Saturday, October 25, 2014

ARC Review: Come Back To Texas (Twelve Beats In A Bar #1)

Come Back To Texas (Twelve Beats In A Bar #1) by K.K. Hendin

Publisher: Not available, 2014
274 pages, kindle edition
Source: Purchased through Amazon and also given by Xpresso Book Tours
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
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…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 Haley 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…


My Review:
I Loved this book from both point of views and even through the flashbacks we got to see throughout the book, our characters are high school sweethearts who were separated by circumstances and it also has a military theme to it so it is simply perfect for me.

Hayley and Nate are our high school sweethearts who are totally devoted to one another one hundred percent up until certain circumstance had pushed them further apart. 3 years later Hayley is working and studying harder than ever in college, still wondering in the back of her head what has happened with Nate and is missing him terribly. Nate is overseas serving his country with the Marines until an incident leaves him possibly fighting a different kind of battle that needs to be overcome with faith and trust. And all Nate can envision is having Hayley in his arms and future and he beings a series of videos which he posts on to Youtube to try and win Hayley back but has he left it too little too late?

This is a romantic book  that captured me whole from the first line to the middle to the last full stop. This book will stay on my shelves and my kindle to be read again and again. I'm really looking forward to Book 2 A Different Kind of Fine and more books from this author.

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