Review: Let Me Love You by Jessica Jayne / @JessicaJayne13 @XpressoReads

Title: Let Me Love You
Author: Jessica Jayne
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Publisher: Jessica Jayne
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
ARC Received From & Reviewed For: Xpresso Book Tours

Twenty-three-year-old Ren Haynes returns home after graduating college with two goals--start his engineering career and claim the heart of his parents' thirty-one-year-old divorced neighbor, Stacey Williams.

Stacey is nursing her broken heart and shattered ego. Not only did her ex-husband have an affair, he got the woman pregnant. Picking up the pieces of her life isn't easy, so when Ren taps into her need to feel desired again, she finds herself in a position she never imagined.

Can Ren help to rebuild her confidence and convince her that age is just a number?

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I truly believe one of the hardest things to rebuild in a person is their confidence. When a person experiences an event that rips through their confidence, it's a struggle to get it together again. It's even worse when you're on the outside watching them struggle because you're doing your best to help them past this hurdle and it doesn't seem to be working. At all. You could throw in the towel and walk away, give up because you don't know what else to do. Or you could hang in there because you know the struggle is worth what's coming.

Ren could have just moved on, found someone else closer to his age, someone not so broken, and lived his happily ever after. But his heart's been set on Stacey for so long. His youthful crush evolved into love and she is his everything long before he made her his everything. Reinforcing Stacey's qualities, helping her see herself through her own eyes instead of her ex-husband's, reassuring her that she is all he'll ever want, need, desire, lust after, and love from now until forever was a task he was, surprisingly and amazingly, up to.

This isn't just about sex. It isn't just about a cougar (if you want to call her that because, to be honest, eight years isn't that big of a difference to me but whatever) getting her groove back. It isn't about age. It isn't about social stigma and expectations.

It's about Ren knowing what was right and pursuing it relentlessly, tearing down the walls of Stacey's self-made prison, and proving she was worth it. She was worthy of happiness, faithfulness, and love that wouldn't waver or fade. She was worth all of it and so much more.

I love stories like this. In the contemporary romance world, these stories make my heart happy because this is real life in fiction. This is why authors write these kinds of stories because someone out there can relate, because stories like these are worth writing and sharing. They name the social stigma and proceed to prove why they don't matter when it comes to love.

Age really is just a number. And love really can conquer all.

Jessica is a born and raised small town Ohio girl, who moved to the Sunshine State after graduating from college. She graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in English. What college major could possibly be better than one that makes you read novels and write about them! Now she is thrilled to be able to share all the hot stories floating around in her head!

Jessica loves to travel and travel often! She shares her love of travel with her husband and children. She’s a huge sports fan, especially football. She ❤ the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Ohio State Buckeyes! She’s a wine-making (and wine-tasting) aficionado. She loves all music. And nothing is better than sunset at the beach!

In the journey of life, she also married a wonderful man and had three beautiful (and sometimes crazy) children. Life is always an adventure!