Taking the Leap (River Rain #3) by Kristen Ashley: My Book Review

𝔸𝕙𝕙𝕙.. 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕖.. 𝔸 𝕄𝕌𝕊𝕋 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕚𝕧𝕖 ℝ𝔼𝔸𝔻 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕪𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕂𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝔸𝕤𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕪 𝕤𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕖 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕒𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕 💗💗

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🏷️Book 2 in the River Rain series with Alexandra and John 'Rix' Hendrix

🏷️Office/Co-workers Romance

🏷️An ex-firefighter hero with a disability but still with all the fire & oomph, strong personality

🏷️A timid and shy but sweet heroine who's part royalty and from a wealthy family.

🏷️Huge Drama and Gossip galore happening and yet balanced with strong friendships and friends that are family

🎟️🅱🅾🅾🅺 🅿🅻🅾🆃 🆂🆄🅼🅼🅰🆁🆈 🎟️

Rix doesn't do relationships but just casual hook-ups after a tragedy not only took his legs while working as a firefighter but it also scarred him when his ex fiancé left him for that.

Alexandra always has had a crush on Rix but thinks he's not into her. She's shy and doesn't know how to make a move on such an awesome guy.

But in a weird twist of events, what starts as Rix acting Fake fiancé for Alexandra turns unexpectedly deep.

🅼🆈 🅵🅴🅴🅻🅸🅽🅶🆂 : 🥰

Kristen Ashley is back with another phenomenal and Sensational book with a freaking hot hero and a heroine that just swept in and made me her Insta best friend and all the feels that made me smile and oh so into this book, I didn't want it to end.

I was both reading slow and fast so into Rix and Alex and everything that was happening.

But the way these two from only interacting with each other as coworkers and then slowly coming close together and becoming much much more, of battling their many issues and hanging onto the ride while coming closer together was such an addictive feeling to witness this happen.

Also, I loved all the gossip and drama Alex's family makes to the dramatic twist at the end that had me gasping 😳😳 and smiling at the same time.. A wild ride for sure. 💋

Ahhh... I seriously am gonna miss them oh so much. A must read to experience all the heat and magic that Rix and Alex create. Loved loved this one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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“𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙢 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙪𝙮,” 𝙄 𝙢𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙣𝙤 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙘𝙤-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧.

“𝘼𝙬𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚,” 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙥𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙙. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙣. 𝙋𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨. 𝙍𝙞𝙭’𝙨 𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙠. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙝 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙝. 𝙃𝙚’𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢. 𝙎𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙠.

“𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙪𝙮, 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭, 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢. 𝘿𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮. 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙝. 𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚.”

“𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩. 𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩. 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙣. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙙. 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚. 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙖 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨. 𝙄𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙪𝙚𝙩, 𝙘𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚.”

𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙥, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙛𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙨𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜.

“𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣.” 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙, “𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜?” “𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙙𝙖𝙮, ‘𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣,’” 𝙄 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩. “𝙉𝙤. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙙.”