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This was a fun read that I didn’t want to put down and I thought about when wasn’t reading. The characters were fun, likable, and believable. It was fun to watch the relationship develop. We start off meeting Jake as he’s about to leave Alaska for Seattle to help out his ailing mom. He and Maya pass each other, each catching the other’s attention as Jake is about fly out and she’s just flying in.
We get to to know them both separately before they get to spend time together after Jake had to return to Kodiak to work. I found it easier to connect with Jake even though both Maya and Jake had challenging home situations. I really felt for him in dealing with his mom and her jerk boyfriend. Maya had her own issues with her distant, almost neglectful parents, and she struggled with the loss of her younger sister but it took a long time to really connect with her struggle.
Everything was described really well. It was easy to imagine what everyone and everything looked like. It was easy to picture everything that took place in Alaska, Washington, and California.
4.5 Stars
It’s on sale for $1.99 during the tour.
Book & Author details:
The Edge of You by Theresa DaLayne
Published by: Bloomsbury Spark
Publication date: September 25th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
He left home to escape. She made a new life out of guilt. Neither one expected to find love—but not even the Arctic can cool this steamy romance.
Maya knows she’s doing the right thing by moving to Alaska with her parents, but that doesn’t mean she has to be happy about it. Forced to give up a scholarship to a prestigious art school, she relocates to a Podunk town with one college the size of her high school cafeteria, all to help hold her family together after the death of her little sister. But a fresh start can only do so much.
Jake doesn’t like handouts and he certainly doesn’t need any distractions. Working on a salmon boat in Kodiak, Alaska is the only way to pay for his mother’s surgery back in the lower forty-eight. Juggling college courses and constant worry about his mother’s health, Jake couldn’t imagine anything else fitting into his life. That is, until he meets Maya, the sexy Californian artist who tints his world in technicolor.
But when Maya’s family starts to crumble and Jake’s mom takes a turn for the worse, will they drag each other down, or can they find what they were missing all along?
In this new adult romance, Theresa DaLayne paints a swoon-worthy story about life under the midnight sun, following your heart, and learning to live on the edge.
Theresa DaLayne is a north-south-east-western kind of girl with a quirky personality to match her nomad life. Born in California, she migrated to three different cities in Washington State, a tiny island in Alaska, North Carolina, and finally to the suburbs of Ohio where she currently lives with her husband, three kids, vegetarian cat, and her ungrateful fish.
Always on the lookout for a new story, Theresa is a shameless eavesdropper and will take anyone who provides inspiration and mold them into a character without a second thought. She enjoys writing both paranormal and contemporary stories, considering her mind wanders between worlds of fantasy while she’s forced to live in the real world, very much against her will.
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