{"id":73626,"date":"2024-02-20T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=73626"},"modified":"2024-02-19T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:22:22","slug":"release-arc-review-nothing-but-it-all-by-adriana-locke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=73626","title":{"rendered":"Release & ARC Review: Nothing But It All by Adriana Locke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nothing But It All by Adriana Locke is live!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A beautiful, real and heartwarming story of a marriage on the edge of collapse, and a couple\u2019s fight to get back on track and find their HEA again. This is a beautifully written story with great characters and a gorgeous romance, and I loved this one!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Narrated by Amy Hall & Ryan Duncan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

From USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke comes a warm and romantic novel about a marriage in trouble, two conspiring kids, and the meaning of long-lasting love.<\/b><\/p>\n

After twenty years, the cracks in Lauren Reed\u2019s marriage are showing. She and her husband, Jack, feel more like roommates than a loving couple. What they have in common are two wonderful teenagers, Michael and Maddie, and the same wistful When did it all go wrong? Now that Lauren\u2019s decided to get on with her life\u2014alone\u2014divorce is inevitable.<\/p>\n

Not to the kids. They aren\u2019t giving up so easily.<\/p>\n

Michael and Maddie have conspired with their grandfather to bring everyone together for a vacation in the family\u2019s favorite summer getaway, a rustic lakeside cabin in Story Brook, Ohio. Awkward? Yep. A little deceptive? Sure. But as far as traps go, Lauren and Jack agree\u2014the meddlers couldn\u2019t have set one that was more scenic or filled with so many bittersweet memories.<\/p>\n

This trip is going to be life-changing for the whole family. Fourteen days of hope, heartbreak, and unexpected possibilities\u2014like maybe falling in love all over again.<\/p>\n

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Review<\/strong><\/h4>\n

4.5 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n

A beautiful, real and heartwarming story of a marriage on the edge of collapse, and a couple\u2019s fight to get back on track and find their HEA again. This is a beautifully written story with great characters and a gorgeous romance, and I loved this one!<\/p>\n

Jack and Lauren have been married for 20 years. They have two smart and funny teenagers, but with Jack completely consumed with running his own business to support the family, and Lauren left to take care of everything else, they\u2019re living separate lives. After years of struggle and loneliness, Lauren is finally ready to take charge of her life and move on without her husband \u2013 who has no idea how dire the situation really is. Until their kids conspire with their grandfather to bring their heartbroken parents together for a family vacation in their lakeside cabin for two weeks over the summer.<\/p>\n

As much as the kids shouldn\u2019t have done this, I\u2019m grateful they did. It gives me two weeks to figure this out. Because I have to figure this out.
\nI\u2019m not losing Lauren. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWe did this for twenty years, babe,\u201d he says softly. \u201cPretty sure we can do it for fourteen days.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is still a lot of love between Jack and Lauren, but life has interfered and they\u2019ve both lost sight of each other. I could absolutely feel for Lauren, her struggles and emotions are real, and I could empathise with her anger, frustration, sadness and loneliness. She has lost herself while taking care of her family, and just wants her husband and partner back. And my heart ached for Jack, a man who knew he and his wife weren\u2019t happy, but who is doing his best to provide for his family and give them a good life, having no idea how bad things actually are.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pure hell being around a woman you love so fucking much and knowing you\u2019re making her miserable.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love these two. I could feel how much they love each other, but how completely lost they both were in dealing with their situation. Lost in different ways, but they\u2019re finally together and in a place where they can open up and be honest about their issues and how they\u2019re feeling. And here is where their fight begins.<\/p>\n

Having her beside me and not being able to touch her \u2013 being afraid to even speak to her \u2013 was an eye-opener. <\/i>What is it about confined spaces that brings truth to light? Maybe it\u2019s because there\u2019s nowhere to go. There are no distractions available to avoid reality. There\u2019s no running from what\u2019s real.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They\u2019ve both made mistakes, and I felt so much for both of them. I could see where both of them were coming from, could understand how it got to where they were, and I was cheering for them every step of the way. I especially loved seeing Jack come to some pretty huge realisations, and I so admired how he accepted and dealt with it all, fighting hard for the woman he loves so much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not walking away from this \u2026 I\u2019m fighting for her \u2013 <\/i>for us.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you need from me, Lo? Ask for it. Let me love you like you want to be loved.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their kids, Michael and Maddie, are fantastic characters, and I loved their interactions with their parents. And I loved that while their parents are dealing with their relationship issues, both of them have their own encounters with love over the summer. And Jack\u2019s fabulous father is also along for the ride, bringing his own unique perspectives on love and family.<\/p>\n

This is a beautifully written story, full of raw emotion, and I loved watching Jack and Lauren navigate through their challenges and find their way forward.<\/p>\n

4.5 stars!<\/p>\n

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Meet Adriana<\/b><\/h4>\n

\"\"USA Today and Amazon Charts Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best\u2014big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.<\/p>\n

She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.<\/p>\n

Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.<\/p>\n

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