DOUBLE REVIEW: LETTING YOU GO & WHEN YOU WERE MINE

This review is a little different as I'm doing a double review for Letting You Go and When You Were Mine by Jordan Marie. These two books are a duet, but there is also a third standalone in the Stone Lake series (review to come later!). 

Book: Letting You Go by Jordan Marie
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: April 29, 2019
Genre: Young Adult. Small Town Romance.
Series: The Stone Lake series #1
Pages: 276 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.  

Letting You Go is the first book in Gavin and Luna's duet. This first book is a young adult romance. The second book in the duet (below) is when they are adults. 

I met Luna Marshall when I was seventeen.
She was a force of nature that I wasn’t ready for.
She was gravity and I was caught in her pull--
Powerless while she held me in a world I was desperate to escape.

They say you never forget your first love.
I believe they’re right.
I’ll always remember the sound of her laughter.
The way she whispered my name when I touched her, and the taste of her on my lips.
I’ll remember everything.

Including the look of pain as I walked away.

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​My Rating: 4 Stars
Tropes: Young Adult | High School Romance

First and foremost, I really enjoyed Letting You Go by Jordan Marie. This is the first book I’ve read from her and I’m genuinely excited to read more. I do want to mention though that this book cover is deceiving. When you look at it, you see adults, but this is NOT an adult romance. This is a young adult high school romance. Had I known this prior to reading it I most likely wouldn’t have read it because I was looking for a small town, adult romance. Either way though, I’m glad I did despite it being different than I thought because this book is so good. Another thing that should be mentioned for potential readers is that this book is NOT a standalone and there is a major cliffhanger at the end. Again, had I known this I more than likely would have skipped it because that wasn’t what I wanted but I enjoyed the heck out of it anyway. I just wanted other readers to know this before buying it and expecting one type of book and getting something completely different.

Gavin and Luna are absolutely magical together. Jordan Marie made their relationship (despite the many hardships) feel so authentic that they came alive through the pages. I wish these two could have had an easy go at first love, but their relationship was anything but this. These two had everything stacked against them and there were so many times I wanted to scream and cry because of all the crap being thrown their way.

Gavin is a boy on the wrong side of the tracks. He has an alcoholic for a father and people seem to think Gavin is going to be the same way. For this reason, Luna’s father and mother won’t let her have anything to do with him.

Luna comes from money, but she doesn’t care how different her, and Gavin’s world are. All she cares about is the chemistry and love between them. Unfortunately, the world wants to keep them apart. First, it’s Gavin’s brother Atticus who is borderline psycho and makes Gavin seem like a bad seed. Then it’s a murderer who starts killing girls with a rose calling card. Could things get worse for these two? They sure can and Jordan Marie packs punch after punch.

Readers will have to wait and see what becomes of Gavin and Luna in the next novel, When You Were Mine. I’m sure the road will be bumpy, but I have high hopes for these two! I can’t wait to see what happens next!

★★★★

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When You Were Mine is the second book in Gavin and Luna's duet in the Stone Lake series. You must read Letting You go before this one. 

Book: When You Were Mine by Jordan Marie
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: June 25, 2019
Genre: Adult Romance. Small Town. Second Chances.
Series: The Stone Lake series #2 (not a standalone)
Pages: 312 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.  ​

I loved a boy.
Gavin Lodge.
He was sweet, gentle, kind and he made me feel alive.
Letting him go was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life.
A hundred times I wished I had done things differently.
A thousand times I wished I had gone with him.
A million times I wished he had chosen me.
I didn’t. Neither did he.
Now he’s back.
No longer a boy, but a man.
I can’t love him.
It almost destroyed me once and I won’t let that happen again.
That should be the end of it.
And maybe it would have been…
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If someone wasn’t trying to kill me.

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​My Rating: 4 Stars
Tropes: Second Chance Romance | Romantic Suspense

Jordan Marie has wrapped up Luna and Gavin’s duet PERFECTLY. This one, while much different than the first, had all the elements of an angsty second chance romance with the added bonus of suspense. I truly enjoyed it!

One of the things I loved most of this duet was the fact that the first book ( LETTING YOU GO ) told their story when they were younger (and in high school) and this one took place 13 years later AFTER everything went down in the conclusion to the previous book. Normally I would think that the two books were far too different (you go from a high school romance to an adult romance) but it worked so well for this series. Not only that, it helped that I read them one after the other so all the feelings I had were still in the forefront of my mind.

If you enjoy an EPIC romance that spans time, one that will leave you feeling all the emotions, then I strongly recommend reading these two books. There is a third one in the series ( BEFORE WE FALL but it’s only interconnected to this one because it’s the secondary characters own love story. I can’t wait to read it!

★★★★

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