Welcome to my stop on the Feeling This blog tour hosted by Into the Night Book Reviews!
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Review:
The beginning of this book totally drew me in. There are two different story lines and I couldn’t figure out how the two characters were going to come together, so I was immediately intrigued. What was interesting was that in the beginning I was reading for Jordan’s story, and then once his world met up with Kimber’s, I wound up reading for her. While I had some qualms about how fast their relationship escalated, I definitely think if you’re a fan of relationships that cross socio-economic boundaries then this is a great book for you.
Jordan experiences this huge and painful loss in the beginning. There are all these secrets and interesting relationships that unfold immediately in Jordan’s family, with his fiancée and her family. I was really looking to get caught up in his world and to untangle everything. But when Jordan loses Susan, his ties to that world unravel and he disappears to the middle of nowhere. His whole healing process was painful but it’s what kept me attached to him. You want to hug him and tell him everything is going to be okay.
At first, Kimber made me a little crazy with her woe-is-me story. But pretty soon you can see that she’s doing everything she can to get out of her situation. And even though I had a hard time wanting Jordan to move on so soon, I really did like Kimber once Jordan entered her life. It both made her a little less intense and her best side really seemed to come out. She is crazy and strong and she’s feisty, but all of those things just made her endearing when she was with Jordan.
Emotions run high in this book and when things are happy you’re just waiting for the next disaster to happen. Every good moment is surrounded by a bit of sadness, which just goes to show how the people we love and lose are always with us. I also love the community that exists around these two and the way they sort of carve out their own space in the world. These are two people trying to figure out where they fit and that’s a really big part of NA, which is handled nicely in this book.
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About the Book:
Completely devastated when his life is ripped out from underneath him, Jordan Rhodes decides to take a break. A break from everything he's always known; the county club life-style, his life-long friends and his overbearing parents. He just wants to be free to get lost and not feel the pain he has endured.
Kimber Maguire has been dealt the tough card her entire life. An ailing mom, a sister who refuses to face reality and a yearning for the one that got away, she finds putting one foot in front of the other as her only saving grace. What she really wants is to be free of feeling the pressure that is her life to get lost.
But when Jordan finds Kimber while losing himself, they both discover, sometimes you just need to feel to be found.
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About the Author:
Casey Blue is a hopeless romantic always striving for the perfect love in which to write about. Her ideal swoony boy constantly changes. She is the Hyde to Jekyll and Hyde; whatever her other half does, she’s a little naughtier! She is addicted to caffeine and loves Jelly Bellies. She loves imperfect characters because in the end we are all imperfect. She has been writing her whole life but ‘Feeling This’ is her first New Adult masterpiece. She is happily married with kids and lives in the sunny state of Florida.
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