Reviewed by Jacqueline
COME BACK TO TEXAS by KK Hendin
ARC given in exchange for an honest review.
Come Back to Texas follows the story of Hayley and Nate, high school sweethearts from a small Texas town who break up when the going gets tough. Hayley moves on to college, Nate enlists. It’s been 3 years since they have seen each other but never forgot each other. Neither knows the other is still in love with them. Admittedly it took me awhile to get into this book at some points skimming through parts that seemed to go on too long. But about halfway through, my attention was regained and I started to “read” the book and follow the story again. I liked Nate’s story while he was laid up, the emotions he was going through, and finding out the lengths he would go to find Hayley and get her to come back to Texas. When the book ended I was happy that I had stuck with it and I like the way it ended.
BOOK BLURB
Everyone thought we’d be the ones who made it through high school. The ones who’d get married and stay married forever. The example of how young love can work.
We thought so, too.
Too bad life had other plans.
It’s been three years since Hayley and Nate broke each other’s hearts. Three years, and a lot has changed. Hayley’s a freshman in Bushwick University, and the only things keeping her sane are stress baking, and her a cappella group, Twelve Beats in a Bar.
Nate’s a Marine, stationed in Afghanistan. The only thing that’s keeping him sane is the last picture he has of him and Hayley, and the hope that maybe when the hell of deployment is over, he can find her again and apologize.
One explosion will change everything.
When a bomb kills all of Nate’s unit, leaving him missing a leg and eyesight in one eye, he’s sent back home to Texas. Texas, where he loved Hayley more than he could possibly imagine ever loving anyone else.
With seemingly endless amounts of free time and needing something to distract himself, Nate starts making YouTube videos, imploring Hayley to come back to him, and come back to Texas.
Hayley’s life is wrapped around the Beats, making sure she doesn’t flunk out of biology class, and babysitting Ohio’s smallest monster, Brandon. She doesn’t want to admit it, but she misses Nate more than anything.
It’s too bad she doesn’t know just how much he misses her, too…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KK Hendin’s real life ambition is to become a pink fluffy unicorn who dances with rainbows. But the schooling for that is all sorts of complicated, so until that gets sorted out, she’ll just write. Preferably things with angst and love. And things that require chocolate. She’s the author of the NA contemporaries HEART BREATHS and ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG.
THIS MUCH SPACE is the second book in her new series, TWELVE BEATS IN A BAR.
KK spends way too much time on Twitter (where she can be found as @kkhendin), and rambles on occasion over at www.kkhendinwrites.blogspot.com.
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