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Love Left Behind
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S.H. Kolee (Goodreads Author)
It's not everyday that you get to move to New York City and reinvent yourself. I was tired of being boring, predictable Emma Mills. I was convinced that my life would be totally different in the Big Apple.
And I was right.
Jackson Reynard was irresistible and I had no plans on resisting him. Jackson was the epitome of tall, dark and handsome and I was more than happy to let...more
And I was right.
Jackson Reynard was irresistible and I had no plans on resisting him. Jackson was the epitome of tall, dark and handsome and I was more than happy to let...more
ebook, 416 pages
Published
September 22nd 2012
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3.5 Stars...This was a decent read, although I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would and I know that puts me in the minority here. There were a lot of elements that didn't sit well with me, but there were some sweet ones, as well. Conflicted much??
Emma moves to New York after a rough breakup where she meets Jackson, a sexy, aspiring actor who is also a trainer at a local gym. There is an immediate attraction and Emma allows herself to indulge in a harmless, heated fling. Except this is no...more
Emma moves to New York after a rough breakup where she meets Jackson, a sexy, aspiring actor who is also a trainer at a local gym. There is an immediate attraction and Emma allows herself to indulge in a harmless, heated fling. Except this is no...more
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How can you have sex with a guy that looks sort of like Owen Wilson while closing your eyes in a blacked out room, facing due north after about six shots of tequila when you've been pumped full of Channing Tatum in broad daylight, bent over a desk...repeatedly.
That's sort of how I felt about Love Left behind. It was decent, even somewhat satisfying, but I've had better. I wanted to like it so bad. So. Bad. It just fell short. Emma and Jackson got together way too quick, but then it slowed down....more
That's sort of how I felt about Love Left behind. It was decent, even somewhat satisfying, but I've had better. I wanted to like it so bad. So. Bad. It just fell short. Emma and Jackson got together way too quick, but then it slowed down....more
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Jackson made this book for me. Emma, not so much. Talk about over the top jealous/possessive! This guy took it to such an extreme it got a bit scary at some points for me. I kept thinking "so this is what guys are like just before they pull out a gun and kill the woman they are stalking" - thank goodness the book never went in that direction!
Emma moves to New York City from her native Maryland after calling off her wedding to the only boy she has ever dated. She and Sean have been together for t...more
Emma moves to New York City from her native Maryland after calling off her wedding to the only boy she has ever dated. She and Sean have been together for t...more
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It is so hard to review this book because I both loved and hated it equally.
The first half of the book was perfect. I loved Jackson and Emma, although their relationship did seem to come out of nowhere, and everything was going well.. until 49%.
And that was went it all went wrong and Emma momumentally screwed up. From that point on I was just fuming with the book and all the characters. Why is it so hard for two people to just talk things through?!
Jackson was also another issue.. I get people c...more
The first half of the book was perfect. I loved Jackson and Emma, although their relationship did seem to come out of nowhere, and everything was going well.. until 49%.
And that was went it all went wrong and Emma momumentally screwed up. From that point on I was just fuming with the book and all the characters. Why is it so hard for two people to just talk things through?!
Jackson was also another issue.. I get people c...more
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I love an Alpha man, heck tell me to "shut up" every now and then. But for sure - you had better be bringing in big bucks, treating me like a queen, making me feel like women ACTUALLY have those uh hum...releases they have in the books, Love me like you are crazy, possess me like a lunatic, BUT - follow me, YOU.HAD.BETTER.BRING.IT.
Now, backing up a bit - all of that crazy and lunatic talk is just that: talk - I cannot do anything with a crazy man. Long gone are the days of the "Bodice Rippers" a...more
Now, backing up a bit - all of that crazy and lunatic talk is just that: talk - I cannot do anything with a crazy man. Long gone are the days of the "Bodice Rippers" a...more
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This book was making me crazy! But in a fun good way. Emma moved to NY to start over and be independent after a failed engagement. She meets Jackson and goes right into another relationship. But this one is different. Passionate. Happy. Fulfilled. But tragedy happens and guilt overrides her and she makes a decision that greatly affects her. Not only that, but conniving shady bitches don't help either. 5 years go by without knowing the truth. Then the truth comes to light and certain bitches are...more
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HOLY ...yeah i won't finish that.
