Title: Come To Me Quietly (The Closer to You Series,
Book 1)
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Blog Tour hosted by: Shh Moms Reading, Literary Mania Reviews, and Brandee’s Book Endings
Synopsis:
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?
My Review:
Come To Me Quietly is the story about a girl named Aleena Moore who secretly loves a boy named Jared Holt.
Aleena hasn't seen or heard from Jared in 6 years. Just when she tries to open her heart to another boy, Jared returns. Jared has a painful past that he regrets and would take it back in a heartbeat. When Jared returns, he is invited to come stay with Aleena and her brother. Aleena doesn't know he's back, so when she comes home imagine what she thinks when she sees him asleep on her living room couch. In the 6 years that have past, Jared is cover in tattoos and is so lost in rage that he's practically begging to be saved from his all his demons. Including the memories of his mother's death. Now that he's back, Aleena hope that he stays. As they reconnect, they find a passion so hot that they can't seem to stay away from each other.
As their affair develops, Aleena see all the pain Jared carries with him and just as she tries to help Jared lashes out in saying that he can't be saved. Inside he know that he doesn't deserve Aleena. He believes that he just takes and takes from people. He thinks that he doesn't deserve love at all. But Jared can't deny the attraction between Aleena and him. It's just a matter of time before he must decides whether he should stay or leave.
I really enjoyed reading this story. Every chapter I felt what Jared was going through. It was like I WAS Jared. I felt is pain. Like he said, 'I just keep taking and taking.' He is so full of anger over his mother's death that he distanced himself from everyone. I loved Aleena because, like her, I would do anything for Jared. Aleena tried to make him see that he was worthy of being loved by someone. I loved Aleena because she never gave up of Jared.
Book Cover: 10/10
Rating:
Come To Me Quietly Book Trailer
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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A.L. Jackson Bio:
A.L.
Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to
You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled, When We Collide, and If
Forever Comes.
She
first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college
student. She filled the journals she
carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the
difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.
Years
later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest
friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length
novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives
with her husband and three children.
Look
for Come to Me Softly, book two in
the Closer To You Series, coming July 1, 2014
Synopsis
Aleena Moore is content with her life. She has goals and dreams and an easy smile. She also has a secret she holds locked inside.
Jared Holt believes he doesn’t deserve to love or be loved. He destroys everything he touches. Haunted by the mistake that shattered his life, he’s fled from the memory of that pain.
Jared doesn’t know why he’s compelled to return, but finds himself drawn back to the place where it all began. The exact place where it ended. When he runs into his childhood best friend, Aleena’s older brother Christopher, he agrees to share Christopher and Aleena’s apartment while he looks for a place of his own.
Aleena is no longer the little girl Jared remembers from his past and evokes feelings in him he never wanted to feel again. Terrified of destroying her, he fights to keep her away. But her touch is something he can’t resist—the touch that sealed his fate.
Their pasts are intertwined and their futures uncertain. The only truths they know are the secrets they whisper in the night.
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A.L. Jackson is
the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as
well as other contemporary romance titles, including If Forever Comes, Pulled
and When We Collide, as well as the New Adult Romance Come To Me Quietly due
out January 7, 2014. 
