Then, she gives you his Eden, his paradise, in the form of his heroine. Jackson makes you empathize with him through his self-flagellation. He believes he cannot have good in the world. Trent’s denial of love and light comes from his inability to forgive himself of his past. This is the underlying theme that twists and turns through Give Me A Reason. I love the message of forgiveness: forgiveness for past wrongs, forgiveness from others, but most importantly, the forgiveness of one’s self. At just the right times, Jackson gives you more of them, but everything feels precarious even to the last 5 percent of this book. Little by little, she teases at your own emotions as Trent and Eden move back and forth between denial and attraction. Moving forward for most of the story, Jackson keenly punches into their forward motion with the details of the past, and she builds her story like an expert mason does a brick wall.
The oscillation in the denial of their feelings for each other pulls you in while the broken chronology of her story holds you in its thrall. Jackson’s writing is as much poetry as it is prose, and she entices you into her story with punctuated fragments to mimic punches to your soul and words that feel like the overwhelming emotions of Trent and Eden.
And Give Me A Reason does not disappoint in presenting Trent and Eden as the yin to the other’s yang.īeautifully constructed, Give Me A Reason is lyrical in its presentation. Jackson writes darkness into him which means, based on the rules of romancelandia and Jackson herself, he needs light and life to counter his shadows. LIke her Sunder Guys or her Falling Stars heroes, Trent, her newest hero, is the epitome of the broken hero. Her newest story, Give Me A Reason, is no different. She writes the heck out of them and causes you to fall deeply for them because their brokenness and belief that they don’t deserve the heroine is attractive. Jackson knows that she corners the market on the tortured hero.
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