Ask Me Again: Book 1

Ask Me Again #1

by Kara Kinsley

This is Book 1 of the 3 book "Ask Me Again" series.

Devin Grant had his future all figured out. Fight fires in his hometown until he could save the money to go off to college and become an Arson Investigator. He was going to leave his small town behind for something bigger and better. Until someone from his past walked back into his life.

Tricia Green had dreamed of leaving her run of the mill small town for as long as she could remember. All she wanted was to get away from the dead end life she lived with her alcoholic mother and never present father. More than anything, she wanted to head off to college and pursue her dream of being a physical therapist. But fate had other plans. Plans that would change her life forever.

Genres: Romance

62 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 18, 2016

Reviews

[Lorraine Montgomery · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kara Kinsley is an author with whom I was unfamiliar until I came across this novella.  She has written 20 books, all romances, and there is definitely an emphasis on faith.  The full title is Ask Me Again - An Inspirational Romance - Book 1 .  I think I was attracted by the cute cover (not the one showing here but Goodreads doesn't offer a different edition).  What I didn't realize was this is not book 1 in a series but book 1 in a trilogy — something I don't normally read.

Tricia and Devin were childhood friends and have reconnected after a number of years when Tricia's family had moved to the other side of the county.  Both are taking courses to help them look to a brighter future and both are parenting their mothers who have turned to substance abuse to cope with their lots in life.  Devin has been working as a firefighter and is taking college courses to get into university; he helped Tricia get a job in dispatch with the fire department to enable her to support her dream of becoming a physiotherapist.  For now they're just really good friends but each is feeling something more that they're afraid to explore in case they ruin their friendship.

This is a good plot with lots of surprises (most of them not good) and each character is trying to be supportive of the other through the trying times.  Tricia, in particular, is praying but not really certain someone is listening.  I tend to feel a bit cheated when a "book" only take me a couple of hours to read and it turns out you have to read two more of them to get to the outcome.  The three parts of this trilogy (I haven't seen it referred to as such anywhere else) would probably make a decent paperback novel.  I won't call it a cliffhanger because the story is too predictable to make me want to get the rest of the story.  I also felt the book could have been edited better.  The characters are cute and the plot decent enough.  If you're interested, I'd wait until all three are available and read it right through.  Disappointing.

[Courtney · Rating 1 out of 5]

First of all, the cover on this novel was not the one that I thought I was buying when I purchased the novel. The original novel is of a man and woman facing opposite of each other and only showing from the knees down (with clothing and standing up), I have no idea where this cover came from when I started reading the novel on my kindle.

Any who, when I read a novel with "Inspirational" in the title, I typically think of clean and uplifting writing; that is not what I found in this story. Foul language, drugs, alcoholics, and adultery are just a few of the things I encountered within the first three chapters; with a lot of each of the listed items. This is not my kind of writing, and I stopped reading the book before I even got a quarter of the way into it.

[Kelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ack! Wish I would’ve checked goodreads before starting this one. Marketed as an inspirational novel, which is generally synonymous with Christian fiction. This was not the cover art that shows up on the kindle book either. It didn’t take take long for me to close it out and delete. Not what I thought I was getting.

[Richard Goodrum · Rating 1 out of 5]

The story starts out with two, codependent, young adults with absentee dads taking care of their respective drug addicted moms. Then their lot in life gets worse from there. And their self-doubt only makes the good things seem bad. The story has so much promise but never makes it passed the doom and gloom.

Haunting. Scary. Tragic. Twisted. Unpredictable.

[Anita Rodz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me encanta la historia!!! Es una pena que nuevamente, otra autora deje la historia inconclusa para continuar en un próximo libro. Soy fan de la lectura, pero no puedo darme el lujo de comprar todos los libros que me atraen. Pero es una buena historia!!! 💜🩷💜

[poppingthoughts · Rating 3 out of 5]

cliffhanger at its best..

review to follow..

[Haffina · Rating 2 out of 5]

No resolution is quite irritating.

[Kimberly Westrope · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story was okay. It's not that I didn't like the story, it just wasn't anything spectacular. I like the way the various family issues and such are dealt with in a realistic way, but I just didn't really feel drawn to the characters. I didn't feel much empathy with them. Sometimes you read a story and you are so caught up in it, it's like you are in the story, actually witnessing the events. This one was not like that for me. I just felt like I was being told a story that I had no connection to.

[Kamdon Laman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book.

I have just finished book 1. I liked it a lot. Starting book 2 now. Hope it is as good as the first one. Thumb up.

[Vevo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just finished..a really good book

[Lane · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book until its abrupt ending. The characters have real problems which cause them to make decisions a certain way. It was easy to like them both, though I had a problems with the heroine's quickness to jump to conclusions. But I get it. The main characters are caught in a torrential downpour of life's harshness. This book has the potential to pull at your heart.

This was an easy and QUICK read. I was irked by the quick ending, and when I saw the price tag of the roughly 65 paged installment set to 2.99, I rolled my eyes. I won't be paying for that, good story or not. I have books in my queue with quadruple the page count, that I bought for .99 or 1.99! I felt the price of the other two installments were ridiculous. Maybe if all 3 parts were put together...

Oh well, I took stars off because there was no end since it just stopped. They are free on Kindle Unlimited, but I don't have that either. Maybe one day.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book was well written & I enjoyed the story. But, I was extremely disappointed to realize that it was a cliffhanger!