Book Talk Review; Living With Regret

 Living With Regret by Lisa De Jong is now live! I was luck enough to receive a chance to read an review this amazing book!   

Title: Living with Regret (Rain #3)

Author: Lisa De Jong

Age Group: NA

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Designer: Mae I Design

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Blurb

I had my whole life mapped out. 

Perfect guy.

 Perfect friends.

 Everything was exactly the way I wanted it.

That was until that night--the one I can’t remember.

 It’s all my fault, and now the memories are all I have left of him.

 Of us.

My guilt drowns me until Sam Shea steps back into my life and helps me to the surface.

 He slowly opens my heart and crawls deep inside before I even realize what’s happening.

 I know I don’t deserve him.

While I’m trying to get used to my new life, pieces of that night slowly start to come back to me. 

Lies and secrets shatter everything I thought I knew.

Maybe I’m not the only one living with regret.

Review

 Like all of Lisa's books this one made me feel. A lot. 

She knows how to write these amazing books that capture you and bring out the best and worst emotions. 

Living With Regret is a book full of emotion. From the first page to the last, I was captured by the mystery surrounding the story, and while Rachel managed to piss me off more than once during the book I understood where she was coming from. 

I can't imagine being in the place that Rachel was in. Not being able to remember anything about one of the most important nights of your life. Living with the pain of wondering why. Blaming yourself for everything. 

 I admit, I saw some of the revelations before Rachel did, there were a few times I wanted to shake her and be like, how can you not see! It became apparent to me at a certain point, but Rachel brushed it aside. And it hurt. 

 I hurt me to watch her push Sam away, they were constantly at war with each other and their feelings for one and other. And it sucked. But it was good, it gave Rachel the time she needed to heal. 

 I think that Rachel knew more than she wanted to. She might not have remembered anything that happened that night, but she did have a subconscious that  hide the truth from her until she was ready to handle it. 

Somewhere deep inside Rachel knew, she just had to let herself grieve for her lost life, and she had to let herself learn what to be in love with someone really meant, before she was ready for the truth. 

Lisa is able to bring emotion into her books, she is able to make the books real. That is one reason why I love her books so much. They have so many things in them that can be real. 

In her acknowledgements Lisa thanks her family for letting her escape to be with her imaginary characters.  But these characters are anything but imaginary, they are real. They live off the pages of the book and make a connection within the reader that can't ever be thrust away. 

That is a sign of a truly amazing writer. I am so glad I was able to snag a copy and have to privilege to read and review this amazing book. 

I had to watch myself, because there were so many amazing quotes in this book, I've had to limit myself to pick the top three.

*Quote- 

"If you live everyday like it matters, like what you do or say really means something, there should never be regret." -Rachel

"Loving a person doesn't always make them the best forever choice." -Mrs. Clark (Rachel's mother)

"I think we get caught up in getting to know everyone around us and forget that we may not know ourselves well enough to know anyone else." -Rachel

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About The Author

Lisa De Jong is a wife, mother and full-time number cruncher who lives in the Midwest. 

Her writing journey involved insane amounts of coffee and many nights of very little sleep but she wouldn't change a thing. 

She also enjoys reading, football and music. 

She is the author of When It Rains, After the Rain, Plastic Hearts and Glass Hearts.

Contact: lisadejongwrites@gmail.com, @LisaDeJongBooks

For Lisa's Author Talk go here: http://realtalkbooktalk.blogspot.com/2014/01/book-talk-lisa-de-jong.html

For When It Rains Book Talk go here: http://realtalkbooktalk.blogspot.com/2014/01/book-talk-review-when-it-rains.html

For Changing Forever's Book Talk go here: http://realtalkbooktalk.blogspot.com/2014/06/changing-forever-review.html