Available Now! Release Day Review: Wayward Son by Jay Crownover

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𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐧 by NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover is LIVE!!! This is the final book in The Forever Marked series and can be read as a stand alone.

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 What to expect:

✔️Forced Proximity

✔️Racer

✔️Opposites Attract

✔️Friends like Family

✔️Second Chance

✔️Angst

✔️Happy Ever After

 Blurb:

She’s the only girl he’s ever loved.

Zowen Archer has been in love with Aston Wheeler for as long as he can remember.

She’s perfect, except for the glaring fact that she fell in love with his best friend instead of him. For years, he loved her from afar with zero expectation. He told himself that as long as Aston was happy, his feelings for her didn’t matter.

However, Aston isn’t nearly as happy as she seems. And by the time Zowen figures things out, his life takes a drastic turn for the worse.

Now that Aston is single and laser-focused on making up for the lost time between the two of them, Zowen is doing everything in his power to avoid her. He’s convinced that if she never wanted him when he was at his very best, there is no chance in hell she could care about him now that he’s at his absolute worst.

He’s the only boy she’s willing to wait for.

Time has never been on Aston Wheeler’s side.

She spent too long pretending to be someone she was not. She lost herself in a first love that everyone, except her, thought was perfect. She wasted a lot of time trying to convince herself that she should be happy when she was anything but. She watched for years as the one person who made her feel like her true self drifted further and further away.

Finally, when she’s ready to reach out and grab the one-of-a-kind love that Zowen Archer has always silently promised her, it’s too late. Zowen is taken away, and when he reappears in her life, he makes it clear there’s no going back to whatever they might have been.

Good thing for Zowen that Aston is patient and doesn’t mind waiting for him to have a change of heart. It’s the least she can do after all the time he spent waiting for her.

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What I thought about Wayward Son

 It's no secret that I am a huge fan of the Marked series and the second generation Forever Marked was a terrific way to revisit the characters in both of these series.  I've loved reading about the children of the Marked and where they ended up as adults.  While I'm sad to see this series come to an end, Wayward Son is a terrific ending to the Forever Marked series.

Zowen Archer has found himself in some serious trouble, and being an Archer and Rome's son, he does the righteous thing and serves his sentence.  He's now released from jail and looking to deal with the next challenge in his life -- to return to being a free man.  However, there is one thing he isn't ready to deal with and that is Aston Wheeler, the girl, now woman that he's always loved.

Aston Wheeler loves Zowen too, so there isn't a lot of conflict there -- and with some help from Daire Archer, Zowen and Aston get their chance. 

I really enjoyed this story.  It's an easy read, not a ton of conflict, just two people finally getting what they both need and want.  I did love the low-key sort of story.  It's just a sweet romance and I thought it was the perfect ending to this series, and wraps up the two Archer generations in a pretty bow for all the fans of the series, and these interesting characters that Jay Crownover has created.  

So, I'm giving this five stars because it's a perfect ending to this series.  I loved Zowen and his deep sense of character, and Aston is just perfect for him.  Great finale!