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Letters From Jayson

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Synopsis from the Author’s Website:
Lindsey is ready for a change. Shallow relationships and a dead-end job have left her longing for more, so when a rare but difficult opportunity presents itself for a promotion and temporary change of scenery, she jumps at the chance to try something new.
Jayson wants a quiet place to finish his current project. With one missed deadline behind him, he doesn’t have time for distractions and interruptions.
When Lindsey temporarily moves into a beach house owned by her best friend’s fiancé, she finds that it’s already occupied… by Jayson. To him, she’s a nuisance and a distraction from his work. To her, he’s a conceited and bossy obstacle. Both annoyed at this unavoidable situation, they agree to make the most of their predicament and try to co-exist in peace until their work is done. But Lindsey and Jayson quickly learn there is a fine line between love and hate. Is it really possible to love someone that makes you so crazy?
Review:

Lindsay is a journalist, fed up with being passed over for promotions that are given to the male chauvinists she works with. She finally confronts her boss not caring if it means losing her job. Worried that she’ll quit, he sends her on an assignment to Florida to interview the reclusive best-selling author, Jackson King. He knows full well she’ll encounter many challenges along the way.

Lindsay’s best friend’s fiancé offers her his place to stay but he fails to tell her she’ll have a roommate, Jayson. Neither one is happy to have to share the same space, but they tolerate each other by communicating via letters. Their love story begins.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It’s funny and it’s a light-hearted. I have read many self-published books but not one as good as this one. Characters are well developed and the storyline is fairly solid. You will want to read it non-stop.

Highly recommend.

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Loved this book. Easy quick read for me and I read it on a long plane ride from the Caribbean to England. Author did a great job of developing the relationships in the book and I would definitely recommend.

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While reading this book, I can't help but compare this to the Korean TV series Full House. The similarity in both the male and female protagonists sharing the same house and that's where their love story began is what came up to my mind, that is why I compared this novel to the latter. In spite of that similarity, this book really entertained me because of how funny and cute Lindsay and Jayson's love story is. Probably my only complaint is that Jayson's letters are few and I think the author should have added a lot more.

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This was my first book by Hale and I can guarantee it won't be my last. Letters From Jayson was very well written. The plot was unpredictable and she had well-defined characters. The love/hate relationship in this Rom Com was just what it needed to be with their banters. I laughed out right more than once. Their way of flirting is probably my favorite though. Short notes shoved under bedroom doors and the bickering, This was just a terrific read that everyone needs to add to their lists.

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1.5 stars, courtesy of NetGalley

There was a strong start where Amy Hale establishes that our heroine is feisty and smart and in rotten circumstances as she defends herself against workplace sexual harassment. Now, any normal gal would be waving the middle finger as she slams the door on her way out, but Lindsey gets suckered into accepting 1 writing assignment from her boss instead to prove she deserves the respect she thinks she deserves. The circumstances are implausible right away, but I read for fantasy and I roll with it.

The story's weakness is greatly in structure and set-up. It's clear that the author has outlined what she wants -- the meet cute where heroine is in bikini, mistaken identity, the slapstick via a huge fall and clam chowder mess, the whoopsie where he gets to see her naked, etc. -- and she wrote towards it, but it felt so forced and unnatural. Honestly, it felt like a very bad sitcom. It didn't feel natural and organic. Sadly, the efforts breathed very little life into the characters or the emotional arc in the story (what little emotional arc there was).

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I would like to thank Smashwords and Loveswept for gifting me this book in exchange for an honest review.

Despite what I have read in other reviews I quite liked this book.

I thought this was a fun, easy book to read that was simply for enjoyment. It didn’t need the angst or the big drama’s that are in most books. It was just a fun HEA.

The plot was predictable but I guess I was in a mood that it was fine to just have something enjoyable to read.

I really liked the main characters. Lindsey is pretty feisty and Jayson is crabby but some how they worked. I loved the banter between them and I really think it added to the book. The letters were the best. I thought it was the sweetest thing that he would apologize in letters and they just have playfulness between them. I think my only complaint, and I don’t want to say complaint is how fast they were telling each other that they loved each other. That seemed a little unrealistic to me.

Otherwise, if you are looking for a fun, quick rom com then I would recommend this book.

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Bio:

Lindsey is ready for a change.

Shallow relationships and a dead end job have left her longing for more, so when a rare, but difficult opportunity presents itself for a promotion and temporary change of scenery, she jumps at the chance to try something new.

Jayson wants a quiet place to finish his current project. With one missed deadline behind him, he doesn’t have time for distractions and interruptions.

When Lindsey temporarily moves into a beach house owned by her best friend’s fiancé, she finds that it’s already occupied… by Jayson. To him, she’s a nuisance and a distraction from his work. To her, he’s a conceited and bossy obstacle . Both annoyed at this unavoidable situation, they agree to make the most of their predicament and try to co-exist in peace until their work is done. But Lindsey and Jayson quickly learn there is a fine line between love and hate. Is it really possible to love someone that makes you so crazy?

Letters From Jayson is heartfelt comedy about finding love and forgiveness in the midst of chaos.

Review:

This was probably the cutest love story I've ever read. Lindsey is sick of the men in her job looking down at her and using inappropriate advances to keep her tame. So she blows up on her boss and threatens to sue for sexual harassment. Her boss, trying to keep his own nose clean gives her a big task of getting an interview with a famous reclusive author. If she can get the interview, her luck will change.

So Lindsey sets off for Florida, armed with keys to a friend's beach house, ready to make the interview happen. But what happens when she hits a few bumps along the way? Mainly Jayson... the guy also staying in her beach house.

It wasn't surprising or anything. I guessed right away who the reclusive author was, but regardless of predictably I still enjoyed it. I couldn't stop reading as each chapter progressed.

The epilogue was probably the cutest part of all. Everything sealed up nicely with a neat bow. I look forward to checking out some of Amy's other works.

*I was given an Advanced Reader Copy by netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

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