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Sometimes a book comes along at exactly at the right time, it unapologetically knocks you on your arse, it takes you on a journey that at times leaves you gasping for breath, your heart strumming through your chest, it makes you question everything you thought you knew and leaves you perfectly sated and yet desperate for more. To say More Than Enough blew me away would be an understatement, this book unequivocally stripped me bare, it's message one of quiet simplicity, McLean asks the reader to check their preconceived notions at the door, instead begging them to join her characters for their journey, she tells the story that Dylan needed to tell, I was enraptured from the opening page, my mind captivated instantly.
Dylan has always been the ninja of the More crew, #TeamSilence a long running joke, the quiet man who has always stood back from the spotlight, the man who had no inclination to stand out, the man who was so adamant that he wanted his life to count for something that he enlisted to serve his country, picking up and leaving regardless of what he was leaving behind.
"But it is relevant. Because is and was is the difference between time standing still, and time moving forward"
There is a heroism to Dylan, his need to serve and protect, to provide shelter to those in the eye of their own storm, where Dylan was always comfortable to be a player in a larger ensemble More Than Enough is his chance to not only tell his story but to shine.
"There’s no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence."
There's a line in both the story and the blurb, about the sound of silence... and anyone who has ever battled depression, anxiety or PTSD will say with absolute certainty that there is no noise louder, no sound more haunting than silence, with its double entendre of quieting a raging mind, and yet allowing the voices in ones mind to run rampart. While More Than Enough touches on depression and it's far reaching effects, it's also a valiant story of survival, about love, and forgiveness. Depression affects over 20% of all people here in Australia, and as someone who is not ashamed to admit to suffering from it I've often struggled to describe what it feels like, but McLean writes so eloquently that she was able to put those feelings into words, when she writes
"The never-ending thoughts tormenting your mind, bringing you to your knees and kicking you while your down"
I felt every ounce of helplessness there, every bit of pain, of longing for the world to swallow them whole, these moments of heart breaking clarity, were juxtaposed with moments of swoon worthy romance, where the characters are just young and in love and trying to find a way to just be, when they aren't fighting their own battles to find themselves or their way to each other.
"Because....I plan on loving you like he did"
If it seems like I'm being deliberately evasive when it comes to the heroine in this story and focusing my review on Dylan I am. While the More gang features heavily here, More Than Enough is very much about Dylan's journey and his journey to becoming the man he always wanted to be. McLean never shies away from heart wrenching emotion, never approaches the story with kid gloves, and yet never exploits the characters pain for the sake of eliciting an emotional response from the reader. There's this beautiful message here that reminds the reader that emotions and feeling is okay, that admitting you need help doesn't make you weak. That sometimes you need to allow yourself to fall apart so you can rebuild yourself stronger and more aware. McLean writes strong heroines, hero's that aren't afraid to show emotion, she writes about friends who become family, and the craziest kind of mayhem that ensues when you open yourself up to chances and in turn life.
"All emotions are valid, Dylan. Regardless of whether you think it's right or wrong to feel them, they exist because they're real."
The beauty of story telling takes place when the author takes the reader on the journey that the character wants to go on, it's not always the journey the reader wants to take. More Than Enough is breathtaking for so many reasons, but most of all, it's sheer beauty, it's unrelenting power comes from the fact that this is the story Dylan needed to tell.
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As always, Jay McLean's words are perfection
More Than Enough revolves around two characters who are struggling with a battle of silence and numbness... “Nightmares are real and they’re raw and they cause me to plead with my body to keep my eyes open because a single moment of darkness creates the hell in my mind.” To forget the past and the mistakes they’ve made… “I’m not going to lose her. Not again. She means too much to me.” They both have a deep history, one that has molded them and made them who they are, made them question the choices in their life and their worth, especially their worth to each other... “We breathe through the pain, apart but together, and we hold each other. We hold on to the only thing that makes sensing in an otherwise messed-up world and we allow ourselves to hurt and to grieve and to love and to forgive.” I fell in love with both characters. They stole my heart with their grief and story, their loyalty and love. Dylan completely lives up to the “heart and soul” man that we’ve always known him to be. I loved how much this man of silence had to say. He bared his heart and made the reader just adore him. He proved that when it comes to the love of his life, nothing would stop him from showing her she was more than enough. And she equally loved him with everything she had. As for who “she” is….well she’s Dylan’s other half, the one that makes him whole. She proves that no matter our past mistakes, there’s always room for redemption. There’s always a way out. She was real and raw and honest even when it wasn’t pretty. They both needed saving and neither gave up on the other. They struggled to be each other’s glue until they finally pieced themselves together…to find the calm, to find the horizon, to find their forever. Besides the two main characters, the More gang is back and back to all their Mayhem!!! First let me say, all the characters, I want them to all be my best friends. In this book, I just fell in love with them even more. But mostly, Jake...he’s just Mr. Perfect. I didn’t think I could love him more and I know this is Dylan’s book but Jake really stood out and stole my heart again. Swoon! And the Mayhem was some of my favorite parts. I was in a constant state of giggle fits reading about their Operation Mayhems. I loved it! I hated saying goodbye to the gang (I really hope this isn’t it!) but it was such a good way to go out with a bang…or a pie! As usual, Jay pulled out all the feels. This was her longest book and I loved every minute of it, even when my heart was breaking. I wasn’t so emotionally exhausted or torn apart or wrecked that I couldn’t start another book. I just felt GOOD. I was so happy with all these words and feels that I just didn’t WANT to start another book. I wanted to let it sink in, to remember and feel it all, to smile and remember the good times. “And even though we know the clock is ticking on our current time together…we don’t talk about it. We don’t look at the clock. We’re having too much fun.”
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