Review: When I'm Gone (Rosemary Beach, #11) by Abbi Glines

4 stars! ****

Author: Abbi Glines

Title: When I'm Gone (Rosemary Beach, #11)
 

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines comes the next new adult novel in the Rosemary Beach series, in which we meet Mase, a Texas heartthrob first introduced in Take a Chance who comes to Rosemary Beach to stir things up.

I had an urge to fix all her problems. Which was stupid. She was doing fine without me. But something about those big eyes…

Mase Colt-Manning has always preferred his humble life as a Texas rancher to his birthright as the son of a legendary rock star. In fact, he rarely visits his father’s rarefied world in Rosemary Beach, especially if it means bunking at his vile half-sister Nan’s house—until one visit leads to a chance encounter with a young, gorgeous house maid who awakens him with her off-key but spirited imitation of a country music star…

Reese Ellis finally has her freedom. After escaping a lifetime of abuse from her parents and classmates for an undiagnosed learning disorder, she seizes the opportunity to be a house maid to some of the richest families in Rosemary Beach. But her job is in jeopardy when she causes an accident at the home of her most important client, Nan Dillon. When a hot, half-naked stranger with a cowboy’s swagger comes to her rescue, she’s intrigued—then afraid once he shows his own interest. Reese has never met a trustworthy man in her life. Will Mase be any different?

It took me a while to read this book. One of the reasons was that I wanted to wait until the conclusion was out and the main reason was that I was still gutted from reading Kiro's Emily. That book cut me open and I since Mase is his son I feared (and hoped) that there will be a lot of Kiro in this book.

But once I started reading I wondered why I waited so long! It was great. Maybe because I had no exceptations and didn't really care about Mase. I'm still not #crushinghard on him, but he's gained my respect and I'd be happy if I had a brother like him.

Mason is Kiro's son, but grew up with his mother and stepfather in Texas on a ranch. He's overprotective of his family. He's proud, strong and his father's fame didn't affect him in any way.



Reese had a bad childhood. Her mother was a bitch and her father used to beat her and then moved on to even worse things. Even before that she had rough times. She's dyslexic but no one cared enough to give it a label except the one that says "stupid". And the cherry on top? When her mother found out, she didn't try to help her, didn't started calling cops on her husband.. No, she started hitting Reece and threw her out of the house. Which might be the best thing she had ever done for her.

Couple of years later she lives in Rosemary Beach cleaning houses. She and Mase meet when he's visiting his sis Harlow. She cleans both Nan's house where he stays and the one where Harlow with Grant lives. They keep meeting and she wakes something inside of him. His protectiveness.

Why her? Why was she affecting me like this? I had seen hot bodies before and gorgeous smiles. It was more than her outward appearance. Beautiful women only interested me for one thing. Reese had reached something else inside of me and squeezed it tight, from the moment I ran into the room and found her sitting on the floor surrounded by broken glass.

It's not long and the sleeping bear that sleeps inside of Mason wakes up in a full force. She's his and he's gonna do anything that will ensure that she'll know it too.

I was giving you time. You seemed skittish. I didn’t want to push you. But if you’re going on a date with someone, it’s gonna be me, Reese. Not fucking playboy Thad.

I really enjoyed this one. It wasn't my favourite of the series (because nothing can beat Rush's and Blaire's story), but it was pretty close.

I liked how their relationship prgressed slowly but surely. They started out as friends and later on it evolved into something much more.



The way Mason took care of her and how he made her feel safe was satisfying to read. He didn't rush her and they took their time in sexy times until she was ready.

I’m going to wash it all away. I swear to God, I am, Reese. One day, all you will see or remember is me and what we feel like together. I swear.

Sometimes I was bit annoyed with Reese's good two shoes attitude. She accidetaly broke a mirror and injured herself and she insisted that she's fine and blahblahblah. And guess what it needed five stitches. Yeah. Completely fine.

And she jumped to conlusions way too fast and believed basically everything people said. When Nan told her she wants 5000 dollars for it, she went and gave her all of her savings. Who does that without checking it really cost that much?

I love you. I won’t leave. I’m here to make you take me back. I’m empty without you.

That particular quote is said by Reese after she jumped to conlusion once again.

Rush was there. Thad was there. Grant was there. Jimmy was there. Nan was there. Woods was there for a while too. All the familiar faces were there and I loved seeing them again. It was like a reunion after long time.



The ending was a cliffhanger but not a bad one. But I'm still going to read the next one. Hell, I think that if Abbi Glines wrote a book that consisted only of her shopping lists I'd read it too.