After All the Wreckage
Intensely suspenseful and Heart-stoppingly Beautiful
I will never get over the way LJ Evans uses such beautiful and magical language to create such stunning pictures of characters, relationships, and events. And she paints such an incredibly vivid story of the roles fate and destiny play in bringing Rory and Gage together and to life in After All the Wreckage.
Evans elevates the solid elements of her romantic suspense with heart-wrenching intensity, increasing the connections between her characters and her readers. Weaving in a hint of the paranormal only ups the ante in the plot, creating a sense of intrigue that delves beyond the mere facts into layers of trust, belief, and reliability. And as those layers are built into the story, they’re built into the relationships between the characters as well.
It is impossible not to feel connected to the characters. Evans lays their souls bare, puts them through unimaginable circumstances, and brings them through it together to a truly beautiful HEA. Gage and Rory are each fiercely independent, used to relying on themselves for everything, but together they’re a force to be reckoned with, their chemistry off the charts.
And it’s so much more than just the connection between Rory and Gage. It’s the already solid and deep bond between Gage and his siblings, in addition to the found family surrounding him, that pulls on every heartstring, creates the catalyst for the story, and reveals just how intense and life-altering love can be.
Evans integrates multiple storylines and threads pulling Rory and Gage closer and closer, culminating in a stunning resolution encompassing multiple elements of their lives separately and together. After All the Wreckage is a true standalone novel set in her fictitious town of Cherry Bay. If you’ve read other books set there, you’ll love the little connections she builds in, and if you haven’t, you might find the allure of Cherry Bay too hard to resist and seek out her backlist books set there as well.
