Pulled

By: A. L. Jackson

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Melanie Winters and Daniel Montgomery shared a love they believed bonded them together for life. After a tragic loss, overwhelming grief and misguided guilt distorts the truth, and their relationship ends in unanswered questions. For nine years, they drift through life, each unable to forget the one who holds their heart. Now, when their lives again intersect, will the power that drew them together be enough to heal the wounds from their past?

Pulled is a story of attraction and separation, of a love so strong it refuses to give up even when all others have.

©2011 A.L. Jackson (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Offically the "Number 1" book in My Library

Spellbinding, intense, heartbreaking and I LOVED this book. Get two boxes of tissue and prepare yourself to be swept away into the most intensely beautiful love story I have ever listened to. Like I said, this is number 1 in my library. No it's not a sexually graphic novel but its a spiritually graphic one. It's tragic but beautiful. It's love like every woman wants to find. I'd gladly give more than one credit for this book! Yes it's that good. I'm actually shocked it hasn't got off the charts reviews.

✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫

This has always been one of my favorite AL Jackson book but I never reviewed it. I decided it was time for a re-listen since it's been years and I still loved it as much this time. While the story is a little "unbelievable" it still made my heart shine in the end. It's a beautiful tragic love story with a lot of hard situations. I'm sure I will listen again in a few years cause it still remains a favorite of mine.

The narration this time was surprising for me, the first time I think I was pretty new to audio but this time I thought it was very obviously in the beginning of Andi Arndt's career because she didn't give the men their own voices, it was all just read in her normal voice. She is great at male voices now!

i'm on the fence with this one...

i love fairy tales. honest. i do. i love You've Got Mail and Never Been Kissed and Say Anything. i'm a romantic, but...

i found some things really lacking in this book and as much as i tried to LOVE it, and some parts i did, i still had a tough time overcoming some of the plot points. in fact, i found myself rolling my eyes and mumbling about "oh give me a break!"


the one biggest annoyance?

when melanie goes to see daniel (after being pulled from him by her idiot parents) and goes to visit him, walks into the house and does NOT see daniel (who was taking a shower). instead?! instead she listens to a jealous wannabe girlfriend, stephanie, telling her that he's moved on and daniel no longer wants melanie. so melanie LEAVES (after flying all that way to see daniel) without actually SEEING him. i really had a HARD time believing that ANY real lover/girlfriend/soulmate WHATEVER, would not say, "no. i'm here to see him. i will WAIT in the living room until he comes out of the shower."

and then the next nine years of idiocy wouldn't happen and we wouldn't have the book. lol

so of course i have to go along for the crazy ride that is this book Pulled and continue rolling my eyes when this sort of stuff happened...over and over and over.

these are my questions that really never got answered....
--why did melanie's husband hate her so much?
--why didn't she ever try to talk to her dad and rectify that situation?
--why didn't she just PICK UP THE PHONE and call daniel?
--why didn't daniel EVER try to find her?
--why didn't erin tell daniel the truth rather than waiting NINE years?

there's so many annoyances with this book that i have a difficult time giving it five stars. i'm one of those reviewers that LOVES to give a book five stars if i LOVED it. i just can't do it in this case and that makes me sad because it had potential. it really did.

however, with that said, the love between these two is palpable. i felt it every time they were together. their love was perfectly written. sometimes i was upset that melanie didn't do or say the things i would, but i have to remind myself that she's young and naive.

as for the narration? i am being absolutely truthful when i say that after being an audible member for over six years, that this was one of the finest performances i've ever listened to.
she was brilliant. there could have been a male voice for daniel's parts, but in all fairness to andi, i thought she was OUTSTANDING in both voices----as well as the others. i will look for her work from here on out....

in the end, i'll give Pulled three stars because it's a great book but needs some work, but a solid five stars for narration!

A BEAUTIFUL EMOTIONAL TRUE LOVE STORY

Any additional comments?

This story was so unexpected. I bought the book because of the narrator but I got a great story for 4.95 and it is worth 5 credits. I loved every minute. This is not a typical live story. YOU WONT BE DISAPPINTED. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Not what I expected

While I love AL Jackson's books enormously, this one was not my favorite. There are several reasons for this- if the couple was so crazy in love at the early part of the story, why did they allow themselves to be separated after they lost their baby? I mean RIGHT AFTER! C'mon! Also, I realize that the heroine was depressed, but she flies to LA, meets a guy she finds creepy in the airport, lets him have sex with her and then flies him home to her parents the next day and immediately marries him? This was a girl who had only had sex with the hero in her entire life. No way I could find that believable. Overall the story had way too many flaws in the characters thinking for me to relate to them. The narrator did a good job with what she had to work with, though sometimes the voices were too similar. She has come a long way with her narrative abilities since this book. Overall it's a decent story, but I found the characters to be kind of weak minded, lol.

Wow

Amazingly beautiful love story about a young boy and girl who actually have a love at first sight epic high school romance. It’s clean, it comes off as real and it’s relatable... in a way.

A horrible tragedy comes to them both and that all you get! If your interested read/ listen to this romance story and I promise you won’t be disappointed. The story is beautiful, the writing is wonderful and the narration is perfect. This book is a HEA!

I accidentally came across this book by listening to another book by this author and I’ve recommended it to friends.

Pure

What a sweet, heart pulling love story. So much tenderness…a little dark, but pure joy and love.

Intense book

This book was a good. I would recommend it. True love pulled apart by a horrible accident. Almost a decade later their undeniable love finally draws them back together unexpectedly. Sadly, they realize all those years separated could have been avoided. An abusive controlling husband is the biggest barrier for them to find that happily ever after.

good read!

Very good love story full of angst. If you like that type, this one is for you.
Narrator was excellant and the story moved along nicely.

This one is tough to review

Narration by Andi Arndt was great BUTT... The direction of this book was horrible as the story kept shifting from past to present and also from the character Melanie to Daniel and half the time you didn’t know who was saying what?
This book as reviewers said before needed two narrators from each point of view.
The story was good, I liked it, but it was very sappy, Long and drawn out at times.
I had a lot of eye rolling with so much deep thought into each scene.
Some of those just took SO long.
I like A.L. Jackson and I know this is an older book and she has gotten so much better with her writing. So I give this book a little leeway on that note.
There are a lot of “Oh Please??” Sigh... in this book.
So many factors of this story are so far fetched as to why each character didn’t do more to get back together again.
But its a romance novel and that’s how it goes.
Don’t spend a credit on this one, if it’s on sale, it’ll be a good buy.