Title: Falling for Jillian (Love Under the Never Sky, #3) by Kristen Proby
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: January 27th, 2015
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Format: E-book, 368 pages
Synopsis: From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby comes the third romance in the Love Under the Big Sky series, featuring a veteran struggling with PTSD and the one woman who can help him recover—and learn to love again.
Jillian thought she was a city girl through and through; the fast cars, high fashion, and glamour—she loves it all. But when her ex tells her he’s having a baby with his new wife (after Jillian struggled for years to get pregnant), she hightails it back to Montana to cry on the shoulder of her best friend, Cara.
But in truth, Jillian would rather be comforted by someone else…specifically Zack, Cara’s brother-in-law. Zack is a veteran of the Iraq War who came back to the family ranch to raise his preteen son after the boy’s mother took off. He’s struggling to re-establish a relationship with his son, and warding off the demons of PTSD, which still haunt him. The last thing he needs is bold, brassy Jillian…but why can’t he keep his hands off her?
Review:
I’ve adored every Kristen Proby book that I’ve read (which is all of them) including the first two books in the series. I was wondering how this was going to measure up compared to the previous two books, and I’m happy to say that it met all of the expectations that I had going into this.
The relationship between Jillian and Zack is first hinted about in Loving Cara, and that made me even more excited to read this book, In book one we only learn the basics about Jillian and Zack and neither was present for most of the book. So when I started reading Falling for Jillian I was very interested in learning more about both of them, I feel like their backstories were such a big part of them in how they affect them in the present, so that was excited to delve more into.
Jillian is such a strong character, she’s someone who’s been through so much from both her childhood and her adult life. I do wish that this book went more into the side of her marriage that didn’t involve her trying to get pregnant. I understand from what Ty has said, her husband didn’t treat her right even before she was trying to get pregnant, I wish we could have gotten more of her opinion on that side of her life, I would have liked to know what her reasoning was for staying with him as long as she did.
Zack was a character I thought would have been more impacted by his time overseas than what was shown in this book. I feel like has more PTSD from his marriage to his ex-wife Kensie than he was from his service. One thing that I was excited about was that Seth was more present in this book and we get to learn more about what he went through in the time with his mother.
There will be a spin-off series which is why I wanted to read this before it comes out at the end of February, you can tell where she left that open. I knew who the characters were going to be so I immediately picked them out in this book. I’m hoping to start the new series as soon as it comes out.