SPOILER ALERT. (i wont reveal everything, but the synopsis pretty much reveals all so..)
The book was super intense. I'll start off by saying that some of the scenes.. phwoahh they got steamy, steamy, uber steamy. I loved their relationship, and the concept that he held a torch for her for so long, even after he got so famous. The whole thing with Colin.. well that was predictable, knew he would be the wedge to drive these two lovers apart. I will say however, I H...more
SPOILER ALERT. (i wont reveal everything, but the synopsis pretty much reveals all so..)
The book was super intense. I'll start off by saying that some of the scenes.. phwoahh they got steamy, steamy, uber steamy. I loved their relationship, and the concept that he held a torch for her for so long, even after he got so famous. The whole thing with Colin.. well that was predictable, knew he would be the wedge to drive these two lovers apart. I will say however, I H...more
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Oct 08, 2012
Blair
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3.5 stars for content
3.5 stars for steam (moderate steam + one anal scene)
The angst in this book is extremely predictable. That didn't take away from the story for me - I liked knowing who would instigate drama right from the get go, but I think it will take away from the reading experience for some. You've read this story a million times: boy meets girl, boy and girl are forced apart, (view spoiler)
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3.5 stars for steam (moderate steam + one anal scene)
The angst in this book is extremely predictable. That didn't take away from the story for me - I liked knowing who would instigate drama right from the get go, but I think it will take away from the reading experience for some. You've read this story a million times: boy meets girl, boy and girl are forced apart, (view spoiler)
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An excellent story. I couldn't put it down. A must read.
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Here’s the thing, I LOVED the first half of this book. I loved the great detail and dialogue between the characters. I loved the character of Emma and I totally identified with her. I fell in love and married the first boy I ever dated when I was 14… I had the “fairy tale” ending but can understand having your life planned out for you at such a young age. I enjoyed reading about her being brave enough to get out and have her own life, even if it...more
Here’s the thing, I LOVED the first half of this book. I loved the great detail and dialogue between the characters. I loved the character of Emma and I totally identified with her. I fell in love and married the first boy I ever dated when I was 14… I had the “fairy tale” ending but can understand having your life planned out for you at such a young age. I enjoyed reading about her being brave enough to get out and have her own life, even if it...more
I took a bite of my bread pudding and the apple tart was instantly forgotten. "Oh my God," I said. "You have to try this. It's incredible." I reached over with a spoonful of bread pudding for Jackson to taste, mimicking his earlier gesture. Jackson guided my hand with his, taking the bite of bread pudding from the spoon. Instead of releasing my hand as he ate the bite of bread pudding, he kept hold of it, gazing at me. He then smiled and turned my hand over that was still clutching the spoon,
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WOW.
This book made me giddy and pissed me off. I have never ever ever been more pissed off at a character in my LIFE like i was with Emma.
But this book was absolutely AMAZING!
I felt like i was right there in the fight with them!
Great great great book!
This book made me giddy and pissed me off. I have never ever ever been more pissed off at a character in my LIFE like i was with Emma.
But this book was absolutely AMAZING!
I felt like i was right there in the fight with them!
Great great great book!
This is my new favorite book. I live the story line it made me cry, laugh, get frustrated but it makes me think of my love. I give it 6 stars if it would let me!!!! Team Emma and Jackson!!!
The hero of this one makes the alpha hero of a usual romance seem mild-mannered and super sane. In this modern romance wish-fulfillment (sorta), our ordinary heroine has perfect romance with uber hunk but then evil secondaries and heroine stupidity break up the little paradise they got going. Five years later, he is a Hollywood superstar but is still as obsessed with her as ever once they meet again.
