When I’m Gone

Ok so I really like this series (Rosemary Beach by Abbi Glines) and I really liked this book. I just have one big pet peeve. I understand that this is just fantasy and its a young adult romance so basically its a tell a novella, but I really dislike when the biggest hurdle in the couples storyline could have been avoided by just asking one simple question. The male and female lead go through the story talking to each other and getting to know one another, revealing big secrets, and sharing moments. Then one little text is seen on a phone and instead of asking about it its deleted and there is a bid scene made and a break up with no explanation. Then the couple suffers estranged for months (several chapters) until they finally go oh yah hey what was that text about? Then they are happily back together. It just seems like a lazily way to create drama for the sake of drama itself with no substance or even staying true to the characters personalities and previous exchanges. Anyway as you can tell its a plot twist that I don’t care for at all. This is a full length book with a cliff hanger that leads into another book so you are warned if you don’t like that. Some stuff gets resolved so you are not left hanging completely. Please read this series in order its better that way. This books has subject matter that may be triggers for some people it is handled pretty well with only a little detail and then its just a past situation that the lead female character struggles with. I refuse to read books with fully described rape scenes in them. If it is just touched upon so that you understand the mind set of the character than I can handle that but otherwise I prescreen my reading material to stay away from that. This author handled that subject matter very delicately and she handled the lead characters budding romance, flirtations, and steamy scenes well putting enough time to pass to allow for some healing and distance from that situation. Once again I really loved Mase’s character and Reese is a sweet girl and I liked this book it just touches on a few things that you need to be made aware of its a definitely darker than some of the others in the series. This is Mase and Reese’s story. Mase is a sweet and sexy cowboy and the son of the most famous lead singer of a rock band but he doesn’t want that lifestyle. He lives on a ranch in Texas and enjoys a quiet life. He stumbles on a beautiful girl while out of town visiting his sister and falls for her immediately. Reese is surprised when a half naked man asks her to be quiet while she is at work. He looks at her with desire and she likes what she sees but she has a learning disability and a lot of dark baggage in her past that makes a relationship impossible. Mase is persistent and wants what’s his at any cost. He will fight for her. This book was worth the price and the read!

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS – Reese reminded me a lot of Della, sweet & innocent, did not come from money, not used to rubbing shoulders with the rich rock star kids in Rosemary Beach, a past that left her shattered. Reese has two issues – the first one Mase is helping her deal with & that is a learning disability. Reese\’s rotten parents have convinced her she is just plain stupid, an idea encouraged by cruel kids until she runs away from home. The second issue is the reason Reese doesn\’t have a family, all alone in Rosemary Beach, getting help from her neighbor Jimmy who gets her connected to his friends so Reese can support herself. You have to respect Reese a great deal for finding something she can do to survive with her limited skills & abilities. At first it might feel like Mase is treating her like a charity case, always bailing her out & helping her. But Reese has never been shown kindness & she eats it up! She can\’t believe though that Mase would want a broken women who can\’t share her body with him, a girl he can\’t take to dinner or out with his friends. She couldn\’t be more wrong, Mase is hooked! \”I\’m completely obsessed with you. You\’re all I see anymore, Reese. When you hurt, it rips me apart. When you\’re happy, I feel like I own the effing world.\” The entire appeal for me is Mase\’s words – when he touches her he makes sure to be sweet & kind & a bit dirty, letting Reese know that this is Mase with her at all times. And his words are desperate, how he almost begs to touch & taste her & dang, I have never been so turned on in my life! Reese is curvy & beautiful & hot & Mase sounds like he\’s going to die if he can\’t be with her, just to hold, just to kiss! Reese is still working through issues in her past but now she has Mase. \”I don\’t regret one thing. For every bad thing that happened, I\’ve been rewarded with something even more beautiful than all the bad in return.\” I wish though that their love story would end right here since I adored them. Unfortunately we go on to more battles for them & I\’m not ready to read angst for these two.

So to be honest Mase isn\’t the normal guy I\’d be drawn to off the bat so I haven\’t really put much thought into him so far. I\’m much more of a Rush or Tripp type girl. However, after reading this book Mase has bumped Tripp from his second place. Spoilers ahead: I didn\’t expect to care for Mase but I love him! I loved the way his mother described him to Reese and I love him for wanting to fight for her too. I was so glad when Reese finally decided to fight for Mase. I could help but have a huge smile plastered on my face. Reese is definitely not the typical Rosemary Beach girl. I can\’t even imagine the things she went through in her past. I was glad when she finally started to let Mase in because I knew he\’d be good to and for her. When Mase\’s mom showed up to get her to fight for Mase I was about to yell \’Yes!\’ but I didn\’t I was so excited that she was going after him. These two deserve each other and all the happiness but I don\’t like the ending where her dad shows up. I\’m afraid he\’ll ruin everything! Ugh! My last thought is the best line ever in a book \”God bless America and Mase Manning\’s ass\”

I have to say that I LOVE this series, every book has been amazing and I love everything from the characters to the style of writing; its one of my most favourite series to read (and re-read at times). Mase\’s story is no different and it was a really great read & I couldn\’t put it down. Defo another 5 star book. The only thing that reeeeeaaaally frustrates me about this series is the way the stories now seem to be spreading over 2 shorter books instead of a full length singular one. The prices of these books (although worth every penny) are a lot more expensive that other kindle books with the same amount of pages. I really wish she would keep the story over just one book and charge more for it if need be because its sooooooo frustrating as a reader to have to keep waiting to finish the story of just one character – humph!! Thats my only moan though – great series

Another 5* stonking read! Oh Mase….. What an absolutely great specimen of a man. He is all Alpha, but not afraid to show his softer side. He gives his time to his friends whole heartedly and when \’The One\’ comes along – well nothing can stop him. Reese was a sweet girl, had a crap childhood, dreadful guardians because they were not parents! Glad she end up in Rosemary Beach, after all if all the rich kids kept marrying the other rich kids, what a dreadful place Rosemary Beach would turn into. New blood is a godsend to that place. The newcomers breath new life into Rosemary Beach. If there were ever two people so right for one another, it was definitely Mase and Reese. Now don\’t get me wrong, Rush & Blaire; Grant &Harlow; Woods & Della and now Tripp & Bethy are all perfect for each other too. It was the best to catch up with them all, the girls are who you want as your \’besties\’ and the boys, well apart from all being Adonis\’s are really great guys to. Mase & Reese also fall into the same categories as the others, but they are destined NOT to live in Rosemary Beach. I loved how Reese tried to spare her feelings by trying not to fall for Mase, but NO way was that going to happen. He was her Guardian Angel, she just didn\’t know it yet. Mase was a goner, when he was rudely awoken by the cleaner, he immediately wanted to help her, even if his first thoughts were slightly lustful. I\’m glad Reese had Jimmy , what a fabulous man he is, a great friend to have in your corner. He even tried to inform Reese to guard her heart, but once he realised Mase\’s feelings for Reese, even Jimmy admitted defeat. Mase was really patient with Reese for her every stop. They were both really good for each other and when Reese flipped over the text she read, I was \’yeah go girl! you read that on your own\’ then i was \’oh crap\’ no don\’t read it – too late! the damage wa already done. For the next couple of months they both went through life existing, I was so glad for Mama Colt, she was there for Mase, but equally she was looking out for Reese. Loved the final couple chapters, seeing how good Reese and Mase are together, then Bloody Hell!!! Where is the next book, I need to read all about her papa like NOW!

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