Valentina Scott is a cynic for love. After her first and only relationship left her burned and broken, she is hesitant to open herself up to the idea of love again. Even throwing herself into work at Poze, a major fashion magazine, drunken nights with her friends in the city, and long therapy sessions, haven’t quite changed her mind—Nina still tries to keep the walls around her heart sealed up tight. A wedding invitation sends her straight to the past and to the bars. And the blurry night ends with sea-blue eyes, blonde hair, and a bright smile. Jackson Ross holds the sun in his hands. He’s overly optimistic and wouldn’t know a rain cloud if it hit him. And he’s anything but deterred by her negative outlook on relationships. If anything, it just enchants him more. When he finally begins to whittle his way past her walls, life comes crashing in when he least expects it. Will Valentina take a chance and let Jackson in? Will Jackson make his way through the rain? Or will life and all its disasters come crashing down and shroud them in the darkness just when they were ready to step into the sun?
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“If it wasn’t clear, I like everything about you, Valentina Scott.”
“Tell me, have you always been this beautiful? I mean it. Not just your looks Jackson, but everything about you. Your optimism, your quiet strength, the way you care about people. The way you care about me.”
“You are the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
Well, where to freaking begin... First I just wanted to say that the writing was so damn good, so soft, so pretty and eloquent and pleasing, I just don't know how much more to describe but I just loved it so so much and it's her debut novel, god so proud and so amazed with the writing, I personally love it a lot!!
Okay now the characters... Valentina Scott is my heroine, I might not relate to her in the way that I haven't gone through a heartbreak like her and I don't look at love like she used to after everything but at the same time, she cares so deeply and she puts the loves she cares the most and loves the most above her and always tries to be there for them, tries to make them feel better. I just loved her development, she didn't need much and I loved her strength so much!! And Jackson? Jackson freaking Ross is the best book boyfriend EVER! He is the sweetest, kindest, funniest, the most caring human being ever and the love he gives to people he cares about and always with the sun behind him, always trying to be the most optimistic, god I love him!! I want one, I need a Jackson Ross in my life!! And the way he sees and describes Nina??? Perfection, he just loves her so much it's just so damn beautiful and the way he treats her and just the way he is with her, makes me want to cry thinking about it! He's the best, I just can't find more words to describe him enough and make him justice but that's that! He also went through a lost that made him shut down the people closest to him but Nina never gave up and I just think that's so wonderful and strong because he was drifting away and she wasn't totally confident and she was so afraid to open up and be vulnerable but for Jackson?? She was there and pushed, in a good way, herself into him and made him realized she wasn't going anywhere and he could always count on her, for anything, anytime, anywhere and god thinking about the love they have for each other, makes me to fall in love and find the right person!!
This book had me giggling, smiling like a damn fool, crying, smiling again until my cheeks hurt and so many emotions I had to give it 5 stars, I don't care!! Nina and Jackson story was powerful and glorious and fascinating and beautiful and funny but also with a few struggles and some disappointments but it was a good journey and I will miss them so much!! I definitely will reread wtv I want to!! They mean the world to me oh my!
EVERYONE GO READ THEM PLEASE!!!
Because I love him.
I am so in love with him. With everything about him. The layers that make him who he is. The person who might need help but won’t ask for it. The sunshine for everyone else on a cloudy day. The man who never wants to see a gray sky and does everything he can to ensure others don’t have to. The man who doesn’t know what to do when the clouds come in but tries to fight them anyway.
There is nothing I wouldn’t do for him.
“Jackson, I don’t need you to be who you think I need. I just need you, the you that you are now and have always been. I love you so much.” I smile softly as shock flickers over his face. “I love you, Jackson, and I’ll still love you today and tomorrow and whenever you come back.”
“I don’t want to be. Not right now. Losing my dad was the worst part of the year. But my favorite part of this year would be you, Nina.”
“Yeah, well, mine would be you too,”
“I love you,” he says against my lips.
I smile. “I love you more.”