“I never saw Annie Daschle coming...”
Have you guys ever experienced an asthma attack? And if you haven’t, have you ever wondered what it felt like? I know weird question alert. Just bare with me, I promise there’s a point to this. There are asthma attacks you can feel coming, like your body just knows, and there are asthma attacks that sneak up on you out of no where. And honestly, this book has the feeling of both. Point blank, basically, the important thing about an asthma attack that pretty much IS this book in every way, is that moment before the attack hits. When everything around you goes silent, and your body is trying to tell you something. Then you heart rate increases showing know sign of slowing down. Your breathing starts to become light, then choppy, then heavy. And the only thing to stop it is the aid of something stronger, you know? Something bigger. Something IMPORTANT.
Living Out Loud *screams* everything I just used to describe an asthma attack. But in a good way, 100% NOT in a bad way. Because this book came out of left field and handed me my a** without me knowing it was coming. Because I can’t tell you guys how many times I lost my breath, and *felt* my heart in the depths of every beat, as I stumbled and crashed through this book. This is THAT Book. The book everyone absolutely NEEDS to read. The book that is so silently damaging in the way that it stays with you long after you finish it.
I can sit here and talk about the affects of this book forever. How well and intricately beautiful is was written. How Staci’s Austen inspired books always give off that sweet nostalgic, yet timeless feeling of everlasting love. But I would keep you here forever if I did that...
Greg Brandon is that character who had no problem where he was at in his life. He was happy. He has a wonderful tight knit family that he adored with everything in him. And friends who rounded out his world in such a positive light at his dream job. He was perfectly ok with where he was at.
But...
*Just* ok.
Until Annie.
”It was maybe only a heartbeat, a breath, but it felt like that second stretched out in a long thread between us.”
”But, out of nowhere, she would invade my mind like cigarette smoke. I’d wave thoughts of her away with a dour twist of my lips, all while jonesing for just one drag.”
“The knowledge that it was chemical, that it had no depth or roots, didn’t matter. Something in me recognized something in her, and that was that.”
And then there’s Annie. Sweet, adventurous Annie. Annie with the heart condition she didn’t deserve. Annie with her family as her rock behind her. Annie who would do anything to Live Out Loud for her father.
And then the Annie she became after Greg Brandon happened...
“Because for a moment, my pain was behind me in the coolness of my shadow and the whole world was spread out in front of me like a feast of possibility. And I would take a taste of everything I could.”
“And the sense of connection, forged by sharing an experience so profound to both of us, was so strong and alluring, I yielded to the heady desire for more.”
”They weren’t eyes of a friend or a boss or a big brother or uncle; those eyes sent a spark of heat through my chest and cheeks and pinched the air from my lungs.”
The saying, “timing is everything”, has never been as strong as it is in this book. Sometimes being silently enamored can be mistaken for something completely on the opposite side of the spectrum.
And when that happens, well...
”All things had a line that, once crossed, could not be stepped back over. And I had reached that line, passed it without realizing until I looked down. But instead of finding myself in her arms, I was pressed against the glass, the separation between us as thin as it was impenetrable.”
Sometimes, in every sense of the word, the chance encounter far beyond too late.
Get ready for Staci Hart to tilt your world on its axis. You will become breathless, and feel your heart more than you’ve ever FELT it before while reading a book, numerous times. Get ready to read your new top fav of 2018.
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Staci Hart is and will always be my absolute favorite, no book is better than the other for me, but this will always have a very special place in my heart, there is no one who could re tell Jane Austen’s story in such compelling and emotional way.💕
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