Blog Tour Review: Nobody’s Angel – K.T. Wells

Nobody’s Angel by K. T. Wells
Series:
Release Date:  December 15, 2011
Publisher:   Boroughs Publishing Group
Page Count:
Source:  Pump Up Your Book Tours
Buy the book at: Amazon 

Twenty years ago Jake and Angie were the couple everyone wanted to be. When they split two halves of the same heart broke. With their high school reunion looming, will they find their way back to each other or continue to be haunted by what was? An ensemble of friends is pulling for them, but will it be enough?

Jake and Angie’s twentieth high school reunion sets the perfect stage for their lifelong friends to reunite the former sweethearts. Major roadblock – they have to trick Angie into coming home after twenty years. An elaborate ruse ensues at the same time they work on browbeating Jake into attending.

Maneuvering through emotional minefields rates a 10 for difficulty level, particularly when Angie lives the maxim: Time does not heal all wounds. And Jake? Check the Wiki pic next to Pride comes before the fall. Yep, that’s him tripping all over himself year after year.

But the firm conviction that these two were meant to be together propels a cast of quirky, determined friends into action. When tragedy derails the best laid plans, will Jake and Angie’s love rise to the occasion?

Every once in a while I discover a book that speaks to me.  It has a wonderfully written heart-wrenching storyline, engaging dialogue, a hero and heroine who have the odds stacked against them and a supporting cast that feels like your best friends.  This was one of those books (and for the record, there have only been 2 in the past 5 years…this being one of them).

Jake has a middle school crush on Angie and couldn’t think of a way to get her to notice him.  When she does notice him, in high school, it’s only as a friend.  But then by the beginning of their senior year of high school, the best thing happens to Jake and he’s dating Angie.  He loves her with all his heart, but he’s also scared about the feelings and what that means.

Angie may have played hard to get with Jake, but she was absolutely in love with him and knew that he was her life.  She was planning her future and never for a minute doubted what she thought were plans that both she and Jake wanted.  When she finds out that Jake lies to her and changes their plans without talking to her, she’s devastated.

This teenage heartbreak molds both Angie and Jake as they move into adulthood.  Neither of them are able to hold meaningful relationships with anyone, tainted by what happened between them as teenagers.  Angie, who is still best friends with her high school best friend, won’t even travel to her old hometown because of the reminders.

It takes the skillful deception of their friends and one goddaughter to bring Jake and Angie face to face.  While things don’t go as planned, reading what unravels between the two of them is riveting…to the point you have to wonder what else they’re going to have to deal with.

Wonderfully written, with engaging characters and an emotionally charged storyline.