True Abandon is one of those books that had me racing back to the couch on a Saturday in between my parenting/adulating to find out what happens next. Although, I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to like Jackson as a romantic hero in light of the whole teenage sex tape thing. But Colette delivers a wonderfully emotional second chance romance full of heart and soul and forgiveness and redemption.

I love how the book is split into Part 1 in NYC during the hurricane, and Part 2 in Hawaii, where Jackson is bound and determined to win Tricia back. Colette does an amazing job of not only describing in vivid detail how ruined Tricia’s life was by the tape, but how destroyed Jax was as a result of his bad decision as well. The guilt he carried for having hurt the most important person in his life was indeed a major albatross, and together, Jackson and Tricia piece each other back together, get over the hurt of their past, forgive themselves and one another and find a beautiful ending.

Apparently, True Abandon is a book in the author’s Abandon series — I never would have known that, however, as it reads like a true standalone. I never felt like there were plot holes i was missing for not having read the previous books in the series. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.