From USA Today Bestselling author, Jane Anthony, comes a swoon-worthy, second-chance love story.Jesse Dylan was my best friend, my first kiss . . . and my first heartbreak.Watching him walk out of my life almost ruined me. But years have passed, and the pain of losing him has long since faded.Or so I thought.One glimpse in his cobalt eyes and those old wounds reopened. Jesse wants a second … wounds reopened. Jesse wants a second chance at what might have been, but it’s too late. I’m with someone new. Someone safe. Someone who can’t break me.
Yet the heart wants what it wants, and mine has only ever beat for the one who got away. I can’t deny him. I can’t resist him. He consumes my every waking thought and invades my dreams.
After all these years, I find myself wondering if I’ll ever truly stop loving the boy who taught my heart to hurt.
Jesse abandoned me when things got too difficult once.
I’m about to find out if lightning can strike twice.
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So, I have to admit, this is the first book I’ve read from Jane and it won’t be my last! I’m glad I read this one. I loved it. It was so freaking good. I loved the characters and their chemistry. I could totally relate to Wren. Amazing book.
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Love Wren and Jesse’s story. This book gives you all the feels and emotions. Love all the ups and downs.
Favorite quote: “Real love is ugly. It’s pain and tragedy. It breaks and burns and ends without warning.”
Unable to put it down as I continue to read my heart and emotions were thrown around as if caught up in a tornado.
Remembering your first kiss, love, heartbreak, and friendship for some can pull at your soul.
Jessie and Wren have such a strong connection and chemistry over the years but never seem to have the right timing, leave you wanting the Stars to align upon their perfect way.
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This story was about 2 best friends that got to have 1 kiss and didn’t get their chance at first. Years later, their chance comes and their story is endearing and hopeful. It gives hope that first loves, while may have been lost initially second chances can happen with happiness being the end game. Through ups and downs this couple shows you that sometimes love is strong enough to overcome demons. This book gave me tons of good feels!!!
This is the story of Jesse, and Wren, teenage first loves, Jess leaves Wren, and breaks her heart. Now years later, Jesse, and Wren are reunited, but Wren is engaged to someone else. But when Wren realizes that her heart belongs to Jesse, she breaks things off, and runs back to Jesse’s waiting arms. But will Jesse, keeps his promise, and never leave Wren again, or will his past past come back to destroy them again. Great book, it was emotional, romantic, intense, passionate, heartbreaking, and definite must read.
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Whoa! Jesse & Wren took me on a roller coaster of feels! I loved their chemistry, but it made me crazy how their timing wasn’t always perfect. The HEA made it all worthwhile! Gah! I can’t even find the words to say how much I enjoyed it!
I’m a sucker for second chance romance and Jane Anthony didn’t disappoint. Last First Kiss takes you on an emotional journey that you won’t soon forget.
Last First Kiss is a second chance at love story that took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. I loved the connection and chemistry between Jesse and Wren and how even after all the years apart they still had love for each other. The writing is perfect and the story is heartbreakingly beautiful.
It’s electric between Jesse and Wren. From the first moment they met they were friends. Then it evolved into something more.
This isn’t just a second chance romance, it’s much more.
All the banters between them is wonderful. The insecurity in Jesse makes it harder for them both, but in the end, all that matters is love.
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Wow… Jesse and Wren’s story certainly puts you through a gamut of emotions. Nearly everyone remembers their first kiss, first love, first heartbreak. This story portrayed all that in a raw, real way, that most have gone through in some way, at some time. Their connection and chemistry came through the pages, with the timing not always perfect, but that’s life. We all go through it looking for our own HEA. You’ll have to read and see if Jesse and Wren get theirs.
This book is dual POV, so you get inside both the main characters heads.
As always with Jane Anthony’s books this is another amazing read from the sexy as hell cover to the last page it’s an absolute page-turner.
It’s normally the little bird that flies away, but she didn’t, Jesse did, and now he’s back and more persistent than ever.
Jesse – You can’t help who you fall in love with, Wren’s wealthy and sometimes can make feel like you’re not good enough for that love when you come from the wrong side of the tracks, and mess-up royally. Will it be too late when you’ve blown your second chance.
Wren – Jesse has been the love of the life since a young age, then he left her heartbroken. She’s moved on, but it doesn’t feel like the love she felt for Jesse. He’s back and the old feelings are still there, on both sides. Then life throws a massive hurdle at them.
Will they survive this time? or will wrong decisions be made thinking they are the right ones?
Jesse and Wren were childhood friends, turned sweethearts. Jesse walked away leaving Wren devastated and alone. Years later he’s back and wanting a second chance but will Wren choose to leave the person she’s with to try again? A second chance romance at it’s best with plenty of heartache and good times too.
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Last First Kiss is heart wrenching but also heart warming read. Ms Anthony is an eloquent author who pulls your heart through the wringer!
