Review: Snared by L.L. Collins (Jaded Regret #2)


Note: This ARC was provided by Ardent PRose in exchange for an honest review.

"Why me?" 
"Why you? Beau, why not you? When I'm around you, I feel alive. You make me smile. I think about you every second we aren't together. When you touch me, I tingle about you every second we aren't together. When you touch me, I tingle from head to toe. When you watch me, even when you think I can't see you, it's like I'm floating on a cloud. You do all those things to me."


Snared is the second novel in the Jaded Regret contemporary rock romance series from bestselling author L.L. Collins but was one that I read prior to reading the series starter, Sentenced. So yes, this can be read as a standalone--though I always recommend that a series be read in order to have a better reading experience...even if that isn't what I did here. One other thing I'm going to recommend--and this is one recommendation that comes close to me demanding that you do it--is you reading Snared. There's nothing easy or simple about Beau Anderson and April Knight's love story, but theirs is the kind of love that is worth fighting for because it's pure and they inspire one another to not just be better but to see just how great they already are as is. Yes, Beau has issues and April is as put-together as anyone can get, so why do they work as a couple? Well, that's why their story is so worth reading. It leaves you believing just how powerful a thing love can be and that how the power of words can either build or break down one person.

Beau Anderson sits behind his drum kit and that's where he's able to let the music take over, allowing every single beat to keep his demons--those soul-destroying words that continue to whisper in his head--at bay. He may be only twenty-eight but he's already reached rock star status along with his Jaded Regret band mates, the people he considers family. He can never un-see what happened to his father when he was only five years old, and he can never un-hear the vicious words his mother said to him at the age of twelve. He's only been with one girl and she did what his parents did--she left him. He sees himself as nothing more than unworthy of love...and then he meets April Knight, a social worker who, at the same age he is, seems to have everything that he can never have. But April is no ordinary woman and she's determined to make Beau see just how extraordinary he is. Breaking down his walls and getting through years of pain, heartache, and depression is no easy feat, but if there's one thing April is sure of, it's that Beau's worth it.

I can't recall what I was expecting when I first started reading this book, but once everything was over and done with, I was left speechless. This was just one of four books that gave me the best two days of back-to-back-to-back-to-back reading that I've had so far this year. You would think that loving someone like Beau would be a burden many people would not want to undertake, and that may be true for some, but loving someone like him is worthwhile. He's a genuinely good person who loves his sister and his band and lives for his music, but yes, his depression gets the better of him at times. It takes someone like April, a person who isn't related to him by blood and who isn't tied to him by a mutual love for the creation of music, to open his eyes to how special he is. There's an important component in their story that I won't get into because that'll be a major spoiler, but trust me when I say that it was such a beautiful element that made this rock romance stand above others like it. Snared is one of my very top reads for 2016. Five-plus stars. ♥

Release Date: 10 March 2016

Date Read: 04 March 2016

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