READING: End of Day (Jack & Jill #1) by Jewel E. Ann

Publication date: August 17 2015
Published by: Jewel E. Ann
Genre: Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Mystery
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Jessica and Jude Day witness their funeral and that of their parents a few yards away from mourning family and friends. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.
Six months later, two thirty-year-old misfits with elite self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.

Jackson celebrates his new beginning by embracing his job and wiping his cavalier past clean with a temporary oath of celibacy. But Jillian’s past is branded into her soul—the deaths, the insanity, Dr. Luke Jones, and the need to make her lovers bleed. Her chance for redemption comes in the form of a next door neighbor, one Senior Master Sergeant Monaghan. He’s sexy, dangerously alluring, and riddled with emotional issues from years of service. He’s also … So. Damn. Grumpy. 

Their mission is simple: Let go, start over, don't kill anyone, and pray that nobody wakes the dead.

This book is really twisted, unbelievably hot, deeply emotional and overall 100% magical!

Ann does an amazing job building both relationships, AJ/Jillian and Luke/Jessica. We get to know Jessica through very emotional flashbacks with Luke, and also get to witness her transformation to Jillian through present scenes with AJ. Add quick-witted and snarky sense of humor, and you’ve got yourself a remarkable book.

Potential readers: Please keep in mind that these characters are very, very damaged, complicated and because of that, callous and harsh. I don't blame if you if you instantly dislike them. However, they never pretend to be something else to gain sympathy. They own up to each hurtful thing they say, to each evil and wicked thing they do. They never ask for forgiveness because they know they don't deserve it, but neither care for judgment. They are just people who you can either try to understand and trust, or people you absolutely hate, and that’s why this book is so incredible in my opinion: by exposing every tiny piece of these people's souls no matter how ugly, it will make you care for them so deeply and fall in love with them so hard, your head will spin!

Readers that hated the characters-I get it. They make it hard for you to tolerate them, they never let up.
Readers who chose differently-prepare for an epically emotional journey that will have you on the edge of your seat, turning those pages like your life depends on it.
That, in a nutshell, is End of Day.