OK, the writing style is actively painful. And seeing I read ff.net on a routine basis, that is...more
OK, the writing style is actively painful. And seeing I read ff.net on a routine basis, that is...more
I'm thinking I didn't read this right because a lot of you liked it when all I want to do is to just finish and be done. Don't get me wrong it's actually really ok in the aspect of romance and all. It's not the worst but ugh... not sure why but it felt like I'm reading a book that's trying really hard to resonate 50 Shades and failing.
I don't get the attraction part at all! AT ALL! I get love at first sight or lust at first sight to be more appropriate but hell, there should at least be somethi...more
I don't get the attraction part at all! AT ALL! I get love at first sight or lust at first sight to be more appropriate but hell, there should at least be somethi...more
I pretty much had the same feeling about this book as it seems everyone else did. They fell in love too fast and too hard for my liking and the revelation of their great misunderstanding came a little too late for me.
I was annoyed for a big portion of the book. I liked Jackson and Emma in the first half better. Emma mentions a lot in the second half that Jackson became very domineering and she is no longer the same person either and that bothered me a lot. Jackson let his career define him too...more
I was annoyed for a big portion of the book. I liked Jackson and Emma in the first half better. Emma mentions a lot in the second half that Jackson became very domineering and she is no longer the same person either and that bothered me a lot. Jackson let his career define him too...more
Definitely a 3.5 for me. There were parts of this book that I really liked, but then there were things that just had my eyes rolling. I can look over the falling in love really quick (I feel like that's normal in romance novels), but the characters were hard to love consistently though out the book. Just when you started to like them their personalities would flip for no reason and say or do something crazy.
I felt like the plot was slightly predictable and knew pretty much from the beginning wh...more
I felt like the plot was slightly predictable and knew pretty much from the beginning wh...more
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I am a fan of emotional roller coaster books. I love drama and conflict. I love conflicted characters, angst, mistakes, second chances and steamy scenes. If a book has all of these, then I would be having a hard time putting it down. This was what happened when I had gotten a chance to read this book. I first saw it as one of the books recommended to me on my goodreads account. I was intrigued at the cover, it screams sexiness and reminded me of...more
I am a fan of emotional roller coaster books. I love drama and conflict. I love conflicted characters, angst, mistakes, second chances and steamy scenes. If a book has all of these, then I would be having a hard time putting it down. This was what happened when I had gotten a chance to read this book. I first saw it as one of the books recommended to me on my goodreads account. I was intrigued at the cover, it screams sexiness and reminded me of...more
This book was written wonderfully! Emma moves to New York after breaking off an engagement with Sean, her best friend for 10 yrs. She only felt that was the right thing to do since she only had friendship feelings for him. Emma moves to New York to start fresh and roommates with Claire who she meets in person for the first time moving there. Thankful for Claire introducing Emma to her friends, Emma meets Jackson. A handsome struggling actor. They hit it off immediately and fall desperately in l...more
Even tho the big misunderstanding that kept the couple apart for 5 years was kind of ridiculous (it got dragged out for too long), but I loved the intense obsessive relationship between Jackson and Emma. Loved Jackson's vulnerability, alpha-ness, and dysfunctional need for Emma: He's definitely the kind of hero who can't function and is more like a walking corpse without his heroine (my fave). I thought their relationship progression was written really well and many parts had me squealing and fe...more
This book started off GREAT! I wasn't totally vibing the "insta love" between Emma & Jackson, but it was easily overlooked because they were just so darn endearing. I loved the premise of one person coming out of the wrong long term relationship & stumbling head first into that perfect soul-mate kind of love. It went really well for the first half of the book......and then the second half of the book happened :( The big misunderstanding that occurred was pretty cookie cutter and I felt l...more
I had a love/hate relationship with this book. One thing I loved was Jackson! Emma was great at times, but at other times infuriating! Claire was terrible... ugh. There was a lot of good in this book, I loved Jackson of course, and I loved him with Emma. Especially in the beginning half of the book. What a man! It didn't hurt that he was hot and there was definitely some passionate scenes between the two of them.