Jesse is a strong alpha Male but with his own insecurities and flaws whilst Wren is a strong, gutsy girl. Theirs is a second chance romance and their trials to be together certainly pull on the ole heart strings as you will them on, in hope they get their HEA.
Truly Superb book!
Because I’m not an eloquent writer like Jane Anthony, I will try my best to get across how absolutely AWESOME this book is!!! I identified with so much in this story, which made me emotionally invested very quickly. I fell in love with Jesse and Wren for the flawed, sweet and truly lovable characters they became to me. My first really bad “ugly cry” had to do with something near and dear to my heart, and I’m tearing up just typing this. It felt like the author reached into my soul and extracted my heartbreak. I had to stop reading for the night, but I was right back at it the next night! The words were so descriptive it felt like I was right there experiencing all of it for myself. I loved EVERYTHING about this book, but I think my favorite part was how loving and tender Jesse was towards Wren when she had a migraine because I suffer from them too, and when I was married my husband would do the same for me, but instead of reading to me, he would make up stories and just keep talking until I fell asleep. So that reminded me of a time in my life that was special to me.
The angst, the “ugly cries” and the warm feelings (with a lot of other feelings mixed in) add up to one of the BEST books I’ve read all year!! (and I’ve read a lot)
I can promise you will absolutely LOVE this book as much as I do!! Jane Anthony definitely has a place in my top 5 favorite indy authors!! I haven’t read a book of her’s that I didn’t love!! So please do yourself a huge favor and buy this book! You can thank me later… Enjoy!!
Wren and Jesse put my heart through the ringer. There were times I wanted to smack both of them and asked them what were you thinking?!?! I’m glad that they finally figured it out and got their HEA.
Wren and Jesse have never had good timing on their side. Between separations, other people, and self doubt it just never seems to be the right time. Their love is definitely hard fought and self sabotaged many times throughout this book. They both needed to move past some things in their lives and minds in order to finally get to their own hea and it was amazing to read as it finally happened. This book was a great read but definitely had some tough parts to get through. Definently a story where I wanted to throw my kindle a few times but overall it was worth the heartache to see them get their stiff together finally and be happy.
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This book will pull up some emotions from readers that resonate with experiences we have probably all had. The characters will pull the reader in with that shared sense of knowing what they are going through and caring about the outcome. This isn’t an easy journey, but it will feel so real and it will touch the reader in a meaningful way.
Jesse and Wren were best friends who experienced that first kiss, first love, and first heartbreak when he walked away from what was happening between them. Needing to come back for family obligations, Jesse is well aware that their explosive feelings still exist. But Wren has moved on and found someone else who feels safer, can give her security, and won’t tear her heart apart. Everything inside her knows that Jesse was the one she loved so deeply from the beginning. Can she turn away from what she still feels for him? Can she risk it all to give him a second chance to prove he won’t walk out on her this time?
This story was so well-written and intense that you truly need to experience it from beginning to end. It is powerful and a true emotional rollercoaster that will affect you as you share what Jesse and Wren are fighting for. This is one book you won’t want to miss reading.
BEAUTIFUL BUMPY ride!
An attention grabbing bumpy ride of emotions that are impossible to escape and even harder to avoid the feels the beautiful writing puts you through. The chemistry is chaotic and frustrating through the grueling suspense but will be worth it all in the end with a heartwarming ending that makes this a perfect read that took me on a breathtaking rollercoaster ride with amazing twists and at times I couldn’t put it down.
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To be written out of a story you wanted so badly to be part of is how this tale begins. Leaving a broken girl with a damaged heart behind was not part of the plan, but circumstances didn’t allow for a HEA at that point for this couple. u2063
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Watching them rekindle their friendship and try to build their eventual relationship, will definitely have you playing cheerleader in hopes they figure out how to make it work. Talk about a swoon worthy book boyfriend. He makes you feel every drop of passion and possession. u2063
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Lots of unexpected things happen and they all come together so well in the end. This one runs you through a myriad of emotions that will surely have you nursing a minor book hangover.
‘Art is more than a picture on a canvas. It comes in many forms. Wren’s an artist in her own right. Her words are her medium. They fly from her fingers in a steady rhythm, pushing my pen to its limit. I fall into the magic spell she’s woven. It holds me hostage. My muse, my love. The only thing real I’ve ever painted, sketched, or drawn. She’s the color, the spirit that lives within me. She makes it happen. Without her, I’m nothing but a blank canvas.’
What does he tell us in his words? Is how he’s been in love with Wren since forever. Wren is a mix of emotions.
Now for the cons of this story… Wren is with another guy when Jesse shows back up after 5 years away. But when she breaks it off, Jesse is with another woman and he does cheat of the girlfriend with Wren. For me if I knew there was relationship outside of the main characters, I would not have read this story. And with the ex will lead for Wren big surprise that takes place from the middle of the story till the end.