she has in store for the next book.
Jaxson has loved Mia for the last 9 years, and everything was working out fine… mainly because Mia didn’t know. However, after a slip up a couple of months ago when he revealed to Dane that he liked Mia and her overhearing, everything is far from normal.
With Mia doing everything she can to avoid him, because in her eyes she doesn’t deserve to be happy (all thanks to her dad’s words of wisdom when she was younger) so now she’s afraid of finding the right person for her… it doesn’t last long because Jaxson gets enlisted to help throw a surprise party for Gabby, whilst Mia has to throw Dane one. With neither of the two wanting the spotlight on them, Jaxson comes up with a way to help both of them come up with a creative way for both Dane and Gabby to celebrate their days.
With the excuse of needing to help plan the parties, Jaxson uses this as a way to get closer to Mia and prove to her that she deserves the world, the right guy looking after her and most of all that it’s okay to be loved.
Will Mia finally find the courage to let him in or will she be so consumed by all of her thoughts, her past and overthinking that she won’t let him in and will do everything in her power to avoid him???