Kristen Ashley

The Time in Between, the third and final book in the Magdalene series, will be out on August 29, 2017. More details on this book coming soon!

The Time in Between

Lover of Romance 

This review was originally posted on Addicted To Romance

This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review.


  
    It was about that moment. Me being fully present in that moment. The only one of its kind we’d ever have. Our first kiss. Our beginning. The beginning of us which was the beginning of everything.
  




  First Impressions

The Time In Between is the last and the finale in the Magdalene trilogy and I can’t believe that I am done with the series and part of me is so sad but another part of me is glad to have worked through some backlogged books of one of my favorite authors. I have really loved how this author has developed this trilogy and what we get in this story. I knew that there would be part to this one that might be tough in some aspects but I also knew that it would deliver in every way and yep KA definitely delivered a truly superb read and it flew by and this is probably one of her biggest books too at over 700 pages (according to Amazon and other purchasing sites) and I will say that I love the length of her classic KA books because this is where we really get more focus on relationship building, couple page time and just lots of HEA and I love that since most romances don’t have this and it’s more unique to this author as she tends to not drag out conflicts at least for the inner aspects of the relationship. The Time in Between is such a heartfelt novel and will touch you in ways that you probably don’t expect.


  
    He said there’d come a time when Coert Yeager realized he’d been a fool and then the world would stop spinning, that’s how fast he’d run back to her.
  



  Summary

Coert Yeager and Cady Moreland have a painful past. They once met and fell in love when they were young, Cady was caught up with bad people and Coert was working undercover, but in the end they weren’t strong enough at the time to have their HEA at the time of their painful parting. They both moved on, Coert became a sheriff in Magdalene and had a daughter,. Then Cady found her family and now it’s her turn to find her love and embrace the after the time of the time in between them being separated. But Coert is bitter at the loss of losing her, but with Cady buying a lighthouse and refurbishing it, she will find her way to reconnect with Coert and his precious daughter. And Coert and Cady will have to realize that while their past is painful, they both built lives and families since their separation, and now it’s time to embrace their happy ever after….


  
    “Now you know that I wasn’t happy because I didn’t have you,” she told him. “But I was taken care of and I was loved and there were a lot of really good times and you left me to that. You left me with Patrick. It wasn’t your choice and it wasn’t the way it should be, but it was the way it was and what came of that is beautiful. And you got your job and this Jake person and Mickey, and you got Janie. We both suffered but neither of us stopped living our lives and we got so much out of them, so, so much. And now we have each other. So we have it all. If we believe that we can have it all. And I believe. Now, are you with me on that?” “I’m with you, Cady,” he told her quietly. “Good, because I’m going to have to get angry if you slip back there again.” 
  



  What I Loved

The Time in Between was such a superb novel and one of the most heartfelt romances I have read in a while. Kristen Ashley has the capability of just winning me over so quickly and I adored the journey that I am led with on this one here. One of my favorite aspects is seeing the heroine fighting so fiercely for their relationship (which as much as I love a hero fighting for the heroine, a heroine fighting for her man —is swoon-worthy) and you see how her family is with her every step of the way and how much her late husband wanted this for her to reconnect with her brother and the man she never stopped loving. It was so interesting to see how driven she was to find her way back to Coert and he was fighting it and it was pretty funny at times because you can just see how much he wants to go alpha and throw her over his shoulder and take her back to his home and have his wicked way with her, but stands firm (for a while) and seeing how our heroine just lives her life and finds her way back to Coert in these little moments that will just strike you deep. We do get to see some flashbacks of seeing them meet and their first Christmas together and I really loved these snippets and how the majority of the story was seeing them reconnecting with each other. It was charming to see how his daughter Janie and Cady bonded, it was so adorable, and the way that Cady’s family just takes to Coert was so good. They are protective of her as she helped raise them but they view her as a sister and it was so endearing the way that they stand by her side in her journey with Coert. I absolutely got a kick out of seeing so much happy couple page time and a “splice of life” type of feeling you get with this book (which is typical of KA especially in her longer reads). And the steam in this book is off the charts which is no surprise, she always handles the spicey times so well.


  
    The only time she ever belonged to anything, to anyone, was when she belonged to you.
  



  What I Struggled With

Nothing…..everything was just right!


  Overall View

The Time In Between is a delicious finale that is a powerhouse of an emotionally satisfying read. It’s a romance that will make you believe in the forever type of love, it has a sense of majesty, deep layers, and a taste of home and family to bring your emotions to the surface in a memorable way!


  
    Now I think I understand why you’re prettier when you look at Daddy. Because what’s inside is coming out.

Samantha Emery

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★Book Basics★ 


  Genre
: - Contemporary Romance

  Series
: - 3rd in the series 

  Love triangle?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  Cheating?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  HEA? -
 (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)]

  Would I read more by this author? 
- Yes 

  Rating 
- 2


★Review★

Hmm, I really really wanted to love this. I did. But I just could not.

I find more and more, that KA loves to put her heroines up on pedestals. (and as much as I have re read the Rock Chick series, once I had noticed this theme, I started getting more and more annoyed with the whole "oh these girls are rock chicks, they are special" that runs through those books.) 

Here we have Cady, who the whole family just loves sooo much, and she pretty much seems to be the centre of the family (and I know it is her book but still). She is just perfect (as most KA heroines are, they are just better at being female then you know, the rest of us)

And we have a bit of jumping back and forth time wise, to when Cady and Coert met, HOWEVER, we never actually get to experience them falling in love, just them meeting really, then get told as second hand information that they were so in love, and in vague terms what happened to split them up. Which means 1. I never really understood what led her to actually marry her husband and then pretty much put her life on hold for him for years, and 2. I never really felt it rang true that Cady and Coert would have been in love years later, or had such strength of feeling for each other in the intervening years.

So her moving to where the hero lives, with his young daughter, just to throw up everything in his face again seemed like a totally crazy stalker move. Not to mention her husband had had Coert being followed by a PI for years. Then we have Coert and how he used her 18 years before. I am not sure these two deserved a happy ending, although maybe they deserved each other.


So when they actually, after months stopped circling each other, and Coert stopped being mean, Cady stopped being a martyr and they got back together, and it was straight away "we are soooo in love, the most in love couple that ever was" I did not believe it. Because we never got to experience them falling. Just got told it was so.

And then the drama, just pick ONE. Either a crazed serial killer setting fires and after you both OR the estranged brother and nephew with a terrible illness OR the drama bout the land around the lighthouse. Not that any of it added any excitement, it all just fizzled out rather quickly.

Then ofc we have the mentioning of previous much loved characters. Such as mentioning Chaos in passing, having some of the Rock Chick bunch appear. And I might be cynical, but in all honesty, for me they don't really appear naturally, it is more they are brought in to prop up a failing plot. As a distraction.

I mean, I read it and finished it. But KA is no longer an auto buy for me, and no loner even in my top 5 of favourite authors, and he held the top spot for years.

2 stars.

The Time in Between

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