Some of the things that bothered me... (view spoiler)...more
Some of the things that bothered me... (view spoiler)...more
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100 stars, Wow were to start I guess I'll start with the most important thing I LOVE Jackson. But I don't think you really understand, what I mean is Jackson was one of the best possessive, hot, intense, crazy in love, do anything for Emma, Loves her more than anything, can't live without her hero ever. His devastation when they were apart is like no other hero I have ever read. There is a scene in this book that blew me away when he explains about his apartment and Emma(If you read this book an...more
3.5 Stars
This book is really divided into two parts. There was before the time jump which tells the story of Emma and Jackson meeting and falling in love, and then there was after the time jump which shows five years later after Emma and Jackson have been driven apart. I loved the first half of this book. I thought that Emma and Jackson were adorable and I really enjoyed reading about them. Now after the jump is where I lost interest a little bit. I know it's five years and people change in five...more
This book is really divided into two parts. There was before the time jump which tells the story of Emma and Jackson meeting and falling in love, and then there was after the time jump which shows five years later after Emma and Jackson have been driven apart. I loved the first half of this book. I thought that Emma and Jackson were adorable and I really enjoyed reading about them. Now after the jump is where I lost interest a little bit. I know it's five years and people change in five...more
I'd give it 10, 100, 100 stars if possible!
After reading this book S.K. Kolee is on my book radar.
There are not enough words to say how I've loved this book. I've never skipped a page out of boredom. Not one.
I've stayed up very late to keep reading so much I was engrossed.
I've liked that Jackson and Emma fell in love when he was not a mega star yet. All the choices Emma made I'd have made myself.
Jackson is to die for. I love his desperate love, jealousy. He is SO in love with Emma he's heartbrok...more
After reading this book S.K. Kolee is on my book radar.
There are not enough words to say how I've loved this book. I've never skipped a page out of boredom. Not one.
I've stayed up very late to keep reading so much I was engrossed.
I've liked that Jackson and Emma fell in love when he was not a mega star yet. All the choices Emma made I'd have made myself.
Jackson is to die for. I love his desperate love, jealousy. He is SO in love with Emma he's heartbrok...more
I would give this 3 stars, mostly because the second part of it seemed to drag out forever and I thought it was not as good as the first part.
In the beginning I loved Emma. I thought she was very brave to get away from that life she was trapped in. But when she started creating problems in her own relationship without any obvious, logical reason for it, that did it for me. (view spoiler)...more
In the beginning I loved Emma. I thought she was very brave to get away from that life she was trapped in. But when she started creating problems in her own relationship without any obvious, logical reason for it, that did it for me. (view spoiler)...more
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I didn't know if I was getting sick or if it was the book but I had to take Pepto because my stomach was a mess and actually it didn't stop hurting until I was at the end of the book so beware it's an intense roller coaster of a book! There seems to be a lot going on with Emma's guilt for her past and the Love of her future but she needed to settle her demons I could totally see where she was coming from during time but it was so heart wrenching. Oh and then to go thru the second half of the boo...more
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I finished this book yesterday but I had to stew about it for awhile to decide if I liked it or not.
Some parts I loved and some parts I hated so the end result is "it was OK". I don't like it when the main characters fall instantly in love but since Emma thought of Jackson as just a fling at first, I thought, OK, I can live with this. But that took a nose dive quickly and it was a whirlwind love-fest after the first week.
In thinking back, I'm really not a fan of Emma or Jackson. Yes, Jackson wa...more
Some parts I loved and some parts I hated so the end result is "it was OK". I don't like it when the main characters fall instantly in love but since Emma thought of Jackson as just a fling at first, I thought, OK, I can live with this. But that took a nose dive quickly and it was a whirlwind love-fest after the first week.
In thinking back, I'm really not a fan of Emma or Jackson. Yes, Jackson wa...more
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