We are so excited to bring you the Release Week Blitz for Molly McAdams’ TO THE STARS! TO THE STARS is a contemporary romance novel being published on February 9th by HarperCollins’ William Morrow Impulse imprint and is the second novel in Molly’s Thatch Series.
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About TO THE STARS:
In the second standalone book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Molly McAdams’ Thatch series, Knox Alexander must convince his long-time love Harlow Evans that they’re meant to be together.
He promised to wait for her.
She told him he was wasting his time.
Not waiting for him ended up being the biggest mistake of her life.
When they were younger, Knox Alexander swore to Harlow Evans that he would wait for her to turn eighteen so they could be together. But that was two and a half years away, and Harlow couldn’t ask him to give up all the fun and thrills of going away to college for her. As the years passed, Knox remained a constant in her life but when her eighteenth birthday came around, Harlow’s heart belonged to someone else.
Every day for the last four years, Harlow has been haunted by that fateful choice. And though he may appear unaffected by what happened in their past, Knox has always tried to fill the void Harlow left. But when he comes stumbling back into her life and refuses to leave, will Harlow finally let him into her heart…?
Setting my cup on the table in front of me, I searched through my purse for my iPad, and smiled to myself when I checked to find there was still a charge on it. I set an alarm on it to know when to leave in case I was able to escape my reality for a little while, grabbed my coffee, and gently sat back in the chair as I tried to get into the book I’d been reading last week on my Kindle app. I had more than enough time to read during the days, that wasn’t the problem. It was whether I could push away my real life enough to let myself enjoy the fairytale that determined if I ever read.
More
often than not, I ended up staring blankly at my iPad long after it
had shut itself off from lack of use as I thought about whatever was
going on with Collin, or my own fairytale I’d given up.
Like
now, I realized, when I noticed my screen was black again. I
didn’t even know how long I’d been sitting there just staring at
it. I took a deep breath in, preparing for a silent sigh out.
My
breath caught in my throat when a body next to me blocked the sun,
and a deep, fluid voice asked, “Why would anyone waste their time
only loving someone to the moon…”
…when
they could love them to the stars?
He
didn’t finish, and I didn’t say the words out loud. But
everything stopped around me for heavy seconds. The rise and fall of
my chest halted, I no longer heard the background noise, music, and
voices in the coffee shop … all time seemed to stand still as I sat
there trying to assess whether I was dreaming or not.
“Harlow
Evans,” he said softly, and I let out a shuddering breath as
everything came filtering back in. “The last person I thought I’d
see when I woke up this morning was the girl I’ve been waiting
seven years for.”
My
head snapped to the left, and my soul ached when I looked at Knox
Alexander for the first time in four and a half years. Time had
changed him in amazing ways—and at the same time, nothing about him
was different at all. Those dark eyes began to lock on mine, and I
quickly looked away from them. I didn’t want to see what they would
tell me, I didn’t want to know what they would find.
This is my first Molly McAdams novel and confess I was emotionally
exhausted after reading To The Stars. Harlow and Knox's story
is mesmerizing, tragic, yet breathtakingly beautiful despite the
angst. Told from alternating POV in both the present (2010) and past
(2008), I anticipated the reading to be jarring for myself, but
refreshingly it wasn't.
The young protagonists meet at a party and are instantly attracted to
each other. Approaching his eighteenth birthday, Knox Alexander
presumes that Harlow Evans is the twin to the girl hanging out with
his friends; a similar age, only to find out she's only fifteen years
old. Unperturbed, they decide to continue seeing each other, against
the wishes of those closest to them, with a promise that they'll
belong to each other when Harlow turns eighteen too…
“I want to love you to the stars.”
Misunderstandings, poor communication and some interference lead
Harlow to head in an entirely different direction once she comes of
age.
What happens next is disturbing. Tragic. Horrific.
Collin Doherty is a monster. A cruel manipulator. An abuser. A once
vibrant young woman turns into a shell of her former self...scared
for her life and for those closest to her.
The author really digs deep to convey the utterly destructive
relationship between Harlow and Collin. It is heartbreaking and
incredibly uncomfortable to read. The abuse scenes feel realistic,
which for me made them very tough to read. Yet to understand and
empathise with Harlow, you need to understand her thought process,
which Ms McAdams has managed to achieve. It is emotionally
exhausting. Yet there is hope. Knox. He's not perfect and has also
made mistakes. Still his love for Harlow is as strong as ever and
believable. What a guy! The supporting characters are also
integral to the plot. It is interesting to observe how their
perceptions of both Harlow and Knox as circumstances change and
shocking truths are unfurled.
To The Stars is a poignant story that will stay with you for a long
while. It is thought provoking. It's intense. It's one of the best
books I've read. Ms McAdams you have a new fan.
5 stars
***Arc
generously received courtesy of publisher William Morrow via
Edelweiss***
And don’t miss the first book in the Thatch Series…
LETTING GO
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Molly grew up in California but now lives in the oh-so-amazing state of Texas with her husband, daughter, and fur babies. When she’s not diving into the world of her characters, some of her hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and long walks on the beach … which roughly translates to being a homebody with her hubby and dishing out movie quotes. She has a weakness for crude-humored movies and fried pickles, and loves curling up in a fluffy comforter during a thunderstorm … or under one in a bathtub if there are tornados. That way she can pretend they aren’t really happening.
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