© ✰ Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰
• 18 February 2020
• The Sequel to #TheSimpleWild
(Which you should read before reading this one!)
From the internationally best-selling author of The Simple Wild comes the continuation of a woman’s journey to Alaska and a life she never imagined for herself.
Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can’t dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together.
But Calla soon learns that even the best intentions can lead to broken promises, and that compromise comes with a hefty price—a log cabin in interior rural Alaska that feels as isolating as the western tundra.
With Jonah gone more than he’s home, one neighbor who insists on transforming her into a true Alaskan, and another who seems more likely to shoot her than come to her aid, Calla grapples with forging her own path. In a world with roaming wildlife that has her constantly watching over her shoulder and harsh conditions that stretch far beyond the cold, dark, winter months, just stepping outside her front door can be daunting.
This is not the future Calla had in mind, leaving her to fear that perhaps she is doomed to follow in her mother’s fleeing footsteps after all.
I hope you've all read
THE SIMPLE WILD! This 2nd book is a sequel - you really should've read the first one before starting this one! It's not 100% necessary, but it would just be insane to miss out on the amazing first book!!☺
WiLD AT HEART starts four days after the first book ended.
We all remember how Jonah came to Toronto to ask Calla to come back to Alaska with him.
And she asked him for some time to think.
But of course we don't need much time - we're doing this!!
We're moving to Alaska to be with our hot angry yeti!
But of course going from being a spoiled city girl to living in the Alaskan wilderness is not the easiest thing for our Calla.
Will she give up and go back home to be spoiled in Toronto by her mom and step-dad Simon?
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT ☺
Ugh! I loved it!
I was sooo looking forward to reading this book. Even though I didn't really need it. I was pretty happy with the first book. I could've lived with that ending. But of course we always want more - I always want endless epilogues. And that is kind of what we get here. The MORE after THE END. The answers to questions we ask ourselves after almost every book we read! We never get that! I just love that Kathleen wrote this!
Only it's not this one little happily ever after epilogue. Not yet at least. We have a long way to go and lots of problems and arguments and animals and whatnots to overcome until there
might be a HEA on the horizon!
But the reader loves every single word of Calla and Jonah's journey to that happy end!
I just adored this book! I felt like being right there with Calla. Decorating their house, harvesting strawberries, chasing or running from goats and dogs and bugs and bears!
But of course we also know that Jonah can't be with her 24/7 - he has a new company to run and he's gone a lot. Will Calla survive alone in a place full of bears and crumpy neighbors and their wolf-dogs?
LOL! We sure hope so, because Calla & Jonah just belong together. But we don't want either of them to give up too much of their hopes and dreams to get that happily ever after.
AMAZING ROMANCE!
It was like a Calla-diary or one of her blog posts. We get lots of Jonah & romance too, but of course we focus mainly on Calla and how she survives her new life with new challenges and new friends and frenemies. It wasn't the
Bianca-cries-all-through-the-book thingy like the first one - but I did shed some tears! ☺ Some readers might've hoped for something a little different, but I really loved reading this. It was just so very beautiful. I never wanted it to end!
OK - that's it - what more should I say?! If you read and loved the first book - you will definitely read and love this one and if you haven't read the first one...what are you doing reading this review anyway?! ☺
WiLD AT HEART was such a beautiful Alaska romance!
A what-happens-after-The-End kind of encore for all fans of Calla & Jonah! And I loved every single moment of it!
Run to your nearest amazon for your own Jonah - this one is mine!
P.S. ... the end of this second book ... while amazing and beautiful ... wasn't really all that endish!
I hope our darling author will one day write a third book!
The Simple Wild
Wild At Heart
Calla, Yeti & Baby = Wild³?
LOL!
I want more. It was perfect, but I still want more!
♥ Excerpt ♥
November
“So
… I guess I’ll see you when I see you.”
I
can’t manage words around the flaring lump in my throat, and so I simply nod.
The past four days with Jonah in Toronto have been a blur. A bliss-filled blur
that I’m not ready to let go of yet. The Uber driver shuttling me home after
this parting will have the privilege of a sobbing mess in their backseat.
An
unreadable look flashes across Jonah’s icy blue eyes. I still haven’t grown
accustomed to seeing him without a beard, though I’ll admit I’ve enjoyed
admiring that chiseled jawline and those dimples. He takes a deep breath and
turns away, his carry-on slung over one broad shoulder, his boarding pass and
passport dangling from between two pinched fingers.
I
watch him hand his documents to the agent at the US-bound entry gate, who
spends all of one second reviewing them before waving him toward the glass
security doors. On the other side is his fourteen-hour flight home. In seconds,
Jonah is going to be out of sight, gone.
Who
knows when I’ll see him again? He flew here to tell me in person that he’s been
miserable these past two months since I left Alaska, that he doesn’t want to be
a carbon copy of my father—spending his life pining over my mother—that he
wants to find an “us” that will work. That he wants me beside him.
I
haven’t given him an answer yet, too afraid to leap.
Until
now.
I
feel the word rising inside me—an emotion about to erupt. “Yes!” My pulse
pounds in my ears.
Jonah
turns to regard me with a raised eyebrow.
Am
I crazy? Maybe.
But
I’m fully committing to it.
I
take a step forward and swallow my nerves. “I’ll come back to Alaska.” Because
being with Jonah again—laughing and reminiscing, having him in my space, waking
in his arms—has only confirmed what I’ve suspected for months: I’m deeply in
love with him, and living in Toronto when he’s not here doesn’t make sense to
me anymore.
I’m
done saying goodbye to this man.
Jonah
leaves the line and retraces his steps to close the distance, dropping his bag
by his feet. It’s five a.m. and we’re creating an obstacle, forcing travelers
to weave around us on either side to get to their flights. Their grumbles touch
my ears, but in this moment, I don’t care.
The
severe frown cutting across Jonah’s handsome forehead as he stares down at me
says he doesn’t, either. “Are you serious?”
I
nod. “Yeah. I mean, if you’re serious about moving to Anchorage—”
“When?”
he demands to know, his voice suddenly gruff.
“I
don’t know. As soon as I can?” How long does it take to pack up your life and
move to a different country? Granted, a country I was born in and still have
citizenship with but haven’t lived in for more than two decades.
His
eyes spark with determination. “Come for Christmas.”
I
laugh. “That’s like a month away!”
“So?
What else you got goin’ on?” It’s a challenge, delivered in Jonah’s typical
blunt style. “I’m not going to see my mom in Oslo anymore. And Aggie and Mabel
would love having you there. Especially since it’s the first one without Wren.
You should come.” His Adam’s apple bobs with his hard swallow. “Come.”
Somewhere
in between his words and his tone and the way he’s looking at me, I hear the
silent plea. In truth, the idea of being near the people closest to my late
father for the holidays sounds more appealing—and more feasible—by the second.
“Okay?” I say on an exhale, my voice shaky.
↓ Links to the Book & Author ↓
Book #1
K.A. Tucker writes
captivating stories with an edge.
She is the
internationally bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water
series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, The Simple Wild, Be
the Girl, and Say You Still Love Me. Her books have been featured in national
publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine,
Publisher's Weekly, Oprah Mag, and First for Women. She has been nominated for
the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance 2013 for TEN TINY BREATHS and Best
Romance 2018 for THE SIMPLE WILD. KEEP HER SAFE made Suspense Magazine's Best
of 2018 list for Romantic Suspense.
K.A. Tucker currently resides in a quaint town outside
of Toronto.
