Review :: Living Out Loud :: Staci Hart

LIVING OUT LOUD, the next in Staci Hart's Austen Series, is LIVE! I adored this modern love story inspired by Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. Everything about this book had me smiling and swooning! Hart takes us back to the world of Wasted Words and gives us a love story you will not soon forget!

   

Living Out Loud Staci Hart 

Publication Date: February 1, 2018 

Cover Photo: Perrywinkle Photography 

Cover Design: QuirkyBird Designs

 

When Annie Daschle arrives in New York City, the only thing she can control is her list. Not her father’s death or the loss of her home. Not the hole in her heart or the defective valve that’s dictated so much of her life. But she can put pen to paper to make a list of all the ways she can live out loud, just like her dad would have wanted. See the city from the top of the Empire State Building: Check. Eat hot dogs on the steps of The Met: Check. Stand in the middle of Times Square: Check. Get a job at Wasted Words: Check. Two things not on her list: Greg Brandon and Will Bailey. And just like that, she finds herself caught in the middle of something she can’t find her way out of, with no clear answers and no rules. List or no list, she realizes she can’t control anything at all, not even her heart. Not the decisions it makes, and not the moment it stops. *Standalone contemporary romance Inspired by Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.*

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Review: 

This review has been so hard to write. Why? Because this book was excellent and nothing I've written has done it any justice. At all. 

Hart delivers a very realistic take on a naive girl and a boy who wants to protect her innocence. Greg sees the world in a whole new way when he looks at Annie. She is the very definition of sunshine and rainbows - despite her life experiences. Through Annie, he is able to see more than the hectic nature of life in NYC. He sees HER and how she experiences life so freely. 

Having suddenly relocated to NYC, Annie finds that there is more to life than books and music and living quietly. After losing her dad, she decides to "live out loud" and she does. She takes that mentality with her through this series of events. She wants to experience every thing she can, within reason, and does it enviable gusto. The things she wants to do aren't silly or exorbitant - they're simple and very Annie. 

I love how Greg does his best to keep her happiness at the fore even when it's detrimental to what he wants. He absolutely adores Annie and is willing to sacrifice much of himself in order to see her reach her goals, even if it isn't with him. 

This book feels like a very quick read. I absorbed it as one does air, effortlessly. I soaked in the words and let them stay with me as I read them, as I do in every Hart novel. 

To give this book five stars feel inadequate. I wish I could give it more.

Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life -- a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can't forget that. She's also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She's been a wife, though she's certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She's also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she's been drinking whiskey. When she's not writing, she's reading, sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.

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