There are a few things you can expect from pretty much any Molly McAdams book: love, tears, heart-wrenching drama, and a few more tears. I See You doesn’t disappoint.
If you’ve ever read a Molly McAdams book before, you’ve experienced the joy, the heartache, and the inner conflict that comes along with her incredible love stories. It doesn’t matter if your favorite is Taking Chances, Show Me How, or even if I See You is your first foray into Molly’s writing, you know that finding love is never easy for her characters. The struggles in I See You make it one of Molly’s best books yet.
In addition to the lovers in her books, there are always supporting relationships that further complicate matters. One of the most intriguing and complicated parts of I See You lay outside of the triangle and is beyond difficult to read. That one particular relationship helped drive me even closer to the central characters, seeing how two people could have such drastically different reads on another person.
About ‘I See You’ by Molly McAdams
Futures are uncertain, unpredictable — like ink spilled across the purest surface. Nearly imperceptible ripples move and flow until a unique stain is formed. The ink is permanently embedded in the surface…
During one wild night in college, Jentry Michaels is a tidal wave of ink that brands Aurora Wilde’s soul. An unparalleled stain she can’t forget despite the many months that have passed — and despite the distraction she’d hoped she would find in her new relationship with Declan, the charmer who captured her heart soon after. Jentry has irrevocably touched her soul, and he is intertwined in her present and future in ways she never fathomed. Now Aurora is faced with keeping that night hidden, though it feels as if the ink has indelibly etched their story across her skin.
When Declan is confronted with his own personal demons, Aurora must decide if she will continue to hold tight to their relationship and a safe, reliable future with him, or if she will turn to Jentry — the guy she can’t forget no matter how hard she tries…
‘I See You’ review
Picking up a Molly McAdams book is agreeing to surrender to being emotionally brutalized in all the best ways. Her books are never simple, always complex, and refuse to shy away from true, deep emotion. I See You is no different. Declan, Aurora, and Jentry’s story uses a chance meeting and an end-dated affair to weave an emotional tale that leaves tears in your eyes and hurt in your heart long after you’ve set it down.
While there is most definitely a triangle throughout I See You, it never truly feels equal on all three sides. Jentry and Aurora are the focus here, and their love was branded on their souls in a matter of moments. The night they met was a turning point in both of their lives, but they both believed they were simply experiencing the burn of a night of mind-blowing sex.
When the eyes they looked into, or the words they exchanged, couldn’t be forgotten months after, they both knew that this wasn’t just an affair. However, they left themselves no option but to live apart thanks to their near absolute anonymity. Aurora tried to push on, and Jentry returned to his military career, hoping that time would be the balm to soothe the burn the brand left behind.
Thanks to a charming twist of fate, Aurora was trying to move on with the one person that could return this man to her, tipping her world on its axis permanently and irrevocably.
I could probably go on to write another 2,000 words on the complications of Aurora and Jentry’s love affair, but their story is told in its entirety in I See You, so you should definitely go read and experience it for yourself. There are a lot of other relationships in I See You that inform much of what makes this book unique and engrossing.
First of all, Declan. He’s the third line of the entirely lopsided triangle. He is simply the balancing point that allows Aurora and Jentry to find their second chance. The story wouldn’t be the same without him, but it really isn’t his story at all. We know that he cares for Rorie and we experience and share his hurt when the truth comes out, but this was always meant to be about Aurora and Jentry’s boundless love.
The other incredibly important character to this story is Linda Veil. She gives us someone to project all our anger and frustration onto as the story moves forward. She starts out prickly and gets increasingly worse as complications exponentiate, but in the end, we learn that she, too, has more to her than meets the eye. I See You would not have been the story it is without the troubling matriarch, and we are grateful that Molly thought to include her in this tale.
I’ve never met a Molly McAdams book I didn’t like, and that hasn’t stopped with I See You. Prepare for emotional turmoil, but know that things will always come together in the end. Like any good romance, all the complex pain and agony leads to love that is simple, yet greater than any other force in the world. It can be hard to remember that love is powerful when life hands you a million examples of violence and destruction, but I See You is an incredible reminder that for every disaster there’s another sunrise full of hope and promise for the day to come.
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