ASHES, Abbi Glines

Smoke series # 10

Wilder & Oakley

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I liked Wilder from when he appeared in Straight Fire, so I was excited to read his story.  I read this book with a lot of fascination and some frustration.  I can’t believe a guy can be so dumb and stubborn in trying to hate a woman that deep down, he really loves.  How can you know a woman and not really know how she operates?  The question of the year!

Wilder and Oakley met when she was sixteen, he was twenty-three.  From the get-go, Wilder was entranced by Oakley’s beauty and warm personality.  He only befriended her because he deemed her too young for him.  He kept them on a friendship basis until she turned eighteen, then they started dating until she went to college and he went hostile to her.  

Soon he was marrying her stepsister whom he got pregnant, and thus starts nine years of unrequited love and enmity.  I was so angry at Wilder! He suddenly starts hating her and never thought to talk to her and clear things up? As the book progresses and the mafia business starts heating up, truths are revealed little by little.  In all events, Oakley is only guilty of loving Wilder without hope and without much pride.  Her feelings and her heart are always open and visible as she loves this man and forgives him for the way he treats her.

I loved Oakley, her generous spirit and how hard she loves.  Loved little Sarah, who had an idillic childhood thanks to Oakley and none to her mother.  As for Wilder, I could cheerfully smack him for being such an idiot.  I loved how he progressed from being a jerk to Oakley, to being grateful for making little Sarah happy, to being possessive and jealous, and finally!, giving in to the huge love he’s always had for her.

The story, as all the stories in this series, is fascinating and riveting.  I loved the glimpses we got of Gage, Kye, Hunk, and Blaise.  This is the Georgia branch of the Southern Mafia and I can’t wait to continue reading on the other guys, especially Thatcher. He gives me vibes he’s psycho like Gage!

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About the author 

Abbi Glines is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Rosemary Beach, Sea Breeze, Vincent Boys, Field Party, and Existence series. She never cooks unless baking during the Christmas holiday counts. She believes in ghosts and has a habit of asking people if their house is haunted before she goes in it. She finally moved to New England into a home that is 200 + years old with it's own ghosts. She drinks afternoon tea because she wants to be British but alas she being born in Alabama, her life in New England is as close as she will get. When asked how many books she has written she has to stop and count on her fingers. When she’s not locked away writing, she is reading, and/or watching Netflix like the introvert that she is. 

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