RELEASE DAY BLITZ
COAST (Kick Push 2) – by Jay McLean
Series: The Road #3, Kick Push #2
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Blurb
One life-changing summer.
One boy.
The boy.
The boy who offered me safe touches and heart-stopping smiles – smiles he shared with his son.
We filled our days with porch-step kisses,
filled our ears with laughter,
filled our hearts with love.
Deep, soul-aching, desperate love.
But love is misleading.
It’s an invisible, fleeting moment.
Somewhere between false adoration and pure hatred comes an emotion, a vulnerable need, a single desire.
It lives within the ones who miss it, who crave it,
who know better than to expect it.
Love is relentless.
Even when that love turns to hate, turns to loathing,
turns to pain.
Love should heal you.
But it can also break you.
Believe me, I know…
Because I’m Becca Owens – a broken girl…
…And he’s Josh Warden – the boy who broke me.
Review
Coast
That’s the ultimate goal in life – to work through the bullshit by kicking and pushing and then reap the benefits of the work by being able to breathe easy and soar.
Josh Warden has been kicking and pushing ever since he was left as a single father as a teenager and turned away by the very people who were supposed to love and support him unconditionally. One kick at a time, though, and with the selfless nature of a woman who becomes Josh and Tommy’s lifeline, Josh finds his stride, and regardless of what he faces, he’ll continue to grind…continue to get his bearings in order to provide and protect his son.
Along the way, Josh meets his emerald eyes girl, and together, they continue to kick and push past the painful memories…past the fear…past other people’s selfish actions. But on their way to coasting, Josh and Becca nosedive, shattering the love between them and putting them both on the rails, pushing them away from one another in order to survive.
That’s where Jay McLean leaves readers in Kick, Push, and even though it crushed my heart, I understood why Josh and Becca needed time apart; because in order for them to truly be able to coast…to truly be able to love one another without their broken and tormented souls weighing them down, they needed to choose to be happy and firetruck the rest and that couldn’t happen without Becca healing her past and preventing it from taking away her future – the one she wants with her skater boy and the little boy who owns her heart.
I have to admit…I was praising and cursing Jay as I read Coast. My mind knew that it had to be a process for Josh and Becca to reunite, but my heart demanded a fast reunion! Jay sets up Coast in parts, which truly illustrates the healing process and the time it takes for both of them to come to terms with everything that happened. Becca needs to work on herself and achieve her personal goals before being able to reach for Josh again, and Jay gives Becca that time, and we as readers take that self-realization journey with her and are able to see her figure out who she is and what she wants and needs in her life. There was never a doubt of Josh and Becca’s love for each other, but Becca’s perception of love has always been twisted due to her mother’s actions, so in order for her to heal…in order for her to embrace Josh’s love, she needed to learn to love herself and accept who she is inspite of how/why she became that way.
Coast is very much Becca’s story; Josh plays a pivotal role, which he should, but Becca is the one who needs to push herself and find where she, Josh, and Tommy can exist together, seeing one another through the lens of love, forgiveness, and compassion.
I loved Becca’s journal entries – they were raw and cathartic, exposing her tormented soul but also allowing her a means to process everything that’s happened in her life and to reconcile her past in order to move on to her future.
Jay McLean’s stories always leave a lasting impression on me because the issues that are explored and the emotions that are conveyed speak to all that life offers people on a continual basis. There’s never been a book by Jay that hasn’t captured more heart, but Becca and Josh’s duet will forever remain in my top 10 reads of all time because their story shows life’s reality and how people cope, not sugar coating anything because ultimately, there’s going to be a hell of a lot of kicking and pushing in order to figure out how to coast, and even when coasting is obtained, there’s still an uphill battle because that’s how life works; people just need to furiously fight to find the place where the land meets the sea for them and those who mean everything to them.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
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Author Bio
Jay is an avid reader, writer, and most of all, procrastinator. When she’s not doing any of those things, she can be found running after her two little boys, or devouring some tacky reality TV show. She writes what she loves to read, which are books that can make her laugh, make her smile, make her hurt, and make her feel. For publishing rights (Foreign & Domestic) Film, or television, please contact her agent, Erica Spellman-Silverman, at Trident Media Group.
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