I haven’t seen him since that one summer.He was the boy playing guitar. I was the girl painting pictures.Now he’s suddenly back in my life, but this time it’s obviously different. We still know nothing of each other. And yet I’m in love all over again.He makes me laugh. He makes me forget. He makes me feel like everything will be okay.But some things in life maybe aren’t meant to be. Especially … things in life maybe aren’t meant to be.
Especially when I find out his darkest secret and he finds out I’m the reason my ex is dead.
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Darlin’ – this is a 90,000 word slow burn friends to lovers romance novel featuring a wild rock star and a grieving painter just trying to hide from her life… read, review, and never stop loving life.
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I really cannot praise this book enough. It has everything you want and more in a novel. Jaxson Kidman just keeps on raising the bar with his writing. Getting Over You is his best work. Ever. Josie and Crosby will stay with you always. Their individual stories are devastating but as they try to come to terms with them can they build a new, happier story together? Loss, grief, pain, anger, all laced through with love and need. I cried a lot reading this book. I could feel the emotions of the characters as I read. I was right there with them. The secondary characters are perfectly weaved into the story and I absolutely adore one of them in particular. Another absolute masterpiece by an author who connects to you through his writing with seeming ease. 5 Stars isn’t nearly enough. Read this book, you will not be sorry.
This book! I can’t begin to describe how powerful this love story is. I have read just a little about the book and I knew right away this book was going to affect me and my heart strings will be pulled. How can you get over a past trauma? How can you stop grieving? Do you ever stop grieving? Will you ever stop feeling guilty? Josie, it’s okay to still have feelings for a loved one. Everyone grieve in their own way and in their own time. This book hit so close to home. I felt the grieving and hurt and feeling broken throughout the book. This book will affect you and pull at your heart. Make sure you have tissues nearby. Jaxson, I’m truly in awe of your writing.
We all have a few one-click authors and this is one of mine, I don’t need to read blurbs or make a decision based on a cover. I haven’t been let down yet and I’d say this book is one of his best. Another emotionally charged book and the main characters are not only broken but flawed in their way of thinking. It takes both of their tattered and bruised souls to heal each other’s broken hearts. They guide each other from the darkness into the light.
Crosby sits on his balcony playing his guitar and watching the girl next door sit and paint. Although he looks for her at school he can never find her and then she’s gone. He takes looking after his little sister seriously, until the worst day of his life. Losing himself in grief and pain, his life will never be the same. He chooses to punish himself by closing himself off to those who matter.
Josie sat painting, watching the boy next door sit on his balcony playing guitar. They never met, didn’t exchange names or talk. Then she had to return home. She finds herself caught up in a family which is dysfunctional, each generation keeps making the same mistakes. All she has left is grief, painting and Meadow her niece. Josie sneaks out to smoke in her car because Meadow hates it. Who knew her saviour would come running over the horizon.
Amazing read!! Once again this author has given us a raw, emotional read that will have you turning pages until the end. The characters are real, the emotion, thoughts and actions are real, it’s like you are in the story watching it unfold. Don’t hesitate, you won’t regret it. A solid 5+ stars.
An emotionally beautifully written story
Crosby and Josie’s story grabs you from the beginning and brings you on such a journey of two people that had such heartbreak. Their story was so well written and they way he brought these characters together and told their story was tragically beautiful.
Even the best intentions can backfire and change your life completely. One tragic mistake would change Crosby, and his life, forever.
Crosby is haunted by a past he can never escape. He pays for it by punishing himself on a daily basis.
Josie is getting by. She’s had her fair share of fate, taking out it’s twisted pleasure on her, and now she lets it have free reign.
Josie is minding her own business when she meets Crosby. This guy is ripped, gorgeous and sweaty. They’ve met before, in her previous life, the one she was in control of…well, sort of.
Crosby wrote songs he deemed worthy of someone else’s voice. Not his. Josie painted beautiful paintings, but kept them to herself. Both numb and riddled with guilt over circumstances beyond their control. Maybe they could have done something to change the outcome on the day everything went to s**t. Maybe not. But just maybe together, they could heal.
GRITTY, INTENSE AND POWERFUL ! ! !
AMAZING, ORIGINAL STORY WITH WELL WRITTEN CHARACTERS THAT COME TO LIFE AND DRAW YOU INTO THEIR WORLD ! A RAW, EMOTIONAL JOURNEY THAT WILL TAKE YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE ! JAXSON’S WRITING WILL LEAVE YOU TOTALLY CAPTIVATED AND WANTING MORE ! I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK ! ! ! AWESOME FROM BEGINNING TO END ! ! !