Book Review: Pen Pal by J.T. Geissinger

This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This is at NO extra cost to you

The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence:

I’ll wait forever if I have to.

It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know.

Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply?

You.

I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong.

We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day, the letters stopped. When I found out why, it was already too late.

Dante was at my doorstep.

And nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next.

My thoughts:

As a seasoned romance reader I went into this story just knowing how it was going to play out and I was so wrong. This story had me all over the place and the second twist just about did me in and I had to stop reading. If you can’t do what Aidan did for Kayla for me then I don’t want you. At all. 

“C’mon, little rabbit. If you’re good, I’ll feed you a carrot later on.” 

At first I keep thinking of Elmer Fudd, but eventually this grew on me and I’m okay with that. 

“Hey, bunny,” he says softly, his eyes shining with adoration. “Did you miss me?”

“You found me,” I whisper, crying tears of joy.” 

*insert ugly crying meme here* 

As much as I enjoyed this story I had one issue and I just want to stress that just because someone has a mental illness that doesn’t always mean they are violent. We really need to stop painting mentally ill people in that